A COLLEGE principal from the North-East has been named as a national leader of further education.
Phil Cook, the chief executive and group principal of the Education Training Collective, is among the Department of Further Education’s latest cohort of college leaders and will be providing strategic mentoring and support to colleges in need of improvement.
Mr Cook joined Stockton Riverside College in 2013 transforming the college from an Ofsted “requires improvement” to a “Good” grading.
It merged with NETA Training in 2015, and with Redcar and Cleveland College in 2018. The overarching college group, which also incorporates Bede Sixth Form College and The Skills Academy, was renamed the Education Training Collective last year.
He said: “Raising standards, in any field, is rarely the result of a singular effort. Throughout my career, I have worked with some amazing people."
"I love working in the further education sector and learning from those around me, and I continue to do so.”
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