Professor John Anderson
A qualified teacher, researcher, author and former lecturer at the New University of Ulster Education Centre, John was a national director in the UK Microelectronics Education Programme from 1980 to 1985 as well as a research officer for the UK National Development Programme in Computer Assisted Learning.
He has been honorary professor of education at Queen’s University, Belfast, an adjunct associate professor in Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, and for ten years was on the faculty of an international education summer school in Boston.
John spent seven years from 1999 - 2006 working with the five former education and library boards through the Classroom 2000 / C2k project as the strategy coordinator for education technology in schools, a further year in the Department of Education’s policy and strategy unit and as an associate for eight years with the Regional Training Unit in Northern Ireland.
He has worked variously in project management, consultancy, evaluation, research and lecturing with the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, the British Council, the European Union’s Schoolnet (EUN), The Teaching Council in the Republic of Ireland and with eight ministries of education across Europe and Scandinavia as well as in the USA, Jordan, South Africa and Japan.
John retired recently from the post of managing inspector after 35 years in the Education and Training Inspectorate in Northern Ireland, with experience in all school sectors, wider educational settings and further and higher education and training organisations as well as in the corporate management and staff development of the inspectorate.
John is now the independent chair of the ENNI (Education Network Northern Ireland) Innovation Forum, a non-executive Director of the Controlled Schools’ Support Council, and a Professional Associate with the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools.
