Sally Mercer
Access Programmes Leader
Tel: 01865 759600
Email: smercer@ruskin.ac.uk
I joined Ruskin at the end of August 2018 to co-ordinate the Access courses. I also teach English so I am involved with ESOL.
I have been working in Further Education for over thirty years, specialising in adult education and in teaching learners whose first language is not English. I developed a bespoke Access course for multilingual learners and was privileged to teach refugees and other migrants who would progress to university in the UK. This experience formed the basis of a Master’s in Education (Inclusive Education) completed in 2018.
I have extensive experience of teaching English, mainly at Level 1 and Level 2, to EFL and ESOL learners; I have also taught Functional Skills and GCSE English to adult native speakers. I am an experienced course manager and I worked with the local Open College Network to develop courses and also to validate submissions from colleagues working in Access. I am engaged in developing the curriculum at Ruskin so it is more directly inclusive of refugee and migrant learners.
Ruskin College was a name that resonated with me as my father was a student here in the 1960s. My background in education gives me empathy with the learners here and I espouse the values that Ruskin represents.