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Graham Hasting-Evans is the chief executive of NOCN Group which is an international and UK based education and skills charity who works with employers to support them to up-skill their workforces, support individuals to obtain certified and credentialed skills to gain employment and advance their careers.
Graham is the President of the British Association of Construction Heads (BACH) and Chair of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) Construction Sector Forum.
Career Overview
He has been involved in UK Government’s reform of apprenticeships and technical education as well as developing several Trailblazer apprenticeship standards including degree apprenticeships. This is now resulted in NOCN introducing degree apprenticeships to other parts of the World.
In addition, he has a wealth of management and management development training experience which he has used to lead several organisations through periods of major challenging change. This has been aimed at increasing productivity in both the workforce and management.
He joined NOCN as Managing Director at the beginning of 2011 and is now Chief Executive of the Group. Prior to that Graham worked on management development, workforce training, employment and skills development in industry, government and also on employment and skills programme for the construction of the London Olympics. He has also worked in government on skills and apprenticeship policy and programmes.
Additional roles
Graham is the President of the British Association of Construction Heads (BACH) and Chair of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) Construction Sector Forum.
Overseas working
His work on developing the skills of adults and young people includes time in India, Middle-East, Southern Africa and ASEAN as well as parts of Europe.
Listen to Graham Hasting-Evans's Leaders of Great Britain podcast.
In the News
NOCN Group sponsor AoC Beacon Award in 2021/22
News | Published September 12th 2022, 10:31 am
The Association of Colleges [AoC] Beacon Awards will be held from September 19 to September 29 to celebrate best and most innovative practice among the UK’s further education [FE] colleges.Read more →
NOCN Group to host Health and Social Care Summit in May
News | Published May 5th 2022, 11:13 am
Education and skills charity NOCN Group is to host a free to attend Health and Social Care Summit on May 11, 2022.Read more →
Make education and training more accessible to over-24s to help plug construction skills gap, NOCN Group boss says
News | Published May 3rd 2022, 11:57 am
Speaking on The Leaders Council Podcast, Graham Hasting-Evans, CEO of education and skills charity NOCN Group, discusses the drivers behind the current skills shortage in construction and how education and training reforms could help tackle the issue.Read more →
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