The Corporation

The Corporation is the independent body which decides policy and strategic direction, and appoints Senior Post-Holders for the College.

Robin Morley

Robin Morley, Corporation Chairman

Robin serves on the Resources Committee, and chairs the Quality Committee and the Remuneration and the Search sub-Committees.

He is attached to the Curriculum area for Digital and Visual Arts.

Robin is the Managing Consultant of RM Associates, a Director of Magnetic Events Ltd., on the Management Committee of the National Outdoor Events Association (NOEA), and Trustee of the Independent Streets Arts Network (ISAN).

Harry Brown, Vice Chairman

Harry Brown

Chairs the Strategy Committee and is Vice-Chair of the Audit Committee. He also attends the College’s Health, Safety and Welfare Committee, reporting back to Corporation.

Harry retired from full time employment in 2006. For 16 years he was Managing Director of a specialised insurance company, within a multinational group, which specialised in providing guarantees relating to the contractual obligations of commercial organisations particularly in the construction industry.

For many years he has been active within the Association of British Insurers and until January 2008 was chairman of two committees. Prior to retirement he was also a member of various international trade organisations which dealt with guarantee insurance.

For more than 30 years Harry has been involved in training and lecturing within the insurance indistry on his specialist subject of credit and guarantee insurance.

Jake Carroll

Jake is the Student Governor from the FE students at the College. He Serves on the Quality Committee.

Jake is currently studying IT Practioners Level 3 at City College and is in his first year. He enjoys the web design aspect of the course and hopes to develop a future career in web development. Jake has travelled around Australia, New Zealand and Europe over the past years and hopes to combine future travelling with freelance design.

Gillian Cunliffe

Serves on the Quality Committee – attached to the Business, Computing, Access, Travel and Tourism, and Science curriculum areas.

Gillian is the Governor with responsibility for Safeguarding.

Gillian has worked in Brighton and Hove as a Youth and Community worker, and taught in West Sussex as the School Leaving Age rose to 16. After a spell as a Youth Tutor at a large community college she moved to advisory work and became the County Adviser for PSHE for East Sussex and an Ofsted inspector. After local government reorganisation she decided to work for Brighton and Hove again as an attached adviser, becoming Head of Social Inclusion and leading preventative work in the City in fields of substance misuse, teenage pregnancy, equalities, anti-bullying and anti-racism.

Gillian became Assistant Director for the Children and Young Peoples Trust in 2005 with responsibility for all its work in the West of the City and for all the Youth Support Services across the City, including the Youth and Connexions Service and the Youth Offending team. She retired from that post in 2009.

Wendy Dearing

Serves on the Quality and Resources Committees

Wendy is an senior manager currently working as Executive Lead / Programme Director for Capacity and Capability / Head of Learning and Development within Sussex HIS (the IT arm of the NHS in Sussex). With a nurse background, Wendy is passionate about training and development and has seen a large number of support staff move into professional careers as a result of gaining vocational qualifications.

Wendy initially studied at the "old" Brighton Tech and successfully gained her first adult teaching qualification at the college, this led her to change her career direction from mainstream nursing into training and development and this gave her the opportunity to influence national and local standards.

As a result of her experience studying at the college she was delighted to become a governor of the same college. Outside work, she likes to travel and look after her grandchildren

Frances Duncan

Frances is the CEO of The Whitehawk Inn, a community based organisation that engages and supports hard to reach individuals into learning and employment. This successful project celebrated its 10 year anniversary in November 2009. Frances has extensive knowledge of many aspects of life in the community of East Brighton and also a long term interest in alleviating deprivation and reducing social exclusion.

Frances was a school Governor at Primary level for 8 years, serving on the boards of Whitehawk Primary and Balfour Junior schools.

Janet Felkin

Serves on the Quality Committee, and the Search sub-Committee.

Janet is currently Headteacher at Blatchington Mill School and Sixth Form College; a school with three specialisms (Performing Arts, Maths and Computing and Applied Learning). This is her second headship having led Eastbourne Technology College for 6 years.

Janet has lived in Brighton for 28 years but has experience of three different local authorities (East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton & Hove) enabling her to develop her leadership and management skills, including a two year period as an Advisory Teacher. Janet also spent a year teaching in Egypt, (a not so local authority). Janet is passionate about young people’s education and is committed to ensuring Blatch plays a full and effective role in the community; hence her enthusiasm for joining the City College Corporation.

Phil Frier, Principal and Chief Executive of City College Brighton and Hove

Phil Frier

Serves on the Resources Committee, ex-officio on the Quality Committee, and on the Search sub-Committee. He is also the ‘Responsible Director’ for health and safety.

Phil has been Principal of City College since August 2007, having been Executive Director at Sussex Downs College for four years and Principal of Park College in Eastbourne for ten years.

Phil has spent over thirty years in education and in that time has been a Chief Examiner for the Examination Board Edexcel, worked closely with the British Council leading international headteacher visits overseas and also served on a number of national and regional education committees.

Manuel Garcia-Gomez

Manuel is the Student Governor from the HE students at the College.

Serves on the Quality Committee.

Manuel is currently studying Digital Media Design in a foundation degree course at City College. Manuel is fulfilling a life long ambition by doing this course. Being a mature student, Manuel understands the importance of education. He hopes to represent student voices within the committee.

Pat Hawkes

Serves on the Corporation’s Audit Committee and is Vice-Chair of the Quality Committee.

Pat Hawkes is a retired teacher and past president of the National Union of Teachers. She is a Councillor on Brighton & Hove City Council, Opposition Spokesperson for Children's Services and is a former Chair of the Children Families & Schools Committee. Pat is also a previous Mayor of Brighton.

John Healy

Serves on the Resources Committee and the Remuneration sub-Committee.

John is a practising Solicitor and Senior Partner of Healys, a City of London and Brighton based law practice. John's particular speciality is commercial property and business law, with which he has been involved for more than 30 years.

Alison Kelly

Alison is the Staff Governor (Teaching Staff)

Serves on the Quality Committee

Alison has a degree and PhD in politics & philosophy and a background in administration as well as academia. Her specialisms include policy, research and more recently, employment law.

Alison has been teaching at City College Brighton and Hove in a variety of roles for over 10 years - initially on Access courses, then the Cert Ed & PGCE and for the last few years on courses for adults with learning disabilities. Other previous roles for the College have included lead researcher on a couple of projects and the College’s branch secretary of UCU (the main lecturer’s union here).

Tony Mernagh

Serves on the Audit Committee

Tony Mernagh is the Executive Director of the Brighton & Hove Economic Partnership (BHEP), which works with other local and regional stakeholders to devise the economic strategy for the city. He is also the Chief Executive of Brighton & Hove Business Forum, which administers the city centre management initiative and established the city centre Business Improvement District (BID) – the first on the south coast and only the second in the entire south east region.

He has held this position for nine years and currently represents the business community on a wide variety of bodies including the Local Strategic Partnership, the Strategic Housing Partnership, the Business Retention & Inward Investment Board and the Public Service Board.

Before this he was a retailer for 15 years with 5 shops in Brighton and Oxford. Before that he was the Head of Upper School at the British School in El Salvador in Central America during the civil war years between 1980 and 1985.

He is married with one daughter and lives in Hove.

Sarah Ogden

Serves on the Resources Committee

Sarah is an experienced PR and digital media professional with over 9 years experience devising and implementing award-winning PR strategies. As Managing Director of Brighton based PR firm Midnight Communications, Sarah was involved in a number of campaigns affecting the South East region and has been a passionate and public advocate in promoting Brighton & Hove as a
great place to live and work. Sarah is an active community campaigner and local fundraiser and balances her time currently with a fulltime role leading the Microsoft consumer and online PR team at 3 Monkeys Communications. Sarah is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

Peter Hofman

Chairs the Audit Committee - attached to Work Based Learning and International Office.

Peter is the Director of Company Shared Services & Integration at EDF Energy.

He is also a Director of the Sussex Innovation Centre and is on the Board of the Energy Technologies Institute.

Paul Hopwood

Chairs the Resources Committee and serves on the Remuneration sub-Committee.

Paul is a Chartered Accountant who was a specialist tax partner in a national accounting firm for 13 years before starting his consulting business in 2001. Now one of the lead facilitators for Mindshop International, he specialises in advising professional service firms on their business strategy.

Penny Hudd

Following a career as a practising designer in the UK and North America, Penny moved into higher education starting as a lecturer and later becoming extensively involved in academic management and international strategy. She remains dedicated to both design and education as fundamental to our society.

Stuart McLaughlin

Serves on the Resources Committee.

Stuart became Headteacher at Falmer High School in September 2003 and was recently appointed as Principal at Portslade Community College to start in September 2009. He is fully committed to the principle of schools serving their local community in the widest sense. It is Stuart’s vision to create a fully integrated vibrant learning community in Portslade that places the college at the heart of the community in terms of providing high quality learning opportunities and other services that the community needs and thoroughly deserves. He believes that only by fully meeting the diverse needs of students and their families will schools be able to raise standards of achievement. The PCC’s partnership with City College is a vital element in helping to achieve this goal.

Caroline Philcox

Serves on the Corporation’s Quality Committee and chairs the College’s Adult Learning Board.

Caroline is a solicitor. She previously worked both in teaching and curriculum development at Guangzhou Foreign Languages Institute in China and in travel journalism/publishing in Hongkong and London before becoming a lawyer.

Tony Richardson

Tony is the Staff Governor (Support Staff) and serves on the Resources Committee. Tony provides Support Staff Liaison.

Tony has been employed at City College since 1990, has been College Safety Manager since 2007, and currently chairs the seven College Health, Safety and Welfare site committees.

Tony is an active union member and currently represents the support staff for Unison.

Mbye Sohna

Serves on Resources and Quality Committees– attached to the Catering, Construction and Engineering curriculum area. He also is on the College’s Equality and Diversity Committee.

Mbye is an advocacy worker for the City Council providing a service for members of the minority ethnic communities as part of the Partnership Community Safety Team set up in the City. In addition he serves on the newly established Asset Management Panel of Brighton and Hove City Council.

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