Nick Foskett

An expert in education policy and management, Professor Nick Foskett was Vice-Chancellor of Keele University from 2010-2015, and Interim Vice-Chancellor of Bath Spa University from 2017-2018.

Following a career teaching Geography at secondary and further education level, Nick moved into the higher education sector, first at Aston University in school engagement and external relations roles, and subsequently as a Lecturer in Education at the University of Southampton. Over a twenty-year period he held a number of positions in the School of Education, and was latterly Professor of Education and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences.

Nick’s extensive board experience includes roles as a Trustee and Board Member at Regent’s University London, where he chaired the Finance and Investment Committee; Chair of Academic Board for the University of Gibraltar; a Board Member for the Quality Assurance Agency for HE and a member of its Senior Remuneration and Nominations Committee; an elected Council Member at the University of Southampton; a Governor of Al-Jazeera International School in Qatar; and a Director of the Textile Conservation Centre.

He has made a substantial contribution to the development of HE sector governance frameworks, both as a member of Committee of University Chairs’ working groups concerned with developing a new Code of Governance and reforming remuneration committee practice in universities, and as a member of the Universities UK Committee on Efficiency and Modernisation in HE chaired by Professor Sir Ian Diamond.

Nick studied at the Universities of Oxford and Southampton. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Higher Education Academy, and is widely published.

Nick is a member of Governance & Nominations Committee.