Key career points:
- Has a teaching background since qualifying in 1975.
- Qualifications include: Teaching Certificate of Education (1975, Birmingham University); B.Ed. and M.A. (Ed.) (University of Southampton, 1986 and 1989); Diploma in Primary Management (C.N.A.A. 1990).
- Taught for 20 years, 10 years as a headteacher in England.
- Worked as a part time tutor counsellor for the Open University for six years during this time.
- Ran own business with a business partner for eight years, inspecting and advising schools.
- On joining Cambridge Education in 2005, worked with early years, primary, secondary, maintained and independent schools in a training role and as an Ofsted lead inspector.
- Participated in English sections 5, 8, 10 and 162a inspections, working to tight judgement criteria.
- During and since working for Cambridge Education, has been deeply involved in school reviews, inspections, advisory and consultancy work for counties, districts, schools and governors, in the UK and overseas.
- In the last 10 years, has worked abroad on various projects. The largest was a three-year assignment in the US, based in Florida. Led the project which involved training and assessing several hundred principals and senior staff in lesson observation techniques to judge the quality of teaching and learning accurately.
- Worked in Sharjah and Fujairah in the UAE with Cambridge reviewing several state schools and helping them form plans for improvement. Similarly in Kuwait.
- Completed much training and development work on a wide range of school improvement issues, such as in leadership and management, meeting accreditation criteria and self-evaluation techniques.
- Part time over the last four years, carried out over 100 quality reviews of Norfolk primary schools in the UK.
- Most recent work has involved helping Chinese schools continue their development with international dimensions in mind, such as developing ‘project based learning’ systems.