Nick Linford is an expert in further education funding and performance systems and is a company director of Lsect Ltd.

His popular funding workshops and conferences have been attended by more than 10,000 staff in the last five years, and he is also author of the Complete Guide to Funding Apprenticeships (www.fundingguide.co.uk) and both the Hands-on guide to post-16 funding and the Hands-on guide to post-16 performance and data (www.dataguide.co.uk), published by Pearson.

Nick was formerly Managing Director of Lsect (www.lsect.com) which publishes the only newspaper dedicated to covering the FE sector, FE Week (www.feweek.co.uk); for which he was the founder and its editor from 2011 to 2013.

Prior to setting-up Lsect Nick, established an education think tank at the publishers Pearson, and before that was Director of Planning and Performance at the Lewisham College, during which time they achieved an Ofsted grade one.