Skills
Teaching, Learning & Curriculum
Qualified teacher (PGCE, Level 6) with hands-on experience designing and delivering curriculum across business, IT, broadcast media, and marketing at further education level. Skilled in inclusive, accessible teaching practice, blended and online learning design, and embedding technology meaningfully into classroom environments, including AR and VR. Understands what good teaching looks like from both sides of the staffroom door.
Leadership & Management
Proven senior leader across FE, EdTech, and professional services, with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams, managing complex change programmes, and driving organisational improvement. Experienced in coaching, mentoring, appraisal, and the kind of people-first leadership that gets results without relying on positional authority alone.
Governance, Compliance & Risk
C-suite experience as Clerk to Corporation, Designated Senior Post Holder, and board-level adviser. Deep working knowledge of FE governance frameworks, statutory compliance, GDPR (Registered DPO), safeguarding legislation, health and safety, and data protection. Recognised externally — DMJ Governance Trailblazer Award 2023, shortlisted Chartered Governance Institute Champion of Governance 2025.
Digital & EdTech
Practical, hands-on expertise in deploying and managing educational technology at scale — from LMS platforms and cloud-based governance systems to immersive AR/VR environments. Understands both the procurement and the pedagogy, and has consistently ensured that technology serves learning outcomes rather than replacing them.
Business Development & Partnerships
Built employer engagement and B2B partnership functions from the ground up at college level, securing over £1.5 million in new funding. Experienced in stakeholder engagement, marketing, apprenticeship strategy, community outreach, and developing the external relationships that raise a college's profile and expand opportunity for learners.
Project & Financial Management
PRINCE2 Practitioner with experience managing complex, multi-workstream projects across large organisations. Comfortable with budget management, tender oversight, procurement, and financial governance at group level.
About
A former soldier, classroom teacher, and C-suite executive in further education, Perry Perrott brings a genuinely rare combination of front-line teaching experience, senior operational leadership, and deep institutional knowledge of the FE sector.
With a PGCE and a decade in FE classrooms and curriculum management, Perry understands education from the ground up. But his career has evolved well beyond the classroom. He has held executive roles at HRUC Group and Activate Learning, leading governance, compliance, safeguarding, digital transformation, and strategic operations across large, complex multi-site college groups — achieving an Outstanding interim inspection rating at Activate Learning and driving compliance improvements of over 32% at HRUC.
Perry has built and led departments from scratch, managed multi-million pound budgets and global portfolios, deployed immersive AR/VR technology into live teaching environments, and served as a Registered Data Protection Officer. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, a Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute, and holds qualifications from Cranfield University, PRINCE2, and the ETF Inclusive Leadership Programme.
Whether the role calls for operational grip, people leadership, curriculum knowledge, governance expertise, or the ability to connect an organisation's digital ambitions to real learning outcomes, Perry has done it, at scale, and with measurable results. He is now based in Yorkshire and open to roles across the education sector where breadth of experience, senior credibility, and a genuine commitment to learners can make a real difference.
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