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 | Jim Donaldson CBE (Chair) |
| Jim was Chief Inspector and Director of Audit at the Further Education Funding Council for England. He previously held the post of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools at the Scottish Office with special responsibility for further and higher education. Between 1992 and 1996 he was seconded to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council where, as Director of Learning and Teaching, he introduced quality assessment and public reporting of the quality of higher education degree programmes in Scottish universities and other higher education institutions. Prior to that he taught in further and higher education colleges for 15 years. While in the Scottish inspectorate he played a leading role in the development of the national qualification system in business and administration, and in the introduction of new inspection methodologies based on self-assessment. In England, he led national initiatives on college benchmarking, target setting for student retention and achievement in further education programmes, and college accreditation leading to ‘light touch’ inspections. Until recently Jim was engaged in consulting, training and evaluating further and higher education institutional performance in England and Scotland. His professional interests include widening access to further and higher education, and quality of learning and teaching. Jim has three grown up children and lives in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian. He was appointed CBE for services to education in 2001. | |
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 | Grant Myles (Vice Chair) |
| A Member of the Board since 2004, Grant is Vice Chair and Chair of the Remuneration Committee. Grant is currently Managing Director of People Assets, a consultancy business that works with a wide range of private and public sector organisations on change, process improvement, conflict resolution and management coaching. Following graduation, Grant joined Tube Investments as a Personnel Officer and then worked with Lothian Regional Council in the Employee Relations and Training and Development functions. He then joined Scottish and Newcastle where he held a number of senior posts in both Human Resource and Operational Management. Grant is a business coach and a workplace mediator and a member of the Scottish Mediation Network. He has been involved with further education for many years having previously been a member of the Board at Jewel and Esk Valley College and a member of and latterly Chair of the Board at Runshaw College in Leyland Lancashire. Grant is married with two grown up children. He is a keen hill walker and enjoys watching most sports and is still trying to master his golf swing. | |
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 | Miles Dibsdall OBE (Principal) |
| I’m Miles Dibsdall, currently the Principal of Edinburgh’s Telford College. I enjoy being an active member of the educational community in Scotland. Edinburgh’s Telford College is currently introducing many new initiatives to ensure that all our learners enjoy a positive learning experience and achieve beneficial outcomes from their time at college. I believe in ensuring the Learner is at the centre of the institution and I am committed to be the “Learners’ Champion”. Before I came to Edinburgh’s Telford College I was Principal of New College, Stamford in Lincolnshire for four years and prior to that Deputy Principal at West Kent College. I was awarded an OBE in June 2010 for services to Higher and Further Education. | |
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 | Mouris Bashir |
| Mouris Bashir is a full time student at Edinburgh’s Telford College, studying Business. He is 22 and when not studying or being a student leader, loves watching movies of any language and of any country, reading books and writing poetry. Playing and watching cricket is his passion. He comes from a relatively unknown place called Kashmir, which lies somewhere between the Himalayas. He became involved in the Union last year when he was Clubs and Societies Officer. He was also a member as well as first Co-Chair of the Learner Council and these forums inspired him to get fully involved with the Student Union. | |
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 | Mike Cowley |
| Mike Cowley has been a lecturer at Edinburgh’s Telford College since the turn of the century, working his way incrementally to a FT lecturer’s position over the first part of the last decade. Mike completed his studies at in 1994, achieving an MA in Social Sciences at Glasgow University. This followed studies in the FE Sector at Stevenson College. Prior to successfully completing his PG certificate in Education in Post School Education in 2000 at Strathclyde University, Mike lived and worked in London, writing, playing music and working in various retail and warehouse jobs. He is published widely in labour movement literature, and is an office bearer currently for Edinburgh’s Telford College EIS Branch. He runs a modest club at the Cruz Ship in Edinburgh once a fortnight with friends, and is a reluctant season ticket holder at Celtic Park. | |
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 | Colin Garvie |
| Colin is a Chartered Accountant by profession, qualifying too long ago to remember [i.e. over 25 years ago]. He currently provides management consultancy, non-executive director services and general business advice to various businesses both in the UK and further afield via his own consultancy company, Square 1 Consultants. Colin also designs and delivers commercial, financial, and non-financial training courses to private and public sector organisations in the UK, Hong Kong, US and Eastern Europe. Prior to setting up his own business way back in 1989, Colin was employed by the leading venture capitalist 3i. His role there included, inter alia, the identification, investigation, negotiation and completion of a number of new investments in both start-up and existing companies in Scotland. Colin has a keen interest in young people’s education and keeps his hand in with the occasional lecture to final year students at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland of which he is a member and some freelance university lecturing. He also takes a keen interest in the local community and has for many years been Chairman of his local Community Council and Treasurer of the local community-owned shop. When not working, Colin enjoys family time with his wife Sandra, their three boys [two actually grown up now!] and the family campervan! Other activities include golf, where his handicap is exactly that and watching the latest Scottish football debacle whether it be club or country. He is a fanatical film devotee and is a founding member of the local community cinema. | |
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 | Gordon Lee |
| A graduate of Edinburgh University, Gordon was the Tourist Manager for the City of Edinburgh before becoming a founding director of Shaw Marketing and Design. He held a number of roles at Shaw including Production Director and championing Investors in People, Shaw being the first marketing services company in Scotland to achieve the award. Following a management buyout, Gordon became Joint Managing Director focusing particularly on the financial management of the company. After selling his shareholding in Shaw, he has worked as a marketing consultant, specialising in social enterprise and is now the Marketing Manager for ProjectScotland, Scotland’s national youth volunteering charity. | |
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 | Jacqueline Maull |
| Joined Board in November 2003 after election by Support Staff. Re-elected in 2008. Member of Learning and Teaching Committee and Vice Chair of the Audit Committee. Prior to joining the College staff in 1996 Jacqueline worked in occupations as diverse as Putting Green Attendant to Assistant Careers Advisor. Since commencing employment with the then Lothian Regional Council in 1989 Jacqueline was a Trades Union representative with UNISON. A role she continued on joining Edinburgh’s Telford College, finally standing down in 2001. A commitment to encourage and support people with communication or literacy challenges, which started during her period working in the Special Needs Careers Office, led Jacqueline to take qualifications in Sign Language and work as an Adult Basic Education Tutor in the evenings for both Hearing Impaired and Integrated classes. Jacqueline also trained as a UNISON Learning Representative and was a volunteer with Samaritans for 3 rewarding years. Jacqueline moved from her post in the School of Construction Engineering and the Sciences to take up a new challenge as an HR Advisor and has recently become Staff Liaison Officer. Jacqueline is married with two daughters and lives in Penicuik. | |
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 | Donald Meldrum |
| Donald Meldrum is a Chartered Surveyor property consultant, and is the Asset Manager for East Ayrshire Council. He has extensive experience in both the private and public sector, specialising in developing and delivering major projects. During his time within the Scottish Executive he was a member of the Scottish Steering Group for Business Improvement Districts and is currently a member of the RICS Scotland Commercial Property Faculty Board. He has also been a guest lecturer at Napier University. Living in Edinburgh, he has a busy social and leisure life and is an active member of the Scottish Malt Whisky Society. | |
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 | Dr Jenny Rees |
| Jenny Rees is an experienced senior manager and director in higher and further education with experience of leading major change and with expertise in corporate planning, quality of the student experience and academic quality. She retired in September 2011 from the post of Vice-Principal (Academic Quality and Customer Service) at Edinburgh Napier University which she took up in May 2006. She is now able to deploy her skills and expertise in a more flexible and varied way across a portfolio of assignments and responsibilities. She previously worked at Glasgow Caledonian University. During that time she was on the Board and latterly Chair of Glasgow College of Food Technology and then joined the Board of Glasgow Metropolitan College. From 2003 to 2005 she was a member of the Scottish Further Education Funding Council and from 2005 to 2007 of the Scottish Funding Council for Further and Higher Education. She is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a member of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is a member of the Board of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education and chairs the QAA Scotland Committee. She is also a member of the Advisory Council of SQA (the Scottish Qualifications Authority). | |
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 | David Rutherford |
| David Rutherford is a Chartered Accountant who after qualifying with Touche Ross in Edinburgh spent two years working with KPMG in their Netherlands practice in The Hague. During his period with KPMG David enjoyed the International experience gained in Holland so much he and his wife started a family there. Since returning to Edinburgh he fulfilled his long term aim to be a general practitioner Chartered Accountant and is now the senior partner of Cowan & Partners, Chartered Accountants. The firm employs over 20 staff operating from a grand former bank building in Leith. David has a strong affinity with Leith as he was born there. David assists over 400 clients in all matters related to business and enjoys the wide variety of industries, clients and challenges that they bring. As a licensed insolvency practitioner he also provides advice to businesses that are in financial difficulty. These experiences, he says, provides him with a large amount of information concerning companies in difficulty which assists him in helping all his clients. David has been a member of several technical committees and is currently a Council Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. David is currently the Chairman of a registered arts charity, Dance Base and of Edinburgh Business Developments Ltd, an enterprise trust. He is a Past Moderator of The Society of High Constables of Edinburgh, a historic body that performs ceremonial duties for the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. When not involved in these extra curricular activities David enjoys watching the great talent which can be seen at Easter Road on a Saturday afternoon, cooking meals for his family and friends, playing golf, guitar (both to the same handicap) and socialising. He is married with three grown-up children. | |
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 | Ian Stevenson |
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