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| Path: Home > In the Regions > The Team > Sue O’Gorman |
Sue O’Gorman
Regional Development Officer, East of England
Sue O’Gorman (BSc, MSc, PhD) is a Regional Development Officer, representing NIACE in the Eastern region. This involves liaising with strategic bodies and a range of organisations including learning and skills providers, keeping them informed about developments in policy and practice concerning adult learning, supporting the sharing of good practice and encouraging the implementation of NIACE national programmes in the region.
Sue has many years’ experience of operational and strategic management in a wide range of adult learning settings. From 1971 to 1997 she worked at the Polytechnic of North London, later the University of North London where she became Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Science, Computing and Engineering. Her role encompassed responsibility for quality assurance, equal opportunities, staff development, widening participation, student recruitment and links with other educational organisations. Sue established and managed a large number of Access to Higher Education and Foundation Year programmes in collaboration with local colleges of Further Education.
Sue then spent two years as Director of Oxfordshire Open College Network where the focus of her work was quality assurance, offering recognition of achievement for first time learners and establishing networks between a wide range of regional stakeholders in adult learning.
Sue joined Suffolk County Council Community Education Service in 1999 and became manager of their adult learning provision. She has been responsible for implementing considerable changes in respect of organisational change, quality assurance, financial management, and strategic planning. The service has particular strengths in provision for adults with learning difficulties and disabilities, community development, family learning and basic skills, and also in working in partnership with other agencies and in attracting “hard to reach” learners.
Sue joined NIACE as Regional Development Officer in February 2003.
