Role
As Head of Flexible and Work-Integrated Learning within the Centre for Academic Development and Quality (CADQ), Samuel is responsible for leading flexible and online courses, lifelong learning, continuous innovation for new methods of delivery of education, and work-integrated provision. Samuel manages the Apprenticeship team, which is accountable for apprenticeship funding, regulatory compliance and external engagement, and the Flex team, who manage the institutional Virtual Learning Environment and design and develop online provision at NTU. In support of this, Samuel acts as Chair for the Online Learning Governance Committee.
Career overview
Samuel has a proven track record of effective educational leadership across further and higher education over the last two decades. He began his career teaching Music Technology at Loughborough College before moving to learning technology support roles. Samuel then returned to teaching, working as the Curriculum Manager for Creative Arts and Computing at Aylesbury College.
Since joining NTU in 2014, Samuel has worked as the Learning and Teaching Support Unit Manager in the School of Arts and Humanities before taking up online and flexible learning-related roles in the Centre for Academic Development and Quality in 2016. Samuel has overseen NTU's Virtual Learning Environment since 2016, working closely with schools and professional services departments to ensure NTU has the highest quality digital learning tools to support excellent teaching, learning, and assessment. In 2020, Samuel set up the Flex Team, a Learning Design unit created to design and develop high-quality online education to move NTU towards a flexible delivery model that gives students choice over how, when, where, and what they study. In 2022, Samuel took leadership of the Apprenticeship team to develop the fast-growing provision into a mature and thriving area of NTU.