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Andrew Gedge, Deputy principal, SMB Group (Stephenson College and Brooksby Melton College)
Start date: February 2021
Previous job: Assistant principal, College of West Anglia
Interesting fact: He once managed to help successfully land a medical helicopter in the middle of a very busy college campus with several hundred students watching on.
James Wharton, Chair, Office for Students
Start date: February 2021
Previous job: MP for Stockton South
Interesting fact: He is a keen walker.
Lia Nici, Chair, Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network
Start date: February 2021
Concurrent job: MP for Great Grimsby
Interesting fact: During a previous career in television, she worked on the famous BBC children’s show Byker Grove.
Vicky Frost, Head of training, PA Training
Start date: March 2021
Previous job: Editor, ‘Future London’, Evening Standard
Interesting fact: She is often found on her allotment, where last year she grew her first crop of “enormous” globe artichokes.
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