Author
Anne-Marie Canning
Opportunity Mission Challenge Director
Anne-Marie Canning MBE is currently Opportunity Mission Challenge Director at UKRI, working to improve outcomes for people and places across the UK by identifying solutions that promote economic and social prosperity. She was previously the Chief Executive Officer of the Brilliant Club, a UK-wide university access charity focused on increasing the number of less advantaged students accessing the most competitive universities and supporting them to succeed when they get there. In 2018, she was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to higher education.
In recent years, Anne-Marie was the independent chair of the Department for Education’s Bradford Opportunity Area. She now leads a broad-based coalition of organisations in Bradford who are working together to improve opportunities for young people in the city – the Education Alliance for Life Chances.
Between 2012 and 2019, Anne-Marie was the Director of Social Mobility and Student Success at King’s College London. In this role, she founded an award-winning parental engagement endeavor called Parent Power. Anne-Marie has previously worked at University College Oxford and holds a University of Oxford Teaching Award. Anne-Marie is also a trustee of the Child Poverty Action Group.
5 pieces
Newest first, since June 2017
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Higher education needs to earn back the trust of white working class families
The independent inquiry into white working class educational outcomes found a lack of trust in higher education, not in aspiration. Anne-Marie Canning explains
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Empowering parents on education
Anne-Marie Canning describes how community organising, and her own mother, inspired her to empower parents
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No child goes hungry on campus
What feels like an easy way to cut a budget can have a serious impact on school visitors. Anne-Marie Canning urges you not to cut catering for events
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Widening participation matters too much for Covid-19 to shut it down
A punk-DIY ethic is needed if we’re not to lose what’s been achieved in HE participation, says Anne-Marie Canning.
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Should universities raise school attainment? Yes, and here’s why
Many university leaders have been uneasy about the Conservatives’ plans to enforce school sponsorship. Anne-Marie Canning argues that instead, universities should embrace the challenge to help raise attainment in schools