Mark Haysom

Mark Haysom CBE (born 1953) is a British former management executive.

Mark Haysom
Born (1953-09-17) 17 September 1953
Margate, Kent, England, UK
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Leicester[1]
Occupationmanagement executive

Early life and education

Born in Margate, Kent, Haysom was educated at Hazelwood School, East Grinstead Grammar School (now Imberhorne School) and the University of Leicester where he read English.[1]

Management executive career

Haysom trained as a journalist and edited weekly newspapers in the north of England. He worked in a variety of management roles at Reed International, Thomson Regional Newspapers and Trinity Mirror.[2]

In 2003 Haysom was appointed as Chief Executive of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). In 2005 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Leicester University for his contribution to business. In 2008 he was awarded a CBE for services to education and training. He resigned from the LSC in March 2009 following the suspension and crisis surrounding the LSC's "Building Colleges for the Future programme.[3][4]

Author

Haysom is an author of several short stories and novels including "Love, Love Me Do" (2014) and "Imagine" (2015).[5]

Sources
gollark: For a web-browsing/office-type system you can just run Linux.
gollark: As I said, the RX 570 is a pretty good budget GPU as long as you have a spare PCIe power connector.
gollark: That doesn't matter for GPU upgrades though.
gollark: It's LGA1151 (v1), given the CPU.
gollark: The best CPU you could get on that board is probably then the i7-7700K, which is at least two generations outdated at this point so probably horribly expensive.

References
  1. "University of Leicester Graduate is New Head of Learning and Skills Council". University of Leicester. October 2003. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  2. "Mark Haysom: Intolerance works for the man with skills in his hands". The Independent. 24 October 2004. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  3. Kingston, Peter (23 March 2009). "Colleges head quits over botched building programme". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  4. "College funding fiasco boss quits". BBC News. 23 March 2009. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  5. "Mark Haysom publications". Little, Brown. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
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