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Simon Beer
Regional Development Officer, London
Simon Beer is NIACE’s Regional Development Officer for London, working to ensure that policies and programmes of adult learning have maximum impact in the region. To this end he works alongside policy makers, providers and practitioners to influence and share good practice in order to attain more different and better adult learning programmes in the region.
Simon arrived in London 1986, planning to stay just one year to complete a postgraduate certificate in education. He stayed and has been working in education in the capital ever since.
After brief spells in community arts work and secondary education, Simon spent thirteen years working in Further Education in London as a teacher and manager on vocational and non-vocational courses for adults. During this time he became involved in partnership working, primarily within the cultural sector, working on partnerships with arts/media companies, venues and practitioners. Whilst in FE he developed practical arts based learning programmes that engaged excluded learners including second language learners and adults with learning difficulties. He also gained experience in FE teacher education and development.
On leaving FE, he worked in wide range of areas including teacher education, Widening Participation in HE, local learning partnerships, arts for development, consultancy, and community radio. In 2002 Simon joined the WEA as a Partnerships Manager then regional Secretary in London, where much of his work involved trade unions.
He sits or has sat on the boards of a youth circus, a fringe theatre and refugee support organisation and a development education panel.
Simon joined NIACE in October 2005.
