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The Lewisham College Board ensures that there is scrutiny and oversight of the curriculum and student experience.

Jamie Stevenson

Jamie joined NCG as Principal of Lewisham College in August 2023. He brings more than 20 years of experience to the role.

In his previous role, Jamie led the Strategic Development Fund for Central London Forward sub-region, securing funding of £2.7 million for the sector, creating a partnership with central London FE colleges to develop low-carbon technology labs and skills training toward achieving net-zero.

Previously, he was a Strategic Lead for responding to large regeneration projects including Battersea Power Station, Thames Tideway and Crossrail, adult skills, apprenticeships, partnerships and stakeholder engagement. Other notable achievements include being elected as Chair for the Kent Association of Training Providers (KATO) and the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Provider Network (HPN), whilst also setting up one of the ten pilot apprenticeship training agencies.

Simon Russell

Simon was born and raised in Glasgow. He joined the John Lewis Partnership as a graduate from St Andrews University. His early career focused mainly on the business’ operational management including Managing Director of its Sheffield and Bluewater branches. He led the £22m refurbishment including the introduction of a new Foodhall in 2009 at Bluewater. In January 2010, he became John Lewis’ first Head of Multi-Channel leading the integration of a growing and significant online / digital channel with a successful established Department Store business aiming to give customers a seamless experience regardless how they shop along with leading the online programme to turbo charge online sales. In March 2012, he became Director, Retail Operations Development where he is responsible for the ‘shop of the future’ vision from both a customer experience point of view and a business operating model along with the delivery of all retail programmes including the key IT Omni Channel infrastructure and inherited the omni channel team back. In 2018, he became Director of Operations Development extending his previous role to include Supply Chain and contact centre development, in addition to Retail, giving an end to end strategic, development and central support for all John Lewis Operations and has led a major transformation and change in recent years. After a long and successful time at John Lewis, Simon left to pursue new challenges in February 2020.

Simon has also been an active member of global leadership company Common Purpose since 2003. He was appointed Chairman of Common Purpose Customised and has been a Trustee and Director of Common Purpose UK since 2013.

Kim Powell

Kim started her career as a social worker, completing her training at Brunel University.  Since then, Kim has gone on to work in various community outreach with many charities. She has worked on European social funded projects, helped training centers in London become accredited to deliver Basic skills and ESOL classes, and is also fully accredited as an IT tutor.  Kim is a former student of Lewisham College, having completed a management evening course which she really enjoyed. Kim now works for a large charity, managing 30 community outreach projects that range from food insecurity, youth support and health.

Kim resides in Lewisham with her husband and children and is a proud daughter of the Windrush generation. Her mother was a nurse at Lewisham Hospital and her father was a local electrical engineer, so she has always been a strong local advocate for Lewisham. As a Cllr for Hither Green ward and Cabinet Member for Jobs, Skills and Employment, she has a vast portfolio that includes local economic development, youth employment, markets, licensing and further and higher education, to name but a few.

Linlin Jin

Linlin has been a qualified accountant for 13 years working in Audit, Corporate Finance and Education Consultancy. She works extensively across risk assurance, financial due diligence, compliance, corporate governance review, strategic planning, and financial budgeting. She holds a BSc in Economics from University of Warwick. She is currently a director at PKF Littlejohn LLP.

In addition to the technical work, Linlin also leads the marketing of her firm in the Far East and oversees the daily management as part of the leadership team. She has experience in business operation, human resource, and coaching and mentoring.

With critical thinking and professional scepticism, Linlin supports both commercial and not-for-profit organizations with independent perspective and constructive suggestions to help them achieve goals and deliver results.

Having lived in Lewisham, Linlin understands the local community, the opportunities and the needs. She believes that education connects people to opportunities that can be life changing; she is passionate about helping people achieve their potential through education whilst growing as an individual.

She hopes to contribute to Lewisham College in the capacity of college governor. She is eager to learn and is fully committed to fulfil the responsibilities and duties of the role.

Phoebe Juggins

As a chartered professional planner, Phoebe has worked for a range of clients (including Universities, land promoters, developers and pension funds) at a large multi-disciplinary consultancy. Previously at the Department for Education within the planning team, Phoebe worked on policy matters across the South East and provided operational advice as well as having a good overview of planning and development in relation to the education sector, as the lead Planner at Thames Water, Phoebe worked on infrastructure and development projects across the Thames Water estate. She now works for the developer Aitch Group, working on mixed-use, residential and student accommodation schemes across London. On a personal basis, Phoebe is passionate about encouraging widening participation in education, having volunteered for a charity undertaking mock university interviews for the last couple of years.

Deavon Bakey-Oxley

Councillor Dr Deavon Rose Baker-Oxley believes that good and outstanding further education providers can give all of their learners the opportunity to achieve and excel in their chosen fields.

She worked in the public sector for over 35 years, including 20 years in Further Education, in several roles and 9 years in education inspection. Previously Deavon worked in the NHS for 10 years. She developed a passion for learning during this time and over the years studied and achieved Registered General Nurse (RGN) and Registered Health Visitor (RHV), a Master’s in Education Management, a Master’s in Business Administration and in 2019 a Doctorate in Education. She has the commitment and interest to be a positive board member.

Nina Mirzaei

Nina first studied at Lewisham College in 1998. Nina chose Lewisham College because it was the best college in South London in her opinion. After completing her course in Advanced English, Nina went on to university and graduated with an LLB hons, in Law in 2008. Since then, Nina has worked as a volunteer, a student support worker and, after completing CELTA in July 2009, as an ESOL teacher in Lewisham College. Since 2015 Nina has been working as a progress coach to ESOL young learners.

Fiona Fraser

Fiona was brought up in the Scottish Highlands and moved to Edinburgh to attend university aged 18. Fiona joined Lewisham college in November 2013, Fiona has worked in the Supported Learning Department since. Currently working as the High Needs Support and Funding Manager. Fiona has mostly worked in social care settings over the last 27 years, such as: social work departments, prisons, psychiatric hospitals and mental health units. She qualified as an Art Therapist in 2002 and decided to take a sabbatical and go travelling. On her travels, amongst other adventures she worked in various jobs paid and unpaid, in: Nigeria, Thailand, New Zealand, Fiji and fulfilling a lifelong dream she also worked as a scuba diving instructor for a year on The Great Barrier Reef in Australia, another passion of hers. Fiona also has a passion to work with and advocate on behalf of and give a voice to, disadvantaged and underrepresented members of our community and society at large.

For the latest Board minutes and information on the NCG Governors please visit our Group governors' website.

Read more about financial information relating to projected and actual income and expenditure, procurement, contracts and financial audit at NCG here.

Read the most recent NCG Financial Statement here.

For further information regarding the Lewisham College Board, please contact:

David Balme, Clerk to the Board

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Lewisham College is closely monitoring all communications and guidance as it becomes available. This information is for students and staff and reflects updates from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Public Health England (PHE). We are prepared to escalate our contingency arrangements in the event of change.

The government is monitoring the situation closely and will continue to work with the WHO and international community. For staff and students it remains business as usual across our sites and our workplaces.

Please note that, at present, this advice refers only to arrivals from Wuhan, and not the remainder of China. If you have returned from Wuhan you should:

General guidance for those planning visits to Wuhan or other destinations in China

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) maintains updated travel advice for those planning a trip to Wuhan or other destinations in China. This is available at:

www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/china

Note

This advice is derived from The Department of Health and Social Care will be publishing updated data on a daily basis at 2pm until further notice:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-information-for-the-public#situation-in-the-uk

Supplementary Q&A for individuals wishing to know more around how the UK is managing the risk:

https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2020/01/23/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-what-you-need-to-know/