Sue has had a wide range of experience both within and outside the education service. Before joining NFER, she was Norfolk’s Deputy Director of Education, with lead roles in strategic and resource management and in school improvement. She has represented the education service on a number of central/local government working groups and worked on a joint project on the development of an Index of Achievement, which presents a more holistic and rounded picture of the performance of individual schools.
Her earlier roles included: a short spell at HM Treasury where she worked on improving ways of forecasting public expenditure; work in the private sector, undertaking consultancy on information systems and IT; and in the Research and Intelligence Units of South Yorkshire and then Oxfordshire County Council, which included work on value for money studies, pupil forecasting, and development of corporate planning processes.
Sue has a degree in mathematics from St Anne’s College, Oxford, and an MSc in Operational Research from Sussex University
