Professor Kevin George Mattinson

Emeritus Professor of Teacher Education

Email:: Kevin.mattinson@bcu.ac.uk

Kevin retired from Birmingham City University at the end of September 2023. He was, between October 2022 and September 2023, a Special Advisor to the University, working in the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences. Prior to this, he had been – since February 2014 – Associate Dean and Head of the School of Education and Social Work , and Professor of Teacher Education.

Having worked for ten years in secondary schools in Warwickshire and Cumbria between 1981 and 1991, Kevin moved in to Higher Education in September 1991, appointed to the position of Senior Lecturer in Business and Economics Education at Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education (this became the Crewe and Alsager Camus of Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) in 1992). Kevin held a number of positions during his time at MMU, including: Subject Lead on four-year Business and Economics Education degrees; PGCE Secondary Course Leader and Institute Lead for Employment-based Teacher Training Routes.

Kevin moved to Edge Hill College of Higher Education (now Edge Hill University) in January 2002, taking up the position of Head of Secondary Education. During his time at Edge Hill, Kevin oversaw the review and revalidation of Secondary provision and the introduction of flexible and part time PGCE secondary courses.

Kevin moved to Keele University in September 2004 to take up the position of Head of Teacher Education. Between 2009-14, he was also Pro Vice-Chancellor for Communities and Partnerships. A significant part of Kevin’s work was in Outreach and Widening Participation within Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire. He also led work on the development of Initial Teacher Education provision with the Indus Group of schools in Bengaluru, India and this work has been drawn on to inform subsequent work with partners in the UK and overseas.

Kevin has had extensive experience as an external examiner and external reviewer, at home and overseas. He has also been employed as a consultant by Universities to support their preparation for Ofsted Inspections. He was a QAA Reviewer and has, on two occasions, given evidence to Select Committees in Parliament.

Kevin is currently a Director of Birmingham Ormiston Academy (BOA) Multi Academy Trust and he has had experience of being a Governor and Director with a number of schools across the Midlands for approximately 20 years, as well as sitting on the Boards of a number of Teaching School Alliances.

He has been an active member of the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) for approximately 25 years. He was on UCET Executive for approximately ten years through a range of roles on various UCET committees and was Chair of UCET between 2020 and 2023. Since September 2024, he has been Treasurer of UCET and is a member of the Executive Committee through this role.

Although retired, Kevin continues to contribute to the field of Teacher Education in a number of ways. He acts in an advisor capacity on policy for Teaching School Hubs and University Mission Groups. He is a member of the National Trailblazer Group for Teaching Apprenticeships. He acts as external reviewer for institutional programme approvals and senior appointments/professorial conferments and is a Chief External Examiner for a University partnership.

Areas of Expertise

Qualifications

Memberships

Publications

Refereed Papers Presented to Conferences

MATTINSON, K. (1996), “Marketing Teacher Training: A study of factors in Student Decision Making”, Marketing Education Group (Academy of Marketing) Conference proceedings, Strathclyde University CD-Rom2021

CONNELL, A. & MATTINSON, K. (2008), “A reflection on the development and use of exemplification materials and descriptors to embed the revised standards for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) for England and to challenge trainee teachers to go beyond ‘satisfactory’, 10th International Conference on Education, Athens (co-author – 50%)

CONNELL, A. & MATTINSON, K. (2009), “A reflection on the development of self evaluation to improve provision in Initial Teacher Education (ITE), in the light of a revised inspection framework for England. A case study on the response to, and impact of, these developments on a successful ITE provider from central England”, 11th International Conference on Education, Athens (co-author – 50%)

CONNELL, A. & MATTINSON, K. (2009) “The use of technology to support assessment of pupils by trainee teachers and to support assessment of trainee teachers against the standards for qualified teacher status (Q standards) by tutors and mentors, on a successful initial teacher education course in central England”, 11th International Conference on Education, Athens (co-author – 50%)

ASHFORD, R. & MATTINSON, K. (2010), “Marketing Strategy in Higher Education: Deans’ Pro Vice-Chancellors’ Leadership of Marketing Strategy within UK Business Schools”, 9th International Marketing Trends Conference, Venice (co-author – 50%)

ASHFORD, R. & MATTINSON, K. (2010), “Deans’ Leadership Skills in the Positioning of UK Business Schools”, Academy of Marketing Conference proceedings, Coventry University CD-Rom (co-author – 50%)

Non-Refereed Papers Presented to Conferences

MATTINSON, K. (1996)“Student Decision making and the Pursuit of Qualified Teacher Status: Factors that Influence Choice”, Markets in Education: Policy, Process and Practice Symposium Centre for Research in Education Marketing, University of Southampton

MATTINSON, K. (1999),“Quality in Economics and Business Education in Initial Teacher Education and Training”, Economics and Business Education Association and International Economics Education Association Conference, Glasgow

MATTINSON, K. (1999), “GNVQs: Factors that affect quality and status”, Economics and Business Education Researchers Forum, University of Warwick

CONNELL, A. & MATTINSON, K. (2008),“The use of exemplification and level descriptors to embed the revised standards for QTS and to challenge trainee teachers to go beyond “satisfactory”, 4th ESCalate Conference, University of Cumbria (co-author – 50%)

Connell, A. & Mattinson, K. (2009), “The ascent of the Eiger: the journey from ‘unsatisfactory’ to becoming a Grade A provider”, 5th ESCalate Conference, Glyndwr University (co-author – 50%)

CONNELL, A. & MATTINSON, K. (2009), “The good, the bad and the ugly: descriptors, SED and OfSTED Review of Grades”, 5th ESCalate Conference, Glyndwr University (co-author – 50%)

CONNELL, A. & MATTINSON, K. (2009), “The development and use of Levelled Descriptors to support training and assessment for Qualified Teacher Status and their relationship with the OfSTED Inspection Framework”, UCET Annual Conference (co-author-50%)

MATTINSON, K.& STANNARD, R. (2009), “Masters Degree Awards within Initial Teacher Education – A case study of the PGCE at Keele University”, Franche Comte Teacher Education Conference, Besancon (Lead author – 90%)

MATTINSON, K. & STANNARD, R. (2009), “Quality Assurance within Teacher Education in England, the use of institutional descriptors to support assurance and inspection and the potential for the development of European teacher competencies”, Franche Comte Teacher Education Conference, Besancon (Lead author – 90%)

MATTINSON, K. & STANNARD, R. (2010), “Developing Reflexive Practitioners within Initial Teacher Education”, Franche Comte Teacher Education Conference, Besancon co- author – 80%)

MATTINSON, K. (2010), “Access to Higher Education and the Legacy of the Lifelong Learning network: Sustaining Achievements and Maintaining Progress in the Future”, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LLN Network Annual Conference, Shropshire

MATTINSON, K. (2010), “Creating and maintaining effective partnerships with schools and colleges to facilitate a more efficient admissions process”, Maintaining Excellent Standards in Managing Admissions to Higher Education, emap education, London

INGATE, C. & MATTINSON, K. (2010), “School and Higher Education Partnerships: Opportunities for Collaboration in a Changing Political landscape”, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) Annual Conference, Leicester (co-author – 50%)

MATTINSON, K. (2011), “The English Education System and the Training of Teachers: Models for Developing and Assuring Quality”, Indus Training and Research Institute, Bangalore

MATTINSON, K. (2011), “TDA Allocations and OfSTED Inspection Outcomes: Implications for the Future”, UCET ‘Implications of the Education White Paper for Teacher Education’ National Conference, London

MATTINSON, K. (2011), “Futures for Initial Teacher Education: TDA Allocations Strategy, Information and Communication Technology Education and the implications for the training of ICT Teachers within the Higher Education Sector”, Information Technology in Teacher Education (ITTE) Annual Conference, University of Keele.

MATTINSON, K. (2011), “Developing Leaders in Teachers: the Reflective Practitioner and the use of Competences to inform Practice”, Indus Training and Research Institute Professional Development Conference, Bangalore

MATTINSON, K. (2011), “The New ITE Landscape”, UCET Annual Conference, Leicester

MATTINSON, K. (2012), “Partnerships and Education in the Transformative process: the place of the teacher and teacher education”, Transformative Education Forum, Bangalore, India

MATTINSON, K (2012), “TDA allocation policy and its relationship to judgements of quality”, UCET Annual Conference, Leicester

MATTINSON, K & PARR, A (2012), “The development of international partnerships: Initial Teacher Education in the Indian International School context”, UCET Annual Conference, Leicester

Other Conferences/events

May 2011 Presenter - “Pooling Resources: How HEIs can work together on Partnerships”, Higher Education and Schools Partnership Conference – Ensuring Access; maintaining relationships, Policy Review, London

November 2011 Presenter - “Widening Participation: Current and Future Policy”, Widening Participation and Fair Access after the White Paper, Westminster briefings, London

January 2013: Presenter - HEA Social Sciences teaching and learning summit on preserving research-informed teacher education in the UK, Milton Keynes

Newspaper articles

DUNNILL, R. & MATTINSON, K. (1995) ‘Trotters Guide to Happy Hiring – recruitment and selection and teaching – Times Educational Supplement, 13 January (co-author – 50%)

Other

Journal of Marketing Trends – Member of Review Committee