Paul Crisp
Paul Crisp is the Managing Director of CUREE and directs its business affairs, He has strategic responsibility for knowledge management and ICT projects and those principally located in the post-schools sector. He is currently director of the surveys and data strategy strands of the Building the Evidence Base project for QCDA; and of the learning resources element of the project for SSAT for 14-19 Workforce Support.
Recent work has included consultancy to QIA on the development of the Excellence Gateway (focussing particularly on collaboration with sector partners); support to CEL in the development of self-study units for the Principals' Qualification Programme; the development of a set of e-resources to support the National Mentoring and Coaching Framework; a scoping study for the, then, DfES for a website of CPD resources for practitioners; and a report on workforce development strategy for Becta. He was Distance and e-Learning Adviser at the National Learning and Skills Council until March 2006 during which time he supported a number of strands of the National Learning Network programme. In that role he was co-author of the Council s e-learning policy (aka the DELG Report)
Before joining CUREE he was vice-principal of a general FE college, a lecturer and consultant in education management and a local authority policy officer. Once, long ago, he was a telecommunications engineer. He has an MA in Education from Sussex University and a collection of management and engineering qualifications. He is a member of the Association for Learning Technology and the British Educational Research Association. He is a member of the Learning to Learn Advisory Group of the Campaign for Learning. He serves on the Development and Editorial Groups of the UK Education Evidence Portal (EEP). He is Chairman of Governors of a large comprehensive school in Coventry and chairs the governors' steering group of a federation of schools and colleges.
