Mike Craddock

Mike Craddock is a director of the Further Education Partnership with extensive experience in Further Education, especially in MIS and Curriculum, having worked in the sector for over 30 years.The Further Education Partnership are establishing a reputation for delivering high calibre, professional services and high quality interim and consultancy services to the FE sector at very competitive rates.
Mike also provides interim MIS services and operational support for MIS, including; software implementation projects, department and process reviews, delivery of BI Solutions (MIS) and dashboard/kpi reporting.

Mike Craddock has previously worked as an interim MIS consultant delivering the following projects;

• BMET – MIS restructure support.
• Southampton City College – MIS review.
• Canterbury College – Civica REMS implementation support.
• Barnfield College – MIS review and ILR / FIS support.

John Maher

John Maher is a director of the Further Education Partnership with extensive experience in Further Education, especially in MIS, having worked in the sector for almost 20 years. John also provides interim MIS services and operational support for MIS, including; curriculum planning, software implementation projects, department and process reviews, delivery of BI Solutions (MIS) and dashboard/KPI reporting.

John Maher  has previously worked as an interim MIS consultant delivering the following support;

• Alton College – Information Needs Analysis and Report Writing
• BMET – Curriculum Plan Review, Audit Support and Report Writing
• Brighton College – MIS Data Review
• Brooklands College – Report Writing
• Buckinghamshire County Council – Report Writing (Goldmine)
• Canterbury College – ProObserve and ProAchieve Reports

Andy Williams

Andy Williams is  a director of the Further Education Partnership with extensive experience in Further Education, especially in MIS, having worked in the sector for 20 years plus. Andy joins us following a successful period as Chief Operating Officer at the Brighton Film School and prior to that Director of Information Services at Croydon College.

Andy Williams has also worked as an interim MIS consultant supporting;

• Croydon College
• East Surrey College
• SiSSC – Sussex Shared Services
• Peterborough College

Andy was VP Corporate Services at City of Brighton College (now Greater Brighton Metropolitan)

Mark’s technical skills include; SQL Server, MS SSRS, SISS and SASS, Report-writing, VBA and Visual Basic, ESFA Funding – all strands, Statistical Analysis, Microsoft Excel – expert user.

Mark Powell

Mark Powell is our senior MIS business consultant, having previously worked in a variety of roles in the FE Sector, up to director level. He has had a proven track record of delivering successful outcomes, as a high calibre interim MIS consultant, for example moving one provider from a position where the ESFA had clawed back £800k to achieving 100% of its funding target and helping to increase the college’s success rate by 14%. Mark is well regarded by senior managers he has worked with and he has a very sound knowledge of ESFA funding and audit requirements.
Mark is technically very gifted, able to write operational and strategic reports, bespoke curriculum planning software and excellent in project managing MIS software implementations, UNITe and ProSolution. Prior to working in Further Education, Mark worked in the IT Industry as a Data Analyst.