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GOVERNOR CANDIDATE PACK 2 3 INTRODUCTION WHO WE ARE Activate Learning is committed to Activate Learning is a pioneering education group with a global energising our communities to generate reach. The group comprises secondary, further and higher education, prosperity and opportunity. apprenticeship and business training. Following our successful mergers with Bracknell and We are at the forefront of a critical new phase in the Our partnerships with industry are establishing clear Wokingham College and Guildford College Group in 2019, delivery of applied learning. The role and value of pathways to employment for every learner, the past year has been one of transformation as we strived technical education, in raising skill levels and driving co-created and co-delivered by employers. to embed the Activate Learning ways and values on the new productivity, is being recognised as never before. colleges we welcomed to our group. Our expertise in technical education is underpinned Unprecedented changes in technology, the global by an understanding of the elements required for We have been agile in our response to the COVID-19 economy and education policy require an innovative effective learning - our Learning Philosophy. pandemic and thanks to our investments into digital platforms response. We are redefining the role of learning and and virtual learning we’ve managed to maintain high the learning professional to develop talented people Our ambitions are captured in our group standards of teaching and learning for students throughout with the soft and technical skills required to deliver the vision and mission: the crisis. innovation our country needs. This is important to us as we recognise the role we play helping the people in our communities to better themselves, while also providing our local economies with the high-skilled, capable talent it needs. Vision As a result of Black Lives Matter, we realise that for too long we’ve taken the sense of inclusivity and belonging for granted and are working hard with our BAME staff to right any wrongs Sue Sturgeon and grow and foster vibrant communities across our colleges. Chair of the Corporation Working as part of the Board of Governors at Activate TO ACHIEVE FAR-REACHING, Learning, you will help the organisation as a critical friend that offers advice, insight and oversight of the work we do. PROGRESSIVE CHANGE AND These are exciting times to be stepping into a Governor role IMPACT THROUGH LEARNING” within the FE sector. We anticipate people placing more emphasis on up-skilling and retraining as a result of the effects of recent events and we are looking for people who share our Mission sense of purpose to help us to be the driver for social mobility that we have always, and will always, continue to be. PROVIDING TALENT FOR BUSINESS, TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH OUR LEARNING PHILOSOPHY” As we enter the next phase of our journey we are building on strong foundations to deliver an unparalleled learning experience, designed to meet learner and industry needs. OUR OFFERINGS Activate Activate Activate Activate ActivateGroup Learning International Learning Apprenticeships Learning CommunitiesServices Colleges Education Trust Online TheOxfordPartnership Customers and China Markets Partnerships Learning and SE Asia Student Partnerships Support Information and India Learning Partnerships Technology Human Resources and Organisational Development Institutional Effectiveness (MIS) Finance Property and Environment Commercial Support 6 7 OUR JOURNEY TO DATE » Academy status gained » UTC Oxfordshire » UTC Oxford and UTC » Bracknell & opens Reading join the Trust Wokingham College » Bicester campus opens » Three colleges in » UTC Swindon joins joins the group » Becomes Oxford & Cherwell Valley College Saudi Arabia open 2003 2005 2010 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 » Reading College » Group becomes » Oxford & Cherwell College » Bicester Technology Studio » UTC Heathrow and » Guildford joins the group Activate Learning formed (merger of three opens Theale Green School College colleges) » Group services formed » UTC Reading Group » A fourth college in Saudi join the trust opens joins Arabia joins » Activate Enterprise Activate » Activate Enterprise becomes opens Learning Activate Apprenticeships 08 09 PROFILES Sue retired from a long career in Local Government in 2017. Her last role was Managing Director of Guildford Borough Council, providing services to Tracey joined Activate Learning in July 2013 and has 140,000 residents and managing a workforce of since become Vice Chair of the Corporation Board nearly 800 employees. and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee. Sue’s professional background colleges, delivering educational is accountancy and she held the services in modern/fit for purpose She was motivated to join the group businesses across various sectors statutory role of Chief Finance buildings and that it becomes the as she had benefited massively with a focus on quoted companies. Officer for the last 15 years of college of first choice for local from the social mobility gained from She is currently Vice Chair and her career. She held the role of young people. In July 2020 Sue was completing a BEC National Certificate Chair of Audit at Activate. She was Head of Paid Service from 2013 appointed Chair of Governors for at Redditch College in the 80’s previously a member of the ICAEW Sue Sturgeon until her retirement in 2017. Since Activate Learning. Sue is a strong whilst an apprentice at Hyrovane Audit Regulation Committee and the Chair of the Corporation the inception of Local Enterprise advocate of Activate’s Learning Compressors Ltd. This enabled her to Audit Committee of South Oxford Partnerships Sue attended the Philosophy believing that it will progress through to University and a Housing Association. Tracey spent Enterprise M3 board and is get the best out of learners and successful career in Finance. two years in Industry as Director Tracey James passionate about seeing a stronger empower them to achieve their of Finance for a Medical Supplies Chair of Audit and Risk linkage between business and potential. She is particularly Tracey is a qualified Chartered company in Canada having previously Committee education providers. interested in creating opportunities Accountant and was an Audit Partner spent 5 years in Paris. She was for young people from at Grant Thornton UKLLP where she appointed to the Board of Places for Sue became a governor of the disadvantaged backgrounds. spent most of her career until June People Group 1 October 2019. Tracey Guildford Colleges in 2015 and in 2018. She was a member of Grant has a strong sense of social purpose 2019 was appointed a governor of Since retiring Sue has become a Thornton’s Partner Oversight Board, and desire to give back to society Activate Learning on the merger with Director of Surrey Hills Enterprises, Audit & Risk Committee and Audit having benefited from the education Activate Learning. She studied is a Director of the Guildford Book Faculty Board. She specialises in system and social mobility. at Guildford College in the late Festival and is also on the board of advising fast growth, international 1970’s and believes that Guildford Guildford Philanthrophy. deserves a first class group of James’s current occupation is CEO of MEPC Sally has held senior posts in both secondary Limited, a Commercial Real Estate asset and schools and further education for many years development management organisation, which and is a tireless campaigner and advocate for the specialises in urban regeneration and science and learning and skills sector. technology parks and currently has £1bn of assets under its management. She is a board member of the She became Principal at Milton Keynes Education and Training Foundation, College in 1996, and in 2003 became chairs the Women’s Leadership Network the first Principal of Oxford & Cherwell James has 40 years’ experience Since joining Activate Learning in and was the chair of the Employment Valley College. In 2013 she became in the property management and 2014, James has become Chair of the Committee of the Association of the first Chief Executive of Activate development sector and graduated Remuneration Committee and remains Colleges. She is a member of the Learning, bringing together in one from Reading University with a BSc keen to help young people transform James Dipple Oxfordshire Management Club, All group, three FE Colleges, three UTCs, in Estate Management. He is also their lives through good applied Chair of Remuneration Souls Group and is a leading thinker two 11-18 secondary schools, a studio a Fellow of the Royal Institute of education, which reaches across all Sally Dicketts CBE Committee for the National Education Trust. She school, a training provider delivering Chartered Surveyors. Even outside ability groups. James also believes Chief Executive Officer sits on the Oxfordshire Local Education apprentices, training and consulting of his professional role, James that he can apply his real estate and Partnership. Sally was awarded a CBE in the workplace, and a specialist remains interested in the Real Estate business experience to his role as in the Queen’s Honours list in July 2013. engineering training provider. industry, mentoring graduates and a governor, ensuring that facilities progressing the career development across the sites are fit for purpose. Her main area of interest is in how In her free time, Sally enjoys travel, of young people. people learn, mindfulness and how cycling, Zumba and spending