Ms Michele Sutton |
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Ms Michele Sutton Ms Sutton is the Vice Chair of Governors at Appleton and the Principal of the Academy's sponsor Bradford College. She has a long and varied background in education, particularly Further Education. She became Principal and Chief Executive of Bradford College in August 2004 and for the previous five years was Principal and Chief Executive of Hopwood Hall College in Rochdale and prior to that was Vice-Principal of City College, Manchester and Handsworth College (now City College Birmingham). Having started lecturing in Business Studies at Handsworth College in 1981, Ms Sutton left 14 years later as Vice-Principal. Whilst working in Rochdale she was also a Council Member for the Great Manchester Learning & Skills Council. Ms Sutton joined further education as a lecturer in business studies in 1980 after 11 years in industry including textiles, printing and sports marketing, she had this to say in a recent interview: “I am passionate about the value that further education colleges bring both to individuals and the communities, towns and cities in which they are located. I am a graduate of Further Education. After dropping out of grammar school at 16, I joined Doncaster Technical College to do a secretarial course, then a business course. I continued my education at Manchester Polytechnic; University of Wolverhampton, where I became a qualified teacher; and Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, USA, where I studied for a Masters Degree in Career and Human Resource Development on an Executive Leaders’ Programme with a range of top American and Canadian companies. Starting my working life as a secretary has enabled me to gain valuable experience and qualifications on the way. In addition, I have been a mature student and working mother. I have sat on many local, regional and national committees ranging from Learning Partnerships, Regional Quality Improvement Panel, The National Ecumenical Agency in Further Education and the Association of Colleges”. |
