Biographical note

Jonathan Tummons is associate professor and deputy head of the School of Education at Durham University, UK. Jonathan researches, writes and teaches in a variety of fields relating to higher, further, and professional education, and his work has been consulted by qualification awarding bodies, further education colleges,  medical educators, Ofsted, and the OECD. Dr Kevin Orr worked in further education for sixteen years. He is now Reader in Post-Compulsory Education and Training at the University of Huddersfield. Aside from teaching on a variety of courses, his  research interests lie primarily in vocational and further education. Dr Liz Atkins is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Huddersfield. She has taught extensively in both further and higher education on both vocational and teacher education programmes and has also managed provision in which university programmes were taught in FE colleges.