Jane Down's Profile
My C.V.
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Married with one son age 30 who is a Fund Manager in London Degree and other qualifications
Finally, in December 1998 I successfully completed the OHMCI training course for professional team members of secondary inspections in Wales. Path to Ultralab: 1973 - 1988 Cymer Afan Comprehensive School – a small comprehensive school in West Glamorgan. Subject: Home Economics / Textiles 1988 - 1990 Teacher Adviser for IT in Home Economics 1990 – 1997 Teacher Adviser for Design and Technology ( Key Stages 1, 2, 3, 4, GNVQ and post 16, including IT applications). 1998 - 1999 Advisory Teacher for the Tesco SchoolNet 2000 project 2000 - 2003 Principal Facilitator, National College for School Leadership / Talking Heads for Ultralab 2003 - Present position: Principal Lecturer / Learning Facilitator for Ultraversity, – http://ultraversity.net . Examination Experience 1993 – 1997 City and Guilds: Consultant and Chief Examiner for Design and Technology suite of syllabuses. In addition I was the Principal Examiner for both the Technology and the Design and Technology Food syllabuses, and for two years I was largely responsible for writing the Graphics examination papers. Inspection Experience / Estyn [Wales] Specialisms: D & T and related subjects; GNVQ related subjects and IT / ICT. 30 inspections in total to date including core team inspections and subject inspections Publications 1991 / 1992 Homing in on Technology: Set A & Set B published by Blackie 1997 GCSE Technology: Textiles, Quaternary Education for TEP (CD-ROM) 1998 GNVQ Manufacturing, Quaternary Education (CD-ROM) 1999 Textiles Technology to GCSE, Oxford University Press 2001 GCSE Textiles Technology in Diagrams, Oxford University Press Hobbies and Interests Family history, golf and oil painting. E-mail: jane@ultralab.net or janedown@btinternet.com |
More personal bits and piecesThe GCSE text books I authored and still currently available from OUP. Stephen Powell and me at BETT 2006, enjoying the new camera facility for Podcasting!
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