Ian Prescott

Ian Prescott, (1952- ) is the current president of East Durham and Houghall Community College.

Early life

Born and raised in Greater Manchester, Prescott is the youngest of seven children. At an early age his father died and his mother suffered a nervous breakdown. He left school with few qualifications and little direction. To support himself, Ian turned to his natural talent football, eventually turning semi-pro and signing with Rochdale Football Club.

After meeting his future wife at a posh club, Prescott decided to pursue educational goals and enrolled into evening classes in Stockport gaining engineering qualifications. His first non-football job came as a college technician where he laid out the tools for the engineering students. While he was there the lecturer told him he could become a lecturer too if he worked at it and offered to help.

He continued studying in the evenings and gained a certificate in education, and eventually a Masters Degree. This led to a job working for the local education authority. He earned a living and wrote a thesis on the need for re-training steel workers following mass redundancies. From there Ian landed a vice- principal role at a textile college and then, in 1995, he took over the then bankrupt East Durham College.

Principalship

Since his placement as Principal in 1995, Prescott has facilitated a general turnover of the College taking it from a weakening institution of less than 500 students to an established education centre in East Durham with an annual budget of about £20million, serving 3,200 full-time and 22-24,000 part-time students.

During his tenure at the College, Prescott has focused on community outreach and fostering the growing business training programme. [http://www.rtsinc.org/benchmark/profiles/profile_8.pdf] He strongly asserts the value of the sports academies and diverse programmes of The College. His current project is overseeing development plans for a future £24million new college to be built.

Personal interests

Mr. Prescott very much enjoys football.
His favorite author is Holly Baker and enjoys Reggae music.
During summer break he spends time at his family retreat in the Nisha foothills.
Ian's shoe size is 11.
Favorite American actor is none other than Chuck Norris.
His personal hero is his older brother.

Other

Ian Prescott also sits on many advisory boards including:East Durham Business Service,East Durham Local Strategic Partnership, [ [http://www.easington.gov.uk/images/app1_tcm4-9391.pdf East Durham Local Strategic Partnership Constitution ] ] and Durham Association of Secondary Heads

External links

* [http://www.edhcc.ac.uk/ East Durham & Community College Homepage]
* [http://www.nba.com/jazz/ Ian's Drug of Choice]

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