Dee Kelly

Deirdre (Dee) Kelly joined OCNSWR in 2002 in the Weston-super-Mare office as a Development Officer, where she worked on the LSC funded Adult Learner Framework and the Aim Higher projects before leaving in 2006. 

After a year undertaking project work on the QCF Foundation Learning Tier with NOCN, the National Youth Agency and the QCA, she returned to OCNSWR in 2007 as a trainer in Internal Verification and Assessment. 

Previously Dee worked in two FE colleges in the South West teaching a range of mainly business related subjects from Level 2 to Level 4 (HND). As a team leader, she led the leisure and tourism department of a large college in the south west, where her responsibilities included overseeing the quality of assessment through internal verification and standardisation. Her specific interest in quality in assessment came from her Business Management degree where her dissertation topic was Quality in Education. 

More recently Dee has interpreted the new QCF standards for the Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) Award and devised materials for their delivery and for the use of centre quality assurers for two awarding organisations.

Dee continues to deliver the IQA, the IQA Update for those who hold a forerunner of the IQA (e.g. the NOCN IMA, D34 or V1 Awards), and Assessor training for OCNSWR.   In addition, she delivers similar courses for a South West college as well as NVQs in Management from Levels 3 – 7. 

Outside of education Dee works with Women’s and Children’s organisations in a voluntary capacity.  Her other interests include reading, travelling, homemaking and gardening.

For Dee's current training schedule please see our Training Calendar.

Rosemary Coop

Rosemary joined OCNSWR in 2010 as a trainer, specialising in training for Access to HE staff and Lifelong Learning qualifications.

Rosemary was involved with Access to Higher Education programmes from 1993- 2010 at several Further Education colleges in the South West.

She acted at various times as a teacher, course leader, Department Head, Education and Higher Education Development (which included line managing Access to HE) and internal moderator.

Rosemary saw the development of Access courses, first in their transition to OCNSWR as the awarding body and later through the introduction of grading.  As a teacher she delivered a range of Access units including Study Skills, GCSE English equivalence, Education and Political Philosophy.

Rosemary is now retired from full time teaching but as well as her work with OCNSWR, she also works as a pathway moderator for Humanities, Combined Studies and Education Access pathways. She also acts as an examiner for the English Speaking Board and is a question paper writer for the BioMedical Admissions Test (BMAT) and Thinking Skills Assessment.

In her spare time Rosemary enjoys reading, theatre, playing and watching tennis and following current affairs.

For Rosemary's current training schedule please see our Training Calendar.