Peter Lavender is the Deputy Chief Executive at NIACE where he has worked since 1999. He has been a Further Education inspector, an advisor to the committee of inquiry into provision for students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities and is one of the authors of the report Inclusive Learning (HMSO, 1996). Peter has also worked as a school teacher, a county adult basic skills coordinator and as a senior member of staff in the Norfolk Adult Education Service, managing literacy, language and numeracy programmes for adults. Peter was a member of the LSC’s Equality and Diversity Committee (chairing the disability committee), a college governor at Leicester College for six years (vice chair of the quality, curriculum and standards committee), and a Board member of the Basic Skills Agency. He is a Board member of the UK Commission for UNESCO and chairs the Education Committee. For ten years Peter has been a research supervisor for the Open University’s Ed D programme. He has a doctorate in applied research in education from the University of East Anglia and an honours degree in education. He received an OBE for services to education in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2006.
ACE Conference 2011 - Peter Lavender.pdf