CREATIVE PROFESSIONAL

Kate Ashcroft is Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of the West of England. She has taught extensively within teacher training programmes for further and adult education lecturers. For many years she worked as a teacher and advisory teacher in schools. She has published several books and numerous papers about teaching, learning and research within post-compulsory education. David James is Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of the West of England. After a variety of manual and non-manual jobs he gained a degree in Social Science at the University of Bristol as a mature student, followed by a Cert. Ed. (FE). He has taught in further and higher education since 1981, and increasingly in teacher education since 1986. His research interests include student experience, learning and assessment in a range of post-compulsory settings.