Bev Joicey
Bev Joicey is an assessor to the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) for Specialist Arts Colleges. Last year he co-wrote the Guidance for Gifted and Talented Pupils in the Arts for the DfES and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). He has produced a number of reports for NESTA including a on the proposed education programme for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and took part in the BSF seminar organised by the think-tank DEMOS on behalf of the DfES Innovations Unit. He is currently assessor for NESTA of a Contemporary Art Project run by Goldsmiths College and the Tate Gallery. Last year he was Visiting Lecturer for Art at University College, Lincoln and is the current National Society for Art and Design (NSEAD) representative for Higher Education.
Last year, he co-directed the OfSTED Primary Arts Inspection Training Programme, was an RGI for Primary and Secondary Inspection and an additional inspector with OfSTED for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and Creativity. He was the co-assessor of Creative Partnerships (Manchester/ Salford) for Arts Council England (ACE) and assisted with the overall review of the National Creative Partnerships initiative.
He was an HMI for 14 years and was previously an LEA Adviser, Lecturer in initial teacher education and taught in a variety of schools. He was a Chief Examiner for Art and Design and has written a number of reports and publications. He has just completed a text on projects related to school building. He is currently a school governor, an executive director of the local business partnership and a director and trustee of the Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, Yorkshire, with whom he has responsibility for education. In this context, he was Director of Stories Alive, a story telling project for North Yorkshire schools. He has recently been invited to become a trustee for Seven Stories, the children's book centre in Newcastle.