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Trevor Luker Trevor Luker is a co-founding Director at the
LHAA and joined the company in July 2013. He is also a board member of Vision
Workforce Skills Limited (a subsidiary of West Nottinghamshire College) and
also a member of the Association of Employment & Learning Providers
Strategic Forum. He previously held the post of Managing Director for
Pearson Work Based Learning in the UK having previously held the
post of Commercial Director for the Awarding Organisation Edexcel (a Pearson company). He has also managed Edexcel's
International’s business, was Chair of Awards UK, a joint venture
company between Edexcel and SQA. He has a wide-ranging experience
in devising and implementing business strategy, driving strategic and organisational
change and delivering operational excellence and consistently achieving growth
within market leading organisations. He has also worked in the UK and
overseas and holds a Masters in Business Management and has lectured on
Business Studies
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Pip Kings Pip has worked in the further education sector for over 30 years starting, as so many others have done, as a volunteer in adult education. Her background is basic skills, teaching literacy and supporting ESOL and numeracy learners. She has managed a work-based learning provision (youth and adult trainees) and has had leadership experience of inspections. She worked for the London Learning and Skills Council from 2004 as the Regional ESOL Lead and moved to the Institute of Education in 2007 to take up the post of Director of the Learning and Skills Unit. She has taught on the IOE PGCE courses for post compulsory teacher training and is now Development Director of the National Research and Development Centre for adult literacy, ESOL and numeracy. Additionally she manages LONCETT, one of nine regional Centres for Excellence in Teacher Training in further education. Funded by the Education and Training Foundation, LONCETT employs three regional leads for English, mathematics and SEND in London. It also manages the London provision of mathematics and English enhancement programmes. |
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Naomi Nicholson Naomi Nicholson is Ofqual’s Director of Strategic Relationships for Vocational Qualifications. She has been at Ofqual since 2011, working on the regulatory framework and risk analysis. She is now part of the leadership team developing Ofqual’s regulatory approach to vocational qualifications. Her career started in the voluntary sector as a support worker at a women’s training centre. She went on to work as legal advisor to asylum seekers and refugees and then moved into the civil service in 2009. At the Government Equalities Office she developed a cross-Government strategy on the violence against women third sector and then came back into education, working on National Curriculum test development at QCA. |
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Stephen Ram Kissun I am responsible for the recruitment of training organisations into AELP membership and growing membership up to 1,000 members over next two years. Remit includes the promotion of AELP branded communications/associated member services, marketing services, and social media activities; development of new services/benefits for members, fostering new business development opportunities and building new collaborative arrangements with key stakeholders involved in learning, skills and employability provision. |
