Mr David Ager

• Senior Technical Officer, British Rail Civil Engineers Office, Euston 1965-77
• Part time lecturer; Bournville College, Birmingham and Henley College, Coventry1981-2
• Lecturer and Curriculum Area Manager; Cornwall College, 1982-2009
• Part time lecturer, Cornwall College, 2009-16
• Associate lecturer, Plymouth University, Jan 2013-

Other

• Headed up a successful validation application to CIPD for accreditation of a level 5 programme for Cornwall College.
• Chief examiner for A level Industrial and Business Studies with Oxford University Local Examinations Delegacy 1986-1999
• Undertook a study into migrant workers and the contract of employment in Cornwall for my Masters in Law dissertation.
• Completed a thesis on the Easter Counties Labour Federation (a Victorian agricultural trade union in Suffolk) for the Ruskin College Diploma.
• Acted as HE Rep for the UCU trade union in Cornwall College.
• General interest in trade union affairs.
• Qualified railway signalman, formerly working in a voluntary capacity for the West Somerset Railway and involvement in delivering staff training.
• Baritone singer with a local choir.
• Interest in industrial history, current affairs, transport policy and history, social history,
• Trustee and Chairman of the Board, King Edward Mine Museum, Troon, Camborne.
• Chairman; Redruth Learning Group Trust

Qualifications

• Ruskin College Diploma in Labour Studies, Ruskin College Oxford, 1975
• BA (Hons) Economics and Politics I1i Warwick University, 1980
• MA Transport Economics, Leeds University, 1981
• PGC Education Plymouth University, 1986
• MA Management, Coventry University, 2005

LL M Masters in Employment Law at UCLan, 2009

Teaching interests

Teaching experience (in the past five years)

 

• Employment Law. On degree courses and short degree level courses for business.
• Economic principles. On various courses.
• Environmental economics. On third year degree in Environmental Science.
• Principles of Economics and Management, Plymouth University degree in construction
• Human Resources Management and Employment Law (Level 5) for BA Business Enterprise
• Strategic Human Resource Management (Level 6) for BA Business Enterprise
• Change management for BSc Carbon Management.
• Sustainable Transport Policy on BSc Carbon Management

Teaching experience (more than five years ago)

 

• Business Economics on Business degree.
• People Development and Leadership on Business degree
• Passenger Transport systems. On tourism degree.
• Writing business plans and business start-up on various courses.
• Operations management. On CMI courses.
• Performance management. On CMI and ACCA courses
• Human Resource Development. On CMI courses.
• A level Business Studies and Economics.
• A level Sports Studies (Sport History)
• Corporate Social Responsibility for BA Business Enterprise.

Books

·    ‘The Soccer Referees Manual’; published by A & C Black (6th edition issued October 2015)

·    ‘Handbook of Football Club Management’; Crowood Press, 2003 (joint author)

Additional information

Other experience and interests: Football

 

• FA Level 1 Tutor.
• Former Qualified Child Safeguarding Workshop tutor for the Football Association.
• Former Referee and Referee Instructor and Assessor with the FA
• Past involvement with local club management in Luton and Coventry
• Chairman of King Edward Mine Museum, Troon Cornwall