{"id":1195,"date":"2020-09-29T09:05:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T09:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edsk.org\/?page_id=1195"},"modified":"2021-07-18T10:31:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T10:31:40","slug":"steve-besley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.edsk.org\/about\/advisory-board\/steve-besley\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Besley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Steve-Besley-pic-edit.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1192 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edsk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Steve-Besley-pic-edit-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edsk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Steve-Besley-pic-edit-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.edsk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Steve-Besley-pic-edit-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.edsk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Steve-Besley-pic-edit-256x256.png 256w, https:\/\/www.edsk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Steve-Besley-pic-edit.png 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>Steve has spent a lifetime\u00a0in education, initially\u00a0working in schools and FE before turning to writing professional development\u00a0materials and running training events.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently he spent many years as Head of Policy at Pearson where he ran a national education policy service offering weekly and monthly updates for audiences around the UK and\u00a0beyond.<\/p>\n<p>More recently he has begun working freelance to\u00a0provide a new weekly education policy briefing service known as Education Eye for the not for profit social enterprise,\u00a0EdCentral.<\/p>\n<p>He is also a member of the Leaders&#8217; Institute and a Reader for the Queen&#8217;s Anniversary Prizes for FE and HE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve has spent a lifetime\u00a0in education, initially\u00a0working in schools and FE before turning to writing professional development\u00a0materials and running training&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":90,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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