{"id":77362,"date":"2016-12-16T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=58d73676844c471d64fa96786cfa0f70"},"modified":"2016-12-16T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T12:09:00","slug":"press-release-new-ofqual-chair-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77362","title":{"rendered":"Press release: New Ofqual chair announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening today (16 December 2016) announced the appointment of Roger Taylor as the next Chair of Ofqual.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Taylor, who is currently a member of the Ofqual board and has a career spanning the public sector, business and the media, will take up his post in January.<\/p>\n<p>He replaces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/amanda-spielman-confirmed-as-next-ofsted-chief-inspector\">Amanda Spielman, who will take over from Sir Michael Wilshaw as Ofsted\u2019s Chief Inspector<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Education Secretary Justine Greening said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Roger brings experience from a range of organisations, including Ofqual itself, where he has served as a member of the board. I am confident he and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/sally-collier\">Chief Regulator Sally Collier<\/a> will make a strong team.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Taylor is a member of Ofqual\u2019s Audit and Risk Committee and chairs its Vocational Advisory Group. His other board-level appointments include positions on the advisory group for HM Inspectorate of Probation and the Nuffield Health Board Quality and Safety Committee.<\/p>\n<p>He currently works with The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company and he co-founded Dr Foster, a health information business. He has also worked as an advisor to the Care Quality Commission and was a Financial Times journalist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_997\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>DfE enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Central newsdesk<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7783 8300\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">General enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              0370 000 2288\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Taylor will take up the post early in the New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77387,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77362\/revisions\/77387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}