What I Do
Strategic assessment expertise across qualifications, apprenticeships and quality assurance.
View ServicesAssessment and quality expertise grounded in 25 years of experience.
I help awarding organisations, providers, training organisations and sector bodies navigate vocational and technical education challenges with confidence.
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25 years of experience and independent advice you can trust.
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The background, qualifications and approach behind Capall Mara.
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Assessment Strategy
Independent, experienced advice on getting your assessment approach right, and knowing when it isn’t.
Learn moreQualification Development
Designing and reviewing qualifications and assessment materials that hold up to scrutiny.
Learn moreApprenticeship Support
Specialist guidance across the full apprenticeship assessment journey, from design through to delivery.
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Practical support to strengthen your systems and walk into external review with confidence.
Learn moreLand-based Education
Sector knowledge that comes from years inside it, not from the outside looking in.
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An honest, experienced outside view when internal teams are too close to see it clearly.
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Workshops, guidance documents and briefings that make complex requirements usable.
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If it doesn’t quite fit the list above, get in touch anyway. Much of my best work started that way.
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Experience, Expertise, Integrity.
Strategic insight and practical know-how, built on decades of senior experience across awarding organisations, colleges and sector bodies.
- A PhD and a career spent staying close to how education actually works
- Independent advice to providers, regulators and employers alike
- Senior leadership experience, including sector governance roles
- A reputation for clear thinking and fairness
“Robin combines deep technical knowledge with a practical understanding of how assessment and quality assurance work in the real world.”
Latest Insights
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The shifting quality assurance challenge in apprenticeship assessment in England
Read more: The shifting quality assurance challenge in apprenticeship assessment in EnglandApprenticeship assessment reform creates a more integrated quality assurance challenge for assessment organisations.
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Insider information, crystal ball gazing or bold marketing in a consultation world?
Read more: Insider information, crystal ball gazing or bold marketing in a consultation world?In a consultation-heavy education landscape, confident announcements about future qualification offers need careful interpretation.
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Assessment Strategies: a demonstration of assessment literacy or painting by numbers?
Read more: Assessment Strategies: a demonstration of assessment literacy or painting by numbers?Ofqual’s requirement for awarding organisations to produce and maintain assessment strategies for apprenticeship assessments is more than a…
Co-author, Agriculture, Environment and Animal Care
A core text for land-based education, published by Hodder Education and written with Sally Green.
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Whether you need expert advice on assessment, qualifications, curriculum or quality, I’m here to help.