Peter has worked as a Lifelong Learning practitioner for twenty years;, starting out as a community education tutor in west London, where he held a succession of roles including home learning manager, creative writing co-ordinator and equal opportunities officer. He co-wrote a guide to London for people with disabilities (‘Access in London’, published by Nicholsons), and was appointed as a community education advisor to the Local Authority’s Education Committee in Richmond in 1993 and, in the same year, won a scholarship to look at workplace basic skills education in the USA.

He then moved to South Thames College and managed the Basic and Key Skills provision, while contributing to a number of local and regional projects including inspection visits for the BSA Quality Mark and the establishment in 1995 of one of the first Summer Colleges for year 11 children at risk of exclusion and under-achievement. In 1998, he wrote a ‘Guide to Careers in Further Education’, published by the Guardian Newspaper.

In 199, he went to Lewisham College in 1998 as Head of Key Skills and then, in 2002, moved into the role of Director of the Faculty for Foundation Studies, with a remit for Basic and Key Skills, ESOL. learning disabilities and learning support. Peter moved on to become Director of General Education in 2005, which added Lewisham’s academic programmes and their outreach adult education programmes to his portfolio. In 2005, he led the College’s successful bid for the provision of learning to offenders in South London. In 2006, Lewisham College’s provision was graded ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted.

At the end of 2006, he became vice-Principal for Quality and Curriculum Development at Lewisham College, overseeing all of the College’s assurance and improvement arrangements, including teacher training and learning and development. In Summer 2009, he was appointed as the new Principal of Kingston College and took up post there in April 2010.