Meet the staff

Alan Scorer

Alan has always lived and worked in the Warwickshire area, running agricultural businesses and offering sheep shearing services. Alan is curriculum leader for agriculture and countryside, teaching sessions including livestock production, estate skills, machinery and game management. He works closely with associations such as the NAAC, National Trust, British Wool Board and BASC.

Mike Fairclough

Mike studied agriculture before working in the industry. He then worked as a groundsman and estate worker before moving on to train and assess young people in horticulture. He then ran a horticultural training agency for a Birmingham charity, before coming to Warwickshire College. He is now a course tutor and curriculum leader for work-based learning programmes.

Jonathan Clarke

Jonathan was curriculum leader in agriculture at the college before securing his current role of Farm Manager. As well as managing the farm, Jonathan teaches livestock management to students. Prior to working for the college, Jonathan worked for a number of large livestock farms in the UK and Canada as well as the Cambridge Veterinary School.

Diane Whitehouse

Technical Academy leader for the agriculture and countryside programmes, Diane has a farming background but has developed an academic career in environmental management and sustainable land use. She also has a PhD in entomology.  She has a long history working in the delivery of higher education, and lectured at Coventry University before joining Warwickshire College.

Cecilia Dean

Course tutor for countryside management, Cecilia worked in the food industry as a technical manager for several years.  She moved into high school teaching and taught all sciences to GCSE and A level Biology and Chemistry. Brought up in the countryside, she was keen to move into the agricultural sector. She also has two horses which she competes from the college.

Ben Pipe

A countryside management tutor, Ben studied a degree in environmental conservation and countryside management at Nottingham Trent University. He later gained experience working within the countryside management and agricultural sector, whilst running his own business. He is interested in all aspects of countryside management, from habitat surveying to chainsawing!