Chair of RLP - Jawad Ahmed

Chair of the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Learner Panel - Jawad Ahmen (FE Student from Bradford College)

My name is Jawad Ahmed and I am the Chair of the Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Learners Panel.
I am originally from Pakistan, being a British Citizen through my mother and was born and bred in Karachi. I moved here permanently just over 3 years ago and I am doing my AS Levels at Bradford College in Biology, Chemistry, English Literature and Critical Thinking.
I am the chairman of the student council at Bradford College as well as being a student ambassador and a student member of the corporation.

I joined the Regional Learners Panel when it began last year. I was one of the people who were the original members of the panel, which was a pilot. We had our training in March last year and in our second meeting we discussed our launch event. Our official launch took place at Doncaster College in November, where Caroline Flint MP, Regional Minister for Y&H, Margaret Coleman, Regional Director of LSC and many other influential people in the field of education attended.
We are an advisory panel and are there to advise the government on FE policy though the LSC. Agenda items are brought forward by the LSC who also fund the panel, and any issues brought forward by the panel members themselves are also discussed.

Our aims are simple: to give a learner perspective to the people who shape the rules that effect every learner in the Yorkshire and the Humber Region, to promote learner voice and active learner participation and most of all making sure that the learner voice is heard and taken seriously.