Facilitator
Maureen Deary
Further Education and Skills and Independent Schools Inspector, Strategic Adviser in Governance, Leadership, Management and Quality
Maureen is a current practising further education and skills inspector and lead inspector for the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI). She inspects and provides consultancy support across all FE and Skills and HEI provision and a wide range of sector areas sectors. She works with a range of colleges, prime and sub-contractor/partner training provider organisations and is a consultant and adviser in quality development support and improvement work and has supported organisations for over thirty years in the state, private, schools, further and higher education sectors. . She has lived and worked overseas in the education sector and has held representative sports coaching posts to national level. Maureen has worked for a number of awarding bodies approving new centres, developing qualifications, acting as a Chief and Centre Approvals Verifier/Moderator and Principal Examiner and QCF qualification designer, whilst living in the UK and in Hong Kong and Asia.
Her specialist sector areas are: health and social care, early years and childcare, sport, leisure, travel and tourism, business, management and law, employability, English, and maths. Maureen is an expert in apprenticeships and is a governance board member of a number of national regional and small workplace providers and including one national Academy Trust.
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Guest Speakers
Ian Smith
Consultant in FE and Skills, and former Ofsted Senior HMI
Ian Smith is a qualified teacher. He is a former Ofsted Senior Her Majesty’s Inspector and has 20 years recent experience in inspection, having worked as a senior manager for the Adult Learning Inspectorate and then moving to Ofsted. He gained extensive senior management experience as a senior leader in a general further education college and holds a degree level management qualification and a Postgraduate Award in Inspection and Evaluation. Ian has wide experience spanning over 35 years in all aspects of further education and skills and across provider types. Ian has managed a national quality improvement service and has experience of managing education programmes for young people, apprenticeships, community learning and adult skills provisions. He has carried out international work in quality improvement. Currently Ian is working as a consultant and advisor in the Further Education sector.
Guest Speaker
Roger Chapman
Head of the Matrix Standards, The Growth Company
Roger Chapman, Head of Service – The Matrix Standard at The Centre for Assessment Ltd, a subsidiary of The Growth Company, on behalf of The DfE Standard for Information, Advice and Guidance Services.
Guest Speaker
Vikki Sylvester
Owner and Managing Director Acacia Training Ltd, a national workplace learning provider
Vikki’s career started in nursing, and subsequently moved into education. She is the CEO of her own business Acacia Training Limited, a 20 year-old work-based learning provider delivering across the UK. She is also an Executive Director of Acacia’s parent company, MBH Corporation Plc which is a global company listed in Frankfurt where her role is to ensure the group companies are represented and driving strategic direction. Other roles include Chair of Governors for a first school, Vice- Chair of the Staffordshire & Stoke Skills Partnership and more recently a board member on the Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce.
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