Facilitators
Kelly Towend,
Operations Manager, WYLP Ltd
Worked in FE as a trainer for many years and is passionate about quality improvement of apprenticeship & skills provision. Instrumental in achieving and maintaining the WYLP Ofsted grade 2 status and supporting other providers across the network to enhance their observation skills. Currently leading on an ETF project on Outstanding Teaching, Learning & Assessment, with particular reference to apprenticeship standards.
Works across a range of training organisations to develop and enhance their quality improvement arrangements including ensuring effective and robust observation processes, learner journey development, planning and starting point arrangements and quality improvement audits.
Paul Warner
Director of Director of Research & Development, AELP
Having been a specialist recruitment consultant to the defence industry for six years, Paul started in the post-16 sector in 1993 on Training for Work contracts for TBG Learning. He subsequently took on a variety of related operational and senior management roles, culminating in a successful tenure as Director of Business Development. On leaving TBG in 2002 he worked as a consultant for a time, including a spell managing WBL delivery at Barking College in East London, before joining AELP in September 2003 particularly concentrating on the alignment of the skills and employability agendas. In his current role he is responsible for all research and development activities, and holds lead policy briefs in a number of areas including technical education reforms, SEND/LLDD, and international strategy. Paul holds a First Class Honours degree in International Relations from the University of Keele, an MA in Post-Compulsory Education and Training from the University of Sheffield, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Married with one daughter, hailing from the New Forest but living in Essex, he enjoys rock music and amateur dramatics, and is training for his black belt in karate.
