Peter Williams (educationalist) explained

Peter Williams
Honorific Suffix:	CBE
Birth Name:	Peter Robert Williams
Birth Date:	1948 4, df=yes
Birth Place:	Oxford, England
Nationality:	British
Education:	University of Exeter
Occupation:	Educationalist
Years Active:	1970 -

Peter Williams CBE (born 20 April 1948) is the former Chief Executive of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA),^[1] and the current Honorary President of the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education (BAC). He was given a CBE for his services to higher education in 2009.^{[2] [3]}

Education

Peter Williams attended the City of Oxford High School for Boys and has a degree in English from the University of Exeter.^[4]

Career

• 1969 Management Trainee, Hazell, Watson and Viney (printers)
• 1970 Registry office, University of Surrey
• 1974 Higher Degrees Office, University of Leicester
• 1978 Assistant Registrar, Medical School, University of Leicester
• 1982 Secretary, Medical School, University of Leicester
• 1984 Deputy Secretary, British Academy
• 1990 Director (first and only), Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom (CVCP), Academic Audit Unit (AAU)
• 1992 Director of the Quality Assurance Group of the Higher Education Quality Council (HEQC)
• 1997 Director of Institutional Review in the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA),
• 2001 Acting Chief Executive, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA)
• 2002-2009 Chief Executive of QAA
• 2005-8 President, European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education ([<nowiki/>[[ENQA]]])
• 2009 Retired
• 2009-2016 Governor, Vice-chair and Chair of Audit Committee, Cardiff Metropolitan University
• 2011-2017 Member, Education Honours Committee
• 2012-18 Chair, British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education
• 2019 - Honorary President, British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education
• 2012-19 Trustee, Richmond The American International University in London
• 2014-15 Master, Worshipful Company of Educators
• 2017- Trustee, Norfolk Archives and Heritage Development Foundation (NORAH)
• 2017-2022 Chair, Norfolk Archives and Heritage Development Foundation (NORAH)
• 2018 - Trustee, The Educators' Trust https://educatorscompany.org/trust-administration/
• 2023 - Trustee, Heritage Education Trust

External links

• Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Birthday's today. https://web.archive.org/web/20120426082521/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2012-4-20.html . dead . 26 April 2012 . The Telegraph. 20 April 2014. 20 April 2012. Mr Peter Williams, Chief Executive, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, 2002–09, 64 .
2. News: This is Gloucestershire. QAA boss gets CBE. 20 April 2014. Gloucester Citizen. 17 June 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924040852/http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/QAA-boss-gets-CBE/story-11890037-detail/story.html. 24 September 2015. dead.
3. Web site: Press release - exciting changes at the BAC (20/11/12). British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education (BAC). 20 April 2014. 20 November 2012. https://archive.today/20140420022040/http://www.the-bac.org/news/blog/new_chair. 20 April 2014. dead.
4. Web site: Mr Peter Williams. World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), Qatar Foundation. 20 April 2014.