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Biographies Sir Sandy Bruce-Lockhart Sir Sandy was first elected to Kent County Council in 1989 and has been Leader of the Conservative Group since 1993. In May 1997 he became Leader of Kent County Council and was re-elected in June 2001 with an increased KCC majority. Born in 1942, Sir Sandy farmed in Zimbabwe before settling in Kent. He has farmed in the County for 37 years at Headcorn and Egerton concentrating on fruit and fruit packing. He has been married to Tess for 35 years and has three children. Sir Sandy is Chairman of the Local Government Association; Chairman of the Kent Thameside Delivery Board; A trustee of the Centre for Social Justice; and a school governor. He has written widely about public services and social issues. | TOP | Graham Badman Graham Badman’s teaching career included posts as science teacher, Head of a Science Department and Deputy Head Teacher before joining the Advisory Service in Cornwall. His next post was as Head Teacher also in Cornwall. He then became an adviser in Oxfordshire and Chief Adviser in Avon County Council, where he was promoted to Director of Education in 1991. He re-joined Oxfordshire LEA in 1996 when he became Chief Education Officer. In July 1997 he was appointed as a specialist adviser to the Education and Employment Parliamentary Select Committee. Graham took up post as Strategic Director for Kent County Council in January 2002. | TOP | Alan November Alan November is an international leader in education technology. He began his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counselor at an island reform school for boys in Boston Harbor. He has been director of an alternative high school, computer coordinator, technology consultant, and university lecturer. He has helped schools, governments and industry leaders improve the quality of education through technology. Audiences enjoy Alan's humor and wit as he pushes the boundaries of how to improve teaching and learning. His areas of expertise include planning across curriculum, staff development, new school design, community building and leadership development. He has delivered keynotes and workshops in all fifty states, across Canada, and throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and Central America. Alan was named one of the nation’s fifteen most influential thinkers of the decade by Classroom Computer Learning Magazine. In 2001, he was listed one of eight educators to provide leadership into the future by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse. His writing includes numerous articles and best-selling book, Empowering Students with Technology. Alan was co-founder of the Stanford Institute for Educational Leadership Through Technology and is most proud of being selected as one of the original five national Christa McAuliffe Educators. Building Learning Communities Summer Conference Each summer Alan leads a summer conference with world-class presenters and participants from all over the world. Visit novemberlearning.com for more details.| TOP | Kevin Boardman After completing his telecommunication graduate programme at Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI plc), Kevin worked for 5 years designing network solutions for many of their business groups based around the Northwest. He collaborated with network suppliers to create innovative solutions to meet the demands of both chemical factory and head office sites. Later he joined Barclays Bank to gain experience of working in the financial sector before leaving to set-up his own business offering consultancy and process reengineering services to small and medium enterprise (SME) clients. At the beginning of 2000 Kevin was persuaded to join Nortel Networks in order that we could programme manage the IT infrastructure implementation of a global clients head office being built at Canary Wharf. This programme delivered the largest single building LAN solution at the time for Nortel and provided a fully resilient infrastructure to want was at the time the largest trader dealing room in the world. As a Unisys Director in Global Infrastructure Services (GIS), Kevin heads up the Client Programme Management teams working in the government sector. He strongly believes that as a managed service partner, CPM teams must work continuously to build stronger client relationships that enables Unisys to create better and more effective solutions for the government accounts. Kevin has contributed significantly to the creation of CPM within GIS and is now actively leading his teams to drive out the benefits this collaborative approach. | TOP | Peter Banbury BSc, MBCS, CEng After reading electrical engineering at Imperial College, Peter taught for 13 years including Head of Chemistry and responsibility for disaffected pupils. He introduced computing to his school in 1977 using punched cards. Later he was seconded as a curriculum advisor, eventually becoming the director of the County IT Support Team, taking it from Kent funded to fully income earning in four years. As ICT Projects Manager, he moulds government projects to curriculum need through the design of appropriate ICT systems. He strongly believes that advisers must work together across unit and LEA boundaries to keep up with ICT developments. He guided EIS in becoming the first LEA unit to gain Becta Approved ICT Supplier status. Peter is the secretary of the national broadband technical group, working with DfES, Becta and UKERNA to further the broadband infrastructure in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Peter has been a primary school governor and holds amateur radio licence G8BNK. He is chair of the Favourite Trust which is preserving the 105 year-old Oyster Yawl Favourite to celebrate Whitstable’s fishing and shipbuilding heritage | TOP | |
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