MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 350

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving.

Katie Easey, Director of education, community learning, The WEA

Start date:June 2021

Previous job: Chief executive, Community Learning in Partnership

Interesting fact: She was a crew member on a 43-foot catamaran travelling from Cairns in Queensland to Christmas Island.

Sam Windett, Deputy director, Learning and Work Institute

Start date: July 2021

Previous job: Director of policy, Impetus

Interesting fact: She once worked on two General Elections within just six months of each other in Canada and the UK.

Chris Morgan, Director of education, employability and skills, The WEA

Start date: April 2021

Previous job: Head of contracts, funding and partnerships, Nacro

Interesting fact: He spent part of a year in the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia as a humanitarian relief volunteer working with Bosnian and Serbian communities.

Cheryl Swales, Acting operations director, Association of Employment and Learning Providers

Start date: April 2021

Previous job: National operations manager, Association of Employment and Learning Providers

Interesting fact: She once tandem skydived from 13,000ft.

Fraser Whieldon

Fraser has been at FE Week for almost three years now and has fallen head over heels for the FE and skills sector because of its inspiring staff and students and how it more often than not changes the lives of those involved. His areas of focus include provider best practice, how FE and skills impact upon social issues such as sustainability and gender identity, college finances, continual professional development, and of course his beloved Movers and Shakers column. He previously worked at a local newspaper in his adopted home of St Albans and has a degree in politics from the University of Kent. Outside of work, he enjoys archery with his dad and planning events for a St Albans-based social group he somehow ended up helping run.

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