Derrick is currently an independent management consultant. He has 17 years consultancy experience having developed and led the education advisory teams for KPMG LLP and Deloitte Management Consulting.
Prior to entering consultancy, Derrick had 15 years’ experience in education with his last post being as a Vice Principal of a large College in the North West of England where he was responsible for the areas of Finance, Personnel, Estates, MIS, Central Admissions, Marketing, and Catering. He was Clerk to the Board for 14 years, and also taught in the Faculty of Business and Management at Level 2 to Level 6.
Lois has EQA'd for City and Guilds for over 30 years, initially alongside a full time permanent job delivering teacher education in further and higher education and latterly whilst working as a consultant for the Education and Training Foundation and other educational institutions. Lois is well known as a teacher educator across the UK mainly because of her role as lead presenter for a number of initiatives such as the introduction of new teaching qualifications and the QCF, and was contracted by LSIS in 2013 to write the 'new' post compulsory teacher education qualifications which became the City and Guilds 6502 suite.
Lois currently EQA's teaching and assessing qualifications in the Middle East and Far East and in the north of the UK. On behalf of the ETF, Lois has worked on the English and maths pipelines, and is now currently involved as Programme Assessor for their OTLA project.
Paul has worked in training and development in the FE and HE sectors for 20 years. A seven year period as a Senior Manager in an FE College, included management of work based apprenticeships in Health and Social Care, Business & Administration/Customer Service and Product Manufacturing. An early career in the Probation/Prison Service supported the development in his health and care knowledge and practice and his teaching/training skills, which have been well utilised across the City & Guilds group working with a range of customers including adult care and health vocational sectors.
I have been working in education and training since 1991 in teaching and management roles. I have worked in various settings including Offender Learning, Work-based Learning, Adult Education and for private training providers.
My skills, qualifications and experience include:
- Consultancy and training
- ESOL and English programme delivery with specialisms in embedding and contextualising
- ESOL and English Subject Specialist Qualified
- Language Learning (MFL)
- Staff Development Programmes
- Internal & External Quality Assurance
- Employer ESOL focussed projects and resource development
Originally from an Early Years and Play work background, I have 30yrs occupational experience at Executive Level in Health and Social Care, Childhood and Youth Programmes and Early Years in the public, private and the voluntary and community sectors across Wales, Northern Ireland, England and Internationally. During this time I have also been involved in the development, delivery and quality assurance of work based learning and vocational technical qualifications.