According to the late Professor Elsa Goveia, most of the undergraduates reading history in the 1950s at UCWI had never been formally taught West Indian history as a separate subject, and were astonished by what they discovered in their university classes.
While he was still a postgraduate student in London, Augier had caught the attention of the examiners at the University of Cambridge and was invited to play a role in the preparation of a West Indian history paper for high school students in the region. Later, as a member of the History Department at UCWI, Augier worked alongside the Department of Education to arrange several conferences to help history teachers collect teaching material and to improve their command of the subject matter. The first of these conferences took place in 1956. The Making of the West Indies (1960) and Sources of West Indian History (1962), both co-authored by Augier, were published to ensure that teachers and students had access to textbooks that covered the new content.
With general acceptance of the idea that the Cambridge examinations should be replaced with a local exam that was regionally relevant to Caribbean identity, Sir Roy began working behind the scenes to help build the framework. In 1969, he was one of Jamaica’s representatives at a foundational meeting which took place in Montserrat. With the signing of the Agreement in 1972 and the Supplementary Agreement in 1973, the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) was formally established.
In fact, it can be argued that his work with CXC was something he was destined to do.
Augier served as Chairman of CXC between 1986-96. He also served on various Governance Committees until 2017. Over the years, he made immeasurable contribution to the establishment of CXC as the pre-eminent standard for secondary certification in the Caribbean.