I taught physics in Bedfordshire before being seconded to the Microelectronics Education Program
(MEP), based at Hatfield. I returned to Bedfordshire in an advisory teacher role before being
seconded to be Deputy Director of the National Education Resources Information Service, NERIS.
In 1991 I was appointed to be the Director of Durham’s Microtechnology Centre, where under
various different job titles I spent 18 years supporting schools.
In 1994 I joined NAACE and was fortunate to be a member of the original Quality Assurance Group
that developed the first version of the Self Review Framework with colleagues from
Cambridgeshire LA. In 1998 I was privileged to assess one of the first four schools to receive the
NAACEMark Award.
In 2018, having retired for the first time, I was co-opted to the Board of Management and elected to
the BoM in 2019. I was privileged to be elected Chair of the board in 2020 - the COVID chair! Now
that I am chair again in 2025, I am hoping there won’t be any pandemics during my year of office!!
I look forward to working with all members of the board and the wider association to enable
schools and those they support to get the most out of their EdTech.