Fairfield School of Business (FSB) is an OfS-registered higher education provider with four leaning facilities located in economic centres across England. We work with communities and employers to offer a high quality, enriching academic experiences that lead to genuine professional advancement. Foremostly a specialist provider in business and management, FSB is opening new lines of provision in subject areas aligned to regional interests, such as counselling, criminology and computer science. We are recruiting academic governors to serve on FSB’s Academic Board to ensure effective oversight of higher education delivery and academic quality. Candidates will have verifiable academic and/or commercial expertise in any subject areas where FSB promotes its education, and will be expected to robustly challenge assurances from the senior academic and programme management teams. This will include: * critically reviewing FSB’s frameworks for securing and maintaining academic standards in line with sector-recognised standards, * providing an external perspective on the comparability FSB’s taught higher education programmes with UK sector standards and practices, * appraising FSB’s pedagogic approaches and strategies for supporting students to successfully complete their degree courses, * critically appraising the School’s plans for widening access and participation, * considering appropriate responses...