Decisions at 18 2010 - Flexibility for careers of the future20 April 2010 - 22 April 2010

Mr Anthony McClaran

Presenter Organisation

Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

Presenter Job

Chief Executive

Sessions & Workshops

Panel session - Ask the admissions officers

Biography

Anthony McClaran took up post as Chief Executive of QAA on 1 October 2009, after nearly six years as Chief Executive at UCAS.

He joined UCAS in 1995 to lead the then Academic Services and Development department, and was appointed Deputy Chief Executive a year later. He became Acting Chief Executive in January 2003 and was appointed Chief Executive in December of that year.

A graduate in English and American Literature from the University of Kent, Anthony began his career at the University of Warwick where, among other posts, he was Admissions Officer.

In 1992 he moved to the University of Hull to take up the post of Academic Registrar, with responsibility for an office which included recruitment, admissions, student records, international affairs and the internal allocation of resources. In 1995 he was appointed Acting Registrar and Secretary. 

Anthony sat on the Council of the University of Gloucestershire from 1997 until 2005 and in September 2007 was appointed Chair of Council, a post he relinquished on taking up his QAA role.  He served on Professor Schwartz's Admissions to HE Steering Group, the HE Group for the Tomlinson Review of 14-19 Qualifications, the SHA Commission on Post-qualification Application (PQA) and Sir Alan Wilson's Consultation Group on Improving the HE Applications Process. 

He is a director of the Inspiring Futures Foundation, and a governor of the John Lyon School. Anthony also chairs Gloucestershire First's Employment and Skills Advisory Panel.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Chartered Management Institute, a Freeman of the Company of Educators and a member of the Honourable Company of Gloucestershire.