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Prof. Chris Haslam has an undergraduate degree from Newcastle University, and postgraduate awards from Southampton University and the Open University in the UK. He holds a Professorship from the University of Chester in the UK..
Following a period as a senior manager in industry, Prof. Haslam worked at the University of Wolverhampton before moving to the UK Quality and Standards Assurance Agency for Higher Education. Prof. Haslam was appointed Deputy Director at the QAA with responsibility for advising UK Government Ministers on the grant of degree-awarding powers, university title and higher education institution designation. He also undertook more than 100 UK and international higher education institutional audits. During this period he was also responsible for managing the QAA’s work in relation to postgraduate education and wrote the QAA’s guidelines on research degrees and various Learning from Audit publications. He also acted as an adviser to the New Zealand Government on university title matters.
Prof. Haslam then worked at the University of Chester as the institution’s Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor. This wide-ranging role involved: business planning and performance management; oversight of the undergraduate and postgraduate student experience; managing the University’s seven academic faculties with a population of over 20,000 students; UK and international marketing and admissions; student support services; academic quality and standards; a Learning and Teaching Institute; and a Centre for Foundation Studies. In addition, Prof. Haslam was also the Executive Dean of the University’s Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences with oversight of the academic Departments of Sports and Exercise Sciences, Biological Sciences, Clinical Sciences and Nutrition, an international Food Sciences Research Centre, and the Chester School of Medicine. Prof. Haslam had responsibility for managing an overall budget exceeding €85m and a staff team of some 700 individuals. Prof. Haslam has been trained as a UK Government Teaching Excellence Institutional Assessor and is currently an Independent Governor at the Royal Northern College of Music, UK.