Chris West has followed a career in leadership, management and teaching in secondary, further and higher education and educational businesses. His focus is strategic change for the improvement of learning through e-learning and professional development. He has worked for government and government agencies to progress e-learning and e-support for UK and international education.
 

As a consultant and Managing Director of Granada Learning Professional Development, he has applied e-learning to raise standards in teaching and learning in UK schools and colleges. This has included winning and delivering major contracts for the Training and Development Agency for Schools and the National College for School Leadership. He is presently managing the regional delivery of a blended learning transformation programme in the Learning and Skills sector. As Managing Director of Anglia Campus, he developed a national e-learning service for schools.

As Chief Executive of ECCTIS, Chris led the UK higher education e-courses information service for the DfES, providing high quality information to support student choice. He won and delivered the contract to run the UK NARIC service for DfES and EU providing information worldwide on the equivalence of UK and international qualifications.

Chris’s academic career included being Vice Principal of a large further education college. He led national information technology research and development projects in futher and higher education, including a secondment to the DfES.

He has worked extensively with ministries in EU countries, South Africa and Argentina.