Ralph Tabberer

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Ralph Tabberer is the owner and chairman of BBD Education.

He has worked in many roles affecting education and schools, including National Foundation for Educational Research, Department for Children, Schools and Families and GEMS Education.

Career

Between 1994 and 1997 Tabberer was deputy director of National Foundation for Educational Research.[1]

He was then appointed senior education adviser at the Department for Education and Skills.[1]

In 2000 he was appointed chief executive of Teacher Training Agency, and then Training and Development Agency for Schools in 2005.[1]

In March 2006 he was appointed director general of schools to the Department for Children, Schools and Families.[1]

In April 2009 he was appointed chief education officer and COO of GEMS Education. In 2012 he was appointed a consultant to Large, where he "worked for investors and publishers looking for Middle Eastern and global opportunities, for governments seeking reform, and for schools seeking to make their provision 'better, broader and deeper'."[1]

He is now the owner and chairman of BBD Education.[1]

Affiliations

  • Trustee, Peter Jones Foundation, September 2011.[2]
  • Chief officer, schools, GEMS Education, April 2009-January 2012. Approved by ACOBA "subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer."[3]

Education

MA Cantab, Economics, Social and Political Science, University of Cambridge 1973-1976[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Ralph Tabberer Linkedin, accessed 2 December 2014
  2. Ralp Tabberer Peter Jones Foundation, accessed 2 December 2014
  3. Eleventh Report 2009-2010 Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, accessed 2 December 2014