AELP Autumn Conference 2015 Organised by

Thursday, 5 November 2015 | ILEC Conference Centre, London


 
Speakers

Main Conference Speakers

Chris Swingler

Associate, Association of Employment and Learning Providers

Chris joined AELP in 2005 as the National Projects Development Manager where she managed and facilitated the delivery of Government funded projects. She later joined AELPs Senior Management Team as the Director of Business Development. Chris is now working with AELP and its partners on a range of technology based programmes and Worldskills and Skills Competitions UK.

Carolyn Lewis

Work Based Learning Consultant, Vocational Innovation Limited

Carolyn Lewis is a work based learning consultant specialising in the application of information and learning technologies in the post 16 sector. Prior to starting her own companies, Vocational Innovation Ltd and the eLearning Marketplace Ltd, Carolyn spent over 20 years’ in the FE and Skills sector where she combined her experience of the management of government funded programmes, quality assurance as an external verifier and her IT experience in the private sector, with her passion for developing innovative approaches to delivering work based learning.

Carolyn managed the JISC remit for supporting the work based learning sector in England and Wales and she was also Projector Director of the £2 million London Assessor project, which trained and qualified over 600 individuals to join the work based learning sector in London. In the past few years Carolyn has been leading a variety of projects and working with numerous training providers to enhance and bring efficiencies to their apprenticeship provision through the use of innovative solutions. Most recently she has founded the online open marketplace for e-learning, www.elearningmarketplace.co.uk.

Stewart Segal

Chief Executive, AELP

Stewart Segal was appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer of AELP in 2013. Stewart has worked in the funded work based learning sector for over 20 years and in particular has supported AELP since its formation. Stewart worked as an independent consultant within the training sector, working with a number of training providers and colleges specialising in business development and funding issues.

Following a background in HR and general management in the private sector Stewart joined Hertfordshire Training and Enterprise Council in 1994 as Chief Executive until 1998 when Stewart joined Spring Skills as Chief Executive in 1998. Spring Skills was then the largest independent training provider in the sector involved in the delivery of a range of programmes in the service sectors such as retail, customer services, hospitality and business administration.

Bob Harrison

He has had extensive experience in schools and colleges as a teacher, senior manager, Principal and  Governor. He has worked with Head teachers and senior leaders in developing leadership skills for the National College of Teaching and Leadership College Principals Qualification and the Building Schools for the Future Leadership programme.

Bob is also Vice Chair of Governors at Northern College and a governor of a Trafford school.
Bob was made an Honorary Life member of CGLI for services to Vocational Education following 12 years as Chief Examiner.

He has been Toshiba’s Education Adviser for 14 years and is a writer, presenter and researcher on mobile learning, digital technologies and next generation learning. Toshiba is the “lead employer” in the Nottingham University Academy of Science and Technology.

Bob was a member of the British Computer Society/Royal Academy of Engineering working group which redrafted the ICT National Curriculum to make it more “ambitious and challenging”. He also chaired the computing expert group established by the DfE to support teachers and teacher educators in the transition to the new computing curriculum, and is now a member of UK Force (UK Forum for Computing Education).

He is currently the Chair of the Teaching Schools New Technology Advisory Board, a HE/Industry/Schools/DfE/NCTL group which aims to ensure that the next generation of teachers have the necessary skills to prepare children for their lives as workers and digital citizens in the 3rd Millennium.

Bob was a leading member of the Further Education Learning Technology Action Group and is now a member of the Ministerial Educational Technology Action Group chaired by Professor Stephen Heppell.

Bob regularly visits the Palo Alto campus of Stanford University to research current developments and is particularly interested in the “education’s digital future” at Stanford and is a judge at the Stanford Education Technology Expo. Bob is also a judge for the BIS Technology Strategy Board Learning Technology-Design for Impact fund. Bob represented the DfE at the INTEL STEM International conference in Jerusalem when he presented on the new national curriculum in computing.

He is a Board member of the National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education (NIACE) and the UfI Trust and is a Judge for the BETT Awards and TES FE Awards.

Bob has recently been invited to join the BIS FE and Skills  Area based review advisory group helping to reshape the FE landscape towards a more digital future.

Kerry Boffey

Director, Adult Learning Improvement Network

An experienced quality improvement consultant working within the FE Sector for many years and a former Ofsted inspector, Kerry is an advocate of the use of information technology within quality improvement that impacts positively on learners’ experience. She has recently developed an innovative new software solution – SOAR – Specialised Observation & Analysis Reporting, to revolutionise lesson observations brining providers’ data to life, creating insight and benchmarking across the FE Sector that has never been seen before, enabling providers to evidence improvements and input that will provide invaluable at inspection and with the new Common Inspection Framework.

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Stella Turner

Head of Qualifications and Delivery, Association of Employment and Learning Providers

Stella is responsible for keeping a ‘watching brief’ on matters related to qualifications and curriculum development. She represents AELP on groups such as the Skills Funding Agency’s Qualifications Approvals and Governance Group and the BIS Vocational Qualifications Forum plus various Awarding Organisation Consultative Committees. 

Since joining AELP Stella has managed a number of projects, including work related to the Qualification Credit Framework (QCF) Readiness Programme, Functional Skills Support, Unit Delivery Trials, the review of FE Teaching and Training Qualifications and the promotion of Higher Level Skills. More recently she has taken on responsibility for overseeing and managing work allocations within AELP’s delivery team.

Stella has always worked in the education and training sector and has over 10 years experience of working for a work based learning provider. As a Senior Training Manager for a large training provider in Bristol, she was responsible for a team of ten, overseeing and contributing to the design and delivery of a range of both government funded and commercial programmes including IT courses, Apprenticeships and NVQs in a variety of occupational areas. 

Prior to joining AELP Stella worked for the Awarding Body OCR as a Customer Support Manager. This role involved working with local authorities, schools, colleges and training providers providing information and guidance on qualifications and government reforms.

Carlton McDonald

Deputy Head of the Department of Computing and Mathematics

, University of Derby

Carlton has worked in HE, lecturing Computer Science at Coventry University (2 years), The University of Derby (25 years) and The University of Technology Papua New Guinea (PNG - 2 years). In that time he has also been a freelance trainer working with, amongst others: Coca-Cola (PNG), Microsoft (Sweden), Schlumberger (UK), Valtech, NHS NPfIT. His specialisms are software engineering, web development and, more recently, mobile development. His involvement with the NHS NPfIT was to develop the training materials for change management of the business processes within NHS management structures.

Carlton’s teaching style is interactive because it is his belief that people have a variety of learning styles, and therefore activities should vary so that whatever the learning preference of the individual learners, they will gain something from a session.

Carlton is currently the Deputy Head of the Department of Computing and Mathematics at the University of Derby with primary responsibility for the student experience. He enjoys learning computing technologies and tries to ensure that he is always at the cutting edge of computing developments.