David Jenkins-Handy

A Fellow and Chartered Educational Assessor of the CIEA since 2013, David has worked for a professional body, the International Compliance Association. He provided expertise and direction in assessments and associated governance, management systems and compliance for over a decade. He established an End-Point Assessment organisation obtaining recognition for delivery of five Standards by ESFA, has worked closely with standards developers in Trailblazer groups to produce standards and their assessment plans that received approval from IfATE.

Working with programme designers, David successfully took postgraduate diploma programmes through validation processes with University of Manchester, Alliance Manchester Business School and with the University of Law. David designed and developed quality management systems, which includes a peer-reviewed development tool for professional and vocational qualifications from level 3 to level 7, for assessment operations and the risk governance model that supports its function.

David recently started Agora Business Consulting to support education, training and apprenticeships providers in the spectrum of their diverse assessment and governance activities.