Chief Executive
Mark Vickers’ work as a champion of young people has helped him to develop a clear and effective approach to working with school leaders and local authority strategists. He built on his success as a school leader to found Olive Education in 2008, providing strategic advice to support schools, colleges, pupil referral units (PRUs) and local authorities. Mark established Olive Academies in 2013.
Mark led Manhood Community College from 2005 to 2009, helping transform it from a school placed in special measures (November 2004) to a thriving, over-subscribed school described by Ofsted in 2008 as a “Good and rapidly improving community college.”
Mark’s work with PRUs and alternative providers across the South-East has ensured that improvements have been secured in a range of challenging and complex contexts.
Mark has also worked as a school inspector and was a founding trustee of the PSHE Association. Mark has a Masters in Education from the University of Brighton, the National Professional Qualification for Headship from the Department for Education and the Professional Qualification for School Inspectors from Liverpool Hope University.