Sir Frank McLoughlin CBE
Associate Director, ETF

Sir Frank is one of the leading voices in the FE and Training sector. He has run one of the most consistently successful colleges in the country and advised on policy development at a local, regional and national level. Sir Frank was Chair of the highly influential Commission on Adult Vocational Teaching and Learning (CAVTL). He was awarded a CBE in 2009 and a Knighthood in 2015.

Chair
Alison Morris
Head of TVET, ETF

Paul Grainger
Co-director of Centre for Education and Work, IoE/UCL

Paul is Co Director of the Centre for Post-14 Education and Work, UCL. He leads professional development, research and dissemination on formally assessed and post compulsory education, and is presently working on models of college leadership. He maintains a brief on the responses of institutions and professionals to policy change, and advises on strategic planning, management and governance development, institutional and system leadership, principally in the Further Education sector. Previously Paul spent thirty years in further education. In the 90’s, as Director of Curriculum at S E Essex College, he set the strategic context for a major new university campus in partnership with Essex University. More recently, as the Principal of a college in Liverpool, he created a new sixth-form campus.Paul has been a core member of the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training. He has also been an inspector, and a Chief Examiner for the City & Guilds. His recent research has been on issues that derive from the Commission for Adult Vocational Teaching and Learning, working on projects to explore the potential of Teach Two, the Two Way Street, and on apprenticeships. At present he is supervising research for the Further Education Trust for Leadership on leadership development within high skills ecosystems skills eco-systems. 

Jay Derrick
Director of Initial Teacher Education and CPD, IoE/UCL

Kathryn Osborn
Director of Quality and Compliance, Hawk Training

Kathryn has a wealth of experience of apprenticeships and vocational learning, having first worked as an assessor in 1997 with Marks & Spencer. She subsequently held similar positions with Lambeth College and TBG.

Kathryn joined Hawk Training in 2002 and has worked in both a training and operational capacity on substantial contracts with both the LSC and SFA. She oversees all aspects of quality and compliance for Hawk which supports almost 3000 learners each year on vocational learning programmes as well as employers across a range of vocational sectors in both the public and private sectors. These sectors include Business Administration, Children and Young People’s Workforce, Customer Service, IT, Learning and Development, Management and Warehousing and Storage. We help young people to secure apprenticeship positions whilst supporting organisations to enhance their succession planning and develop and upskill their existing staff.

 Following inspection in September 2013, Hawk became the first independent learning provider in the country to be awarded ‘Grade 1 – Outstanding’ by Ofsted under the new Common Inspection Framework. Kathryn has twice represented Hawk as an Ofsted nominee – in 2008 and 2013.

Kathryn graduated with a BA Honours degree from the University of Surrey and holds the D32/33 and D34 awards, the 7047 Certificate in Further Education and a Level 5 NVQ in Management. Kathryn is also a qualified dance teacher and is married with two young children.

Crawford Knott
Managing Director, Hawk Training

Crawford joined Hawk Training in 2001 and has worked in both a training and commercial capacity. He assumed the role of Managing Director in 2016 from his previous role as Commercial Director. Hawk currently supports almost 3000 learners each year on Apprenticeship and CMI-accredited management programmes and hundreds of employers across a range of vocational sectors in both the public and private sectors. Sectors include Business Administration, Early Years, IT, Learning and Development, Management, Team Leading and Warehousing and Storage. Hawk enables young people to secure apprenticeship positions whilst supporting organisations to recruit apprentices and enhance their succession planning. Following inspection in September 2013, Hawk became the first independent learning provider in the country to be graded ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted under the current framework.

Crawford graduated with a BA Honours degree in International Business Studies in 1996 following study at the University of Northumbria and Fachochschule Düsseldorf, Germany.

Following graduation he moved abroad and worked with a number of multinational organisations in a training capacity in Madrid, Spain. Upon returning to the UK in 1998 he took up a post in the City for equity data firm I/BE/S (now part of Thomson Reuters) working in both data analysis and client support. Crawford then moved to global online advertising organisation, Doubleclick, where he supported and helped provide training solutions for clients in the EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa) region before joining Hawk Training. He is a fluent speaker of both Spanish and German having lived and worked in both countries.

 Crawford is married with two children.

Dominic Scorer
Functional Skills Lead & Tutor, Hawk Training

Dominic joined Hawk Training in 2011 and has worked in both a training and operational capacity on substantial contracts with both the LSC and SFA. 

Dominic has a wide background in hospitality and catering management; he has worked in Switzerland, London, the Channel Islands and Australia as a classically trained chef. He has managed restaurants and licensed premises. In 2003 he took the plunge with his then partner and bought a restaurant in Adelaide, South Australia in which he employed 12 unskilled college students and trained them personally in food and beverage operations. He sold the business in 2007 and returned to hospitality management and again started a small catering business in 2010.

Teaching and training are Dominic’s passion and he has delivered apprenticeships across many qualifications in many diverse locations, including London’s leading hotels to Government departments. He is versatile, adaptable and has a keen business sense which is evident when dealing with our key employer partners

Dominic’s focus now is to manage and drive improvements in the teaching and learning of functional skills, to all apprentices on programme, via online media and platforms. He has developed new ideas and systems to communicate with learners and tutors in order to keep pace with the rapid pace of our distance learning provision.

Dominic has a Diploma in Hotel and Catering Management, the advanced diploma in Learning and Development, plus PTLLS at Level 4. He is currently undertaking the Diploma in Education and Teaching.

Dominic lives in Surrey with his wife and young daughter.

Beverley Capewell
People Development Manager, The Co-operative Childcare

Beverley has been working within the Early Years and Further Education sectors since 1991.

She has held varying roles across the Early Years Education sector, commencing her career in nursery and primary schools, leading into teaching in the post compulsory sector in 2002. She then worked her way up in varying management roles to finally becoming Faculty Head of Early Years, Health and Social Care and Counselling within a large Further Education college located across Oxfordshire. In this role she oversaw numerous Further Education Ofsted inspections, oversaw quality of delivery and managed complex and large government budgets liaising closely with the LSC and Local Authorities. Education and professional development of herself and others has always been her prime focus and passion.

Beverley joined The Co-operative Childcare in 2014 and has worked in both an operational and strategic capacity. She currently oversees People Development within the Childcare Group, which comprises all aspects of formal training, Apprenticeships, strategic Further and Higher Education partnerships and Talent Management.

Beverley holds an NNEB in Early Years, and graduated with a Certificate in Education from the Oxford Brookes University, she also holds the A1 and V1 awards in assessing learners.

Beverley lives in Faringdon, Oxfordshire and is married with one teenage son, three grown up step-children and three grandchildren.

Jenni Sutton
Senior Development Manager, Fashion Enter and FashionCapitol.co.uk

Jenni joined the company in 2006 when social enterprise Fashion Enter was incorporated and has seen the company grow and develop from a team of four employees to what it is today. As the Senior Development Manager Jenni is responsible for all new business strategic decisions and works across all functions of the business.

Today Fashion Enter Ltd has two distinct areas of operation - Production and Training. The Factory provides large scale bulk production alongside the Fashion Studio for sampling and small production runs. Then most recently as an extension of the already successful Stitching Academy, the UK's first Fashion Technology Academy was launched enabling learners to train for qualifications in manufacturing in a live factory environment.

Fashion Enter's 7,500 square foot Factory in North London manufacturers 7,500 garments a week for leading retailers such as ASOS, Marks & Spencer and Finery and a Fashion Studio for sampling and small production runs for LFW designers and new business startups. As Senior Development Manager Jenni plays an active role in the business support for new and emerging designers ensuring the next generation of fashion creatives receive the right guidance they need including mentoring, seminars and workshops and advice and promotion via Fashion Enter's sister company FashionCapital.co.uk - the UK's portal for the industry. The site fully supports the fashion industry as a one-stop online resource with a dedicated team of journalists, mentors and industry experts to ensure users receive a unique and comprehensive insight into the world of fashion, manufacturing and business.

Fashion Enter is also England's largest training provider for the Fashion and Textiles Apprenticeship Programme offering the Level 2, 3 and 4 pathways in Fashion and Textiles. Jenni leads to recruitment of apprentices for employers such as M&S, River Island, New Look, Jigsaw, Topshop, Topman and asos.com as well as many smaller fashion companies including Marios Schwab and Lipstick Boutique. In 2013 Fashion Enter launched the Stitching Academy with financial support from ASOS.com. The Stitching Academy provides accredited qualifications for a six-week intensive qualification students can learn a range of stitching skills and production methods.

In 2015 Fashion Enter launched the Fashion Technology Academy with investment of £470,000 from Haringey Council and support from ASOS. Opened in March 2015 the fully equipped FTA includes qualifications across the entire garment life cycle incorporating pattern making, fabric inspection, fabric laying, fabric cutting, quality control, machine maintenance and stitching. The academy is the first apparel manufacturing training academy in the country to operate alongside a live factory environment ensuring that students gain exposure to real manufacturing whilst training for their qualifications. The FTA has been created to ensure that the UK manufacturing sector continues to thrive with a skilled local workforce.

Carl Lomas
Chairman of the Logistics Skills Alliance (GTA)

Carl Lomas MBE Both an apprentice and undergraduate to begin a lifes work in logistics sector.’

Champion between employer and govt depts for next generation workforce in logistics. Sec to Trailblazer group for Express, level two standard published, level 6 at EOI and 3 & 4 in development for an exploding sector driven by e-retail expansion and hoe delivery.

Awarded MBE for services to education in transport, a strong former employer, presently chair for both National Institute and various transport bodies from TFL to Manchester, academic fellow in logistics at Univ Derby and author of LLEP strategic plan for transport. FE to HE with college Gov role and Univ governing council position.

A trusted sector ambassador with various 2016 Key note speech appointments, Feb heads of Industry Heathrow, AELP for sector group, Intralogistex Ricoh arena, Apprentice 4 England Coventry, Freight in City Conf Alexander Palace Nov.
  
Appointments in 2016, LoCity van group chair by TFL, Appointed Urban delivery chair for Transport Manchester and made a governor to FORS Fright scheme.

Sector expertise founded with previous formation of a group of London courier companies before development of first NVQ qualifications for motorcycle couriers, development of Courier Training company in London, TSC grade 1 award for excellence, Adult Learning agency OFSTED grade twos for training, IIP and BS5750 achieved.

Chairman first GTA in sector, Logistics Skills Alliance, a coalition between West Thames FE College, private training provision and employers around Heathrow to drive employer involvement in apprenticeships.

Twenty year member of Inst of Directors, strong corporate background, masters in Computer science, established national chair working with sector wide board level individuals across UK on strategic and complex issues from employment platforms to education, green environment & traffic compliance issues. Logistics at heart of so many sectors creating depth beyond sector.

Former roles, inaugural chair D2N2 LEP transport group. National Council member of Sills for Logistics and chairman of the mail & logistics group for the skills council. Vice Chairman of the Despatch association, Chairman of the National Motorcycle Council NTO board member Road haulage Dist Training Council, RHDTC, board member NSAL National Skills academy Logistics.

Mark Poland
Competitions Director, Profiles4Care Ltd

Mark has worked in the Learning and Development arena as a quality manager for over 19 Years. He is qualified as an assessor and verifier and project manager and has vast experience in programme management, design, evaluation and operational management. 

Since 2012 Mark has been employed at Skills for Care (the Home of The National Skills Academy for Social Care) as the Quality and Assessment Manager and has been responsible for the development and management of the endorsement framework which is the unique quality mark for Learning and Development Providers in the adult social care sector. Other work related responsibilities have included the evaluation of the leadership and management programmes on behalf of Department of Health and the project management of the very successful value- based recruitment toolkit. In his spare time Mark manages the health and social care competitions for the WorldSkills portfolio. They have been awarded Competition Oganising Partner of the Year, twice in the past three years.