Ofsted: Embedding Equality and Diversity in Learning Activities
 
Webinar Facilitators

John Landeryou

Webinar Chair, AELP Consultant

John is director of his own consultancy company specialising in strategy and quality in further and higher education and skills, working with organisations in the public and private sector. He works on a part time basis for AELP and is involved in a range of sector wide initiatives. He is also a member of the National Improvement Partnership Board. Immediately prior to this he was Director of Further Education in the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) where he was responsible for advising ministers on further education and lifelong learning policy. Previously he was Director of Improvement in DIUS.

During his earlier career he had extensive experience of inspection and quality improvement work, designing inspection regimes in the ALI and heading up Ofsted’s post-16 and learning and skills work. He has also held senior positions in education business partnerships, local authorities, and a Chamber of Commerce Training and Enterprise, having originally started out as a teacher.


Marina Gaze HMI


Deputy Director, Further Education and Skills, Ofsted

Marina Gaze is Ofsted’s Deputy Director, Further Education & Skills, and is responsible for the continuous development of Ofsted’s policy and methodology in this area. Previously, she was a Senior HMI responsible for Ofsted’s further education and skills work in the East Midlands and Ofsted’s judicial services inspections nationally. Marina has 13 years inspection experience of work-based learning, judicial services, colleges and community learning. She has 10 years of teaching experience as a programme director and director of a learning provider and six years as a chief external verifier. Marina developed and delivered Masters’ degrees in inspection with the Institute of Education and University of Warwick.