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Authors

Judith Norrington

Director of Curriculum and Quality and Project Director

Siobhan Bird

Project Administrator

Chris Crompton

Consultant (and Editor)

Matthew Griffiths

Consultant (Prison BSQI Lead Consultant)

Stuart McCoy

Consultant (BSQI Lead Consultant)

Carol Tennyson

Consultant

Janet Woods

Consultant

Thanks also go to the agencies that contributed and supported

the BSQI

Learning and Skills Council (LSC)

Emer Clarke

Director, Quality, Evaluation and Strategy

Anita Hallam

Programme Adviser – Basic Skills, Policy and Development

Special thanks to Mary Kelly, Quality Improvement Manager, for all her hard work 

and support

Adult Basic Skills Strategy Unit (ABSSU)

Barry Brooks

Head of Standards Curriculum and Quality

Punita Goodfellow

Quality and Training

Liz Lawson

Curriculum and Standards

and all the regional co-ordinators who attended

Ofsted/ALI

Maureen Beckwith

HMI – Ofsted

William Lewis

HMI – ALI

Annex A: 

Acknowledgments

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Matthew Griffiths

Matthew works as an independent consultant and lead the prison education BSQI

work. Formerly, a full-time inspector with FEFC; particular responsibility for basic

education and provision for students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities;

joint lead for national survey of provision for basic skills and provision for students

with learning difficulties and/or disabilities; co-author of Good Practice Guide for

teachers of students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. Previously, national

director of education at MENCAP; he led the development for the FEU/MENCAP of

the curriculum framework Learning for Life; and led work for the World Health

Organisation. 

Marie Allen 

Marie is head of faculty of adult basic education at Liverpool Community College.

She started her career as a maths teacher in a secondary school. After a career break,

she returned as a volunteer tutor for basic skills and then a part-time and full-time

lecturer in the college. She helped to establish the network of Drop-In Study Centres

across the city for students with basic skills needs. Marie manages a large team of 

full-time and part-time staff in a diverse faculty that was awarded a grade 1 for its

basic skills provision in February 2000. She is also an associate inspector with the ALI,

specialising in literacy and numeracy provision. 

Peter Bainbridge

Peter works as an independent consultant. He has spent over thirty years in a wide

range of education and training jobs and was, until recently, an FEFC senior inspector

in the south west region. Prior to that, Peter was a specialist inspector for basic skills,

adult and community education. Before joining the inspectorate he was an LEA

Director of Education. Earlier in his career he was a community education worker,

secondary school teacher, polytechnic senior lecturer and head of an LEA community

education service. He was adviser to the Association of Metropolitan Authorities

community education group.

Teresa Bergin

Director of quality for the National Open College Network; responsible for managing

the development and quality assurance of national qualifications. Consultant to FEFC

on stage 1 of the BSQI; member of the BSQI steering group; editor of the draft

materials; and tutor on the BSQI training of facilitators. Previously, director of the

Merseyside Open College Network; experienced as a teacher of basic skills. 

Pen portraits of tutor team

Judith Norrington

Judith Norrington has been director of curriculum and quality at the Association of

Colleges since its creation in 1996. Previously she held a similar post at the

Association for Colleges, which she joined at its inception in 1993. 

Judith writes policy documents, reports and consultation responses on behalf of the

Association on a wide range of curriculum and quality issues and has surveyed the

sector on a range of areas to inform college practice, including inspection, Curriculum

2000, awarding bodies’ costs, HE in FE and Performance Review. She leads on 14-19

curriculum policy developments for the Association. She has worked recently both on

those learners who are able to benefit from current qualifications and the 51% of

learners who are not reaching government benchmarks at 16. Judith leads on basic

skills issues and is actively involved in a range of project work to support the sector.

She lobbies on behalf of the sector on curriculum and quality issues and represents

AoC on many national committees and advisory groups including LSC, DfES,

Guidance Council, awarding bodies, Ufi, QCA, and steering groups for some national

research projects. She was recently a member of Mike Tomlinson’s reference group as

part of the inquiry into A Level Standards, is now a member of two 

sub-groups and is also a member of the QCA Examinations Taskforce. She has

directed a range of national projects including the Inclusive Learning Quality

Initiative for the FEFC, ‘Managing for Success’ for the ABSSU and work on key skills,

learning mentors and work-based learning.

Siobhan Bird

Siobhan is the lead administrator for the LSC-funded Basic Skills Quality Initiative,

providing support and arranging training events for staff from colleges and external

institutions. She started at the Association of Colleges in January 2001 to set-up and run

the administration of the BSQI project. She joined the association from the Chartered

Institute of Personnel and Development where she was a conference co-ordinator.

Stuart McCoy

Stuart works as an independent consultant, and was lead consultant for the BSQI

training and development programme for the AoC. Formerly, a full-time inspector

with FEFC specialising in literacy, numeracy and ESOL; co-author of Basic Education:

Curriculum Area Survey (1998); author of Basic Skills Summer Schools (1999), Basic

Education: Making a Difference (1999), and Evaluation of Awards for Literacy, Numeracy

and ESOL (1999). Stuart is an associate inspector with Ofsted and the ALI. He is a

college governor. He was a member of the BSQI steering group and co-editor of the

BSQI materials. He was co-author of the first draft of the ABSSU publication Success 

in adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL provision (2002). Previous experience as deputy

principal of a GFE college, including management of prison education and 

work-based learning programmes, post-16 adviser in an LEA and development officer

with the Further Education Unit (now LSDA). Stuart has been a member of numerous

national advisory committees and a verifier and chief assessor for awarding bodies. 

Annex B:

Pen portraits of project team

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