Isabel was born and brought up in Silsden and is now happily back home, living in Harrogate since 2020.
After a career in the qualifications, assessment and quality assurance sector, including being NCFE’s Chief Executive, Pearson’s Regulation, Standards & Research Director and Chair of the Federation of Awarding Bodies (FAB), Isabel now works as an independent education & skills consultant and is a busy non-Exec.
She chair’s IfATE’s Independent Assessment Panel, CIPS Awarding Body Board and City & Guilds Quality & Standards Committee and is also an AQA trustee.
She is passionate about the role assessment and qualification structures should play in supporting the lifelong learning and skills needs of learners and, on joining NCFE in 1990, she became – and continues to be – an ardent champion of FE.
Isabel is an Oxfam volunteer and a keen walker.