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Biography

Name:

• Martin Yarnit

 
Nationality:

• British

Current Position:         

• Joint Managing Director, Martin Yarnit Associates Ltd

 

Areas and Length of Expertise:

• Learning Communities and Urban Regeneration ;
• Transforming Schools and School Performance;
• Employment and Skills

 

Recent research, development and consultancy and organisations:

• Analytical study of success factors in area regeneration for Pascal,
• Review and development of plan for Employment, Enterprise and Education for Southampton
• Organisation of seminars for Department of Communities and Local Government on improving school key stage 3 performance
• Advice on improving school performance in Ealing, Nottingham and Manchester for the local strategic partnerships
• Review of DfES test bed learning communities: Building Local Initiatives for Learning Skills and Employment
• Development of national embedding strategy for DfES testbed learning communities
• Leadership seminars for Nottingham Local Strategic Partnership
• Development of a corporate/community university for London Borough of Harrow
• Dissemination of the results of an LSC national research programme on learning brokerage,

 

Qualifications, Recognitions, Positions, Memberships:

• MA in Contemporary European Studies, Reading 1969, MSc in Education Management
• Sheffield Hallam 1996
• Founder and a previous chair of the Learning City Network
• Neighbourhood Renewal Advisor for the Department of Local Government and Communities for education and employment
• Manager of Sheffield City Council’s New Deal (Welfare to Work) activities
• Technical adviser to the EU Objective 1 Education and Employment and e-learning programmes

 

Selected Publications:

• Building Local Initiatives for Learning, Skills and Employment:: testbed learning communities reviewed, NIACE 2006 for DfES
• ‘Building Schools for a Transformation’ in Regeneration and Renewal, 30 September, 2005
• Understanding Learning Brokerage, LSDA, 2005 with Darshan Sachdev and Rosie Zwart
• Taking e-learning to the people (BBC as national learning organisation) in Adults Learning, January 2004
• ‘Accelerating the Learning Curve’in Regeneration and Renewal, November 2003
• ‘Communities in the Driving Seat’ (with Jane Foot) in New Start, 11 April 2003
• Realising the Potential: Recognising Residents Achievement in Neighbourhood Renewal, 2003, for Government Office West Midlands[1]
• ‘Digital Temples or a New Way of Doing Learning’ in Headlines, March 2002
• ‘How trusts could give power to learners’ in Adults Learning, March 2002
• ‘Point of Contention’ in New Start, 19 October 2001
• ‘We should aim above the bottom rung’ in New Start, 5 October 2001
• Learning Communities – the Secret of their Success, 2001, background paper for LSDA/Demos seminar series
• Closing the Gap – Achieving Job Parity for Ethnic Minority People,  July 2001, New Deal Partnership Sheffield
• ‘Harnessing Learning for Regeneration’ – Local Work no.28, February 2001, Centre for Local Economic Strategies

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History

Member for

2 years 25 weeks