Jim Watson

Vice-chair of governors, Jim is Visiting Lecturer in Media Studies on the BA in Media course run by West Kent College with the University of Greenwich. He is a former director of the course and is author of books on media and novels and plays for young readers. His first degree was in History and English at the University of Nottingham and he has an MA in Education (Curriculum Development in Further & Higher Education) from the University of Sussex. He was a Page Scholar to the United States and recently was invited to lecture at a forum on global media at  Keio University, Tokyo. Jim chairs the governors' Curriculum Committee and he is governor with responsibility for Literacy and Art.