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About Me
. My current role is Head of Strategic Partnership and Collaboration for the School of Education Futures at the University of Wolverhampton. My role is to create and sustain strategic partnerships with public, private and voluntary sectors, relationship management, quality assurance and the development of systems and business processes to support effective partnership. I believe that widening participation is key to an inclusive education agenda and work passionately to ensure that the student experience on and off campus is the best it can be. I work to create an educational environment where research and inquiry is part of the development and delivery of the curriculum creating research focused practitioners who want to go on to achieve success through life long learning.
- Location:
- United Kingdom, Rugby
- Gender:
- Female
- Areas of expertise:
- Strategic management , Partnership Development, Business Solutions, System analysis and Design, System Development, IT & Business Management
- I am:
- Educator/Teacher
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I'm passionate about
I am an experienced leader, senior manager and educationalist, passionate about making a difference within the education sector for the learner, the institution and the community being served.
An idea worth spreading
The Emperor with no clothes - the impact of technology on society - are we at a stage in our global development where technology is leading change, behavior and skills - has this led to a better quality of life or are we enacting 1984 where technology is dumbing down society.
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Strategic development of an organisation, strategic partnerships, transformation of an organisation through the use of technologies, managing change, managing resources, identity management
People don't know that I'm good at
Moving bales of straw and hay at a animal sanctuary
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A reply on Conversation: What's one thing you wish you had learned in school?
A comment on Conversation: What's one thing you wish you had learned in school?
A reply on Conversation: Oxford, Cambridge and Ivy League Universities are often revered above others. What do people make of this?
A comment on Conversation: Oxford, Cambridge and Ivy League Universities are often revered above others. What do people make of this?
My father obtained is PhD from Cambridge as a mature student (! was 9 when he started his 3 years at Cambridge). Both my parents were academics and I did what it a seems a number of academic children do and i rebelled at 16 against education and left school with very few qualifications. I went on to work and after being incredibly bored for 3 years in the public sector went back to education but into what would have been then polytechnics. I did not at 21 have any real understanding of the hierarchy of further and higher education, I just knew i wanted to have a life where i could earn money to live. 25 years later I am now an academic - how history repeats itself in a University which is certainly not ivy league and believes in inclusion and widening participation in being world class. Before i went to work there 4 years ago, I did have the opportunity to work with a number of higher education institutes and recognised that quality is quality whatever age an institution has. Quality is based upon the whole student experience, not just what goes on in the classroom.
Now I loved living in Cambridge and I found the whole idea of gowns and ritual exciting as a child looking in but it wasnt what I wanted as a 21 year old. i wanted skills and experiences that would help me get a job and I really didnt see myself as an academic. I saw my father as one, someone who researched within a positivist paradigm and added to the research community. Did it give him a good life getting a PhD from Cambridge? yes it opened doors but his hard work made him the man he is.
There is a hierarchy in all levels of education - we are now looking at free schools and academies and society will persuade us that we need to choose the best for our child. I agree but the best is not necessarily the Ivy League. the best is what you experience overall in making you the person that you are today which could be the local college, Open University or Oxbridge.
A comment on Conversation: Is the current direction of the web Democratic?
I fall flat at times when I see how much time young people are sitting on their mobile devices and other technology - the technologies that are meant to encourage their growth and look at all the opportunities that are passing them by. I see all the unemployment caused by a growth in jobs for a few and wonder about what this will mean in 10 years time. I am on Facebook, twitter, linkedin and I look at it all and think - has this really enriched my life?
To answer the question directly - yes the aforementioned are democratic in that we have signed up to their conditions without force but I do feel that I am a lemming going over the edge and not knowing why. I know they filter, I know that the market is funded by advertising and that at certain times of the day the consumer is more willing to buy products than other so it is my 'choice' as it is the masses whether to buy or not to buy. I always wanted to have 'my world' online which means I really appreciate that when i go to Amazon it recognizes what i had last time and offers me products. What Facebook and Google are doing do not seem new to me. We have enabled them to create the filters by sharing so much with them.
The bigger question must be what in this brave new world is democracy?