Gwen van der Velden was until recently deputy pro vice chancellor for education at the University of Warwick. She is currently on sabbatical, co-leading the Leadership for Educational Transformation programme for 40 educational leaders from Ukraine. The programme is a collaboration by Warwick, the Ministry of Education and Sciences in Ukraine and the Ukrainian Leadership Academy.
She was a member of HEFCE’s HE Public Information Steering Group that reviewed the NSS and was chair of the NSS subgroup of the Student Information Advisory Group, but here she writes in a personal capacity.