HE & Vocational Training | Professor Simon Roodhouse

Professor Simon Roodhouse has extensive creative problem solving skills, is an effective strategic thinker, and innovator who can provide incisive analysis, construct resource profiles, and harness concepts from a wide variety of sources to create deliverable strategies at local, national and international levels.

He has substantial experience of education training and research in the area of vocational education and training. He founded, and is the Chief Officer of, the UK’s Universities Vocational Awards Council after years of working at regional, national and international levels as a senior management positions in Higher Education. He has an extensive knowledge of 16 –19 year education and training provided by further education.
He has also undertaken work for the National Training Organisation National Council as a strategic adviser on higher education and National Vocational qualifications. More recently he was an adviser to the Employer Champions Group, a Department for Education and Skills sponsored committee engaged in assessing the relevance and value of national occupational standards and National Vocational qualifications to employers.