George Mardle
35 years experience in the education system. After work as a teacher in London and Kent he became a lecturer in education at the University of Keele. Responsibilities included programme manager for PGCE programmes, responsibility for Masters degree programmes in Education. Research and publication record particularly in the areas of mentoring in ITT. In 1997 he set up a GRTP programme at the University of Wolverhampton (one of the first in the country) and in 1999 also became a Regional Recruitment Adviser with the TTA. He worked on the DfEE working party looking at the developments in GTP and worked with HMI in the early stages of their work on inspection of GTP. He has spoken at numerous national and regional conferences on GTP development and worked with a number of groups and schools to help set up GTP programmes.



David Dickson

David has extensive experience in school and university management having worked within a number of school senior management teams. He has led the education management programme of the University of the West of England and contributed to a number of major research initiatives on Investors in People, and staff development within the Police Forces of England and Wales. David has piloted N.P.Q.H. training and contributed to a number of initiatives linked to performance review and the significance of principle centred leadership strategies in the building of capacity within organisations. David also acts as a consultant to the Teacher Training Agency on aspects of Mentoring and the recruitment and retention of staff.