Facilitators



Fairfield Associates

Carolyn Medlin

Director, Fairfield Associates Limited

Carolyn works as an inspector, practitioner and freelance consultant across the Further Education and Skills sector. She is actively involved in teaching, consultancy, research and resource development. Following a role as Head of Quality Improvement and Curriculum Development for a large ACL provider, Carolyn’s freelance work focuses on teaching and learning, and helping to develop practitioners’ skills in areas such as:

  • outstanding teaching, learning and assessment
  • observing learning
  • short notice inspection planning
  • quality improvement, including writing judgement-rich evaluative self-assessment reports and developing learner-centred continuous quality improvement processes

100% of all organisations Carolyn has worked extensively with have improved at least one grade following an Ofsted inspection.

Carolyn also continues to work as a tutor in work-based learning, consistently helping her learners to achieve highly successful outcomes.





Maria Navarro HMI

Her Majesty's Inspector, Ofsted

Maria has been a Further Education and Skills HMI with Ofsted for almost 10 years. Prior to that, she held senior positions in Learning and Development within two major world-wide retailers. She has a Master's Degree in Global Marketing and speaks several languages. At Ofsted, she inspects across a variety of settings, including work based learning, employer provision and a wide range of Children’s, juvenile and adult judiciary settings.