[SDG Series] Promoting Quality Education and Lifelong Learning

Dr Kate Erricker is the Assistant Director of Curriculum for the Nord Anglia Education team. She joined in January 2019 and is based at the school in Hong Kong.

d’Arcy Lunn’s dreams and daily life are dedicated to seeing a world with access and opportunity for everyone, everywhere! He has joined Dulwich in Aug 2020 in a full-time role as Group Head of Sustainability and Global Citizenship.

For the past 20 years d’Arcy has experienced more than 90 countries, given over 1300 presentations to 120,000+ people and worked with leading development, environmental, social justice and global education organisations and people. His self-initiated concept and organisation, Teaspoons of Change, focuses on the personal choices, decisions and actions that have a positive impact on people and the planet. d’Arcy worked each year around the world facilitating youth empowerment programs, supporting global citizen education and working with leading development organisations and projects including as a communications specialist with UNICEF. Among other things d’Arcy has also built two self-sufficient Happy-simply tiny homes and in 2014 started Teaspoons of Change with a 1000km walk and 1500km bike ride in Japan. In June 2018 he completed a Master’s in Peace Studies in Tokyo, Japan through the Rotary Peace Fellowship and also gives Teaspoons of Peace presentations and workshops. d’Arcy is also an ambassador, advocate and enthusiast with many organisations including: World’s Largest Lesson, JUMP! Foundation, Global Citizen, End Polio Now, UNICEF, WHO, Gates Foundation, RESULTS, the Global Education and Leadership Foundation, Live Below the Line and many others.

Victoria moved to Malaysia from the UK back in 2018 to lead City & Guilds in East Asia & APAC region. Directing City & Guild’s regional business development and operations in ASEAN, China, Greater China, Japan, South Korea, Australia & New Zealand, Victoria is a passionate and skilled leader with a proven track-record in leading commercial sales, operations teams and government-funded skills development contracts globally.

Delivering expertise around impactful collaboration with governments, employers, universities, colleges, and training providers to deliver change and capacity building to improve quality and productivity alongside maximising commercial performance and profitability.

Specialising in UK education frameworks, global vocational skills development and employability, Victoria works with stakeholders to develop future skills and facilitate global mobility.

Victoria possesses substantial strategic leadership experience gained in the UK, Middle East, and Southeast Asia in senior leadership positions. Victoria has a passion for developing and coaching people to empower and drive professional performance and development.

Victoria is very passionate about identifying and delivering opportunities to the current generation to develop and acquire skills to meet current and future global demands.

Up until his retirement in November 2018, Stephen Corcoran was Principal Lecturer (Professor) in Education and the Director of the International Short Programme Unit at the University of Chichester in the UK.

Stephen has worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in Hong Kong, Japan, France and in the UK.  He has undertaken consultancy work in teacher education for the British Council, Shanghai, the British Council, Beijing, the British Council, Japan, the University of Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate (UCLES), the Hong Kong Institute of Education, the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (SMEC), the Jiangsu Provincial Education Department (JPED), the Zhejiang Provincial Education Commission (ZPEC) and for the UK Government Department for International Development in Sudan and Togo.

Stephen has considerable experience in designing and managing customised short programmes for Inspectors of Education, Regional Advisers, School Principals, Teacher Trainers, University English Teachers, Heads of English Departments/Curriculum Leaders, Bilingual English Teachers and Secondary and Primary teachers from many different countries including the People’s Republic of China, Thailand, Spain, Malaysia, Portugal, Italy, Russia, Bhutan, Brazil, Korea, Macau, Vietnam and Hungary.

In the Republic of China, he has designed programmes for education professionals from the following Provinces and cities:

Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province, Shandong Province, Guangdong Province, Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province, Guizhou Province, Hebei Province, Hubei Province, Fujian Province, Liaoning Province, Heilongjiang Province, Ningxia Province, Hainan Province, Gansu Province, Sichuan Province, Henan Province and Anhui Province and in addition for University Lecturers and Professors from Beijing Normal University, East China University of Politics and Law and the North West Minorities University. 

As a result of this experience, the University of Chichester became an approved overseas university by the State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs (SAFEA) and was included on the People’s Republic of China’s National List of Officially Approved Overseas Institutions on 28 December 2016 (University of Chichester, ID: 174401)

Stephen’s research interests include the evaluation of in-service teacher education courses and the transitions in learning strategies made by international students when crossing academic cultures.

In addition to experience in designing and developing academic programmes, Stephen has considerable programme validation experience and experience in quality assurance and quality management.

His topic for the webinar will be quality assessment and quality assurance systems in Higher Education, the role of education in developing global citizens, the hallmarks of a 21^st century student and the structures and strategies to support international students.  Stephen will be quoting from his own experience and his own research with international students making the transition to studying in western educational systems.