Ian Prescott
Ian Prescott (born 1951) is the retired president of East Durham College formally East and Hougall College Durham. http://www.eastdurham.ac.uk/images/stories/banner2.gif
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[edit] Early life
Born and raised in Greater Manchester, Prescott is the youngest of seven children. At an early age, his father died, and his mother suffered a nervous breakdown. He left school with few qualifications and little direction in life. To support himself, Ian turned to his natural talent in football, eventually turning into a semi and signing with Rochdale Football Club.
After meeting his future wife at a posh club, Prescott decided to pursue educational goals and enrolled into evening classes in Stockport, gaining engineering qualifications. His first job unrelated to football came as a college technician where he laid out the tools for the engineering students. While he was there, the lecturer told him he could become a lecturer too if he worked at it and offered to help.
He continued studying in the evenings and gained a certificate in education, and eventually a Masters Degree. This led to a job working for the local education authority. He earned a living and wrote a thesis on the need for re-training steel workers following mass redundancies. From there Ian gained a vice-principal role at a textile college and in 1995, he took over the then bankrupt East Durham College.
[edit] Principalship
Since his placement as Principal in 1995, Prescott has facilitated a general turnover of the College taking it from a weakening institution of less than 500 students to an established education centre in East Durham with an annual budget of about £4million, serving 1,200 full-time and part-time students.
During his tenure at the College, Prescott has focused on community outreach and fostering the growing business training programme. [1] He strongly asserts the value of the sports academies and diverse programmes of The College. He overseen and completed the recent relocation of the Peterlee campus to a brand new £37m campus which seen the merge of the previous 2 campuses which were located in Peterlee.
Ian retired from his role as Principal of East Durham College in April 2010.
[edit] Other
Ian Prescolott also sits on many advisory boards including: East Durham Business Service, East Durham Local Strategic Partnership,[2] Director of Hartlepool FC AND Durham Association of Secondary Heads
