
Profiles
Mr Nick Bailey
Business Engagement Manager
Peninsula Medical School (Faculty of Health)
Biography
Biography
A Cornishman of Cornish parents. Educated in Bath and Bristol. Rugby player coach, club official and supporter. Triathlete competed 3 times at the National Championships (middle distance) member of the Bath Amphibians and a co-organiser of the British University Triathlon Championships. Guitar player. Writer with an interest in post-roman dark ages; old-surfer, and grandfather.
An education professional, national manager for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities, senior policy manager for further, adult and vocational education and training, College Vice Principal, action research with LSDA, ETF, Sunderland University, and Institute of Education at UCL. School Governor, Education Adviser to MPKC (an engineering, industrial heritage and education charity based in mid-Cornwall).
Qualifications
HE credits (MPhil/PhD) Sunderland University
MA Education Leadership and Management Open University
BEd (Business Subjects) Bristol Polytechnic
Professional membership
Fellow Society for Education and Training (FSET)
Roles on external bodies
School Governor, Vice Chair, Chair of Learning and Development Committee, Bosvigo School, Truro
School Governor, Penrice Academy, St Austell
Research
Research
Research interests
EPIC (E-Health Productivity and Innovation for CIOS)
Observation, CPD and Performance Management in further, adult and vocational education in England (with the University of Sunderland and ETF)
Teaching of mathematics in professional vocational programmes (Teach Too; with the Institute of Education at UCL)
'RARPA': Evaluation and Implementation
Added Value in Advanced Level 16-19 academic and vocational programmes (including 'Access' programmes) an evaluation with FEDA and the Institute of Education at UCL
Creative practice & artistic projects
Researching and writing a series of historical novels focused on the end of the Roman Empire's colonisation of Britain