Our mission is to play a leading role for East Kent in developing the economic and social prosperity of the diverse communities we serve.
Ben Potter
Governor
Ben is a senior higher education leader specialising in academic quality, standards, governance, and regulatory compliance.
He has held senior roles at the Quality Assurance Agency, where he was Director of Assessment, England (leading the team delivering regulatory assessments of universities in England); at Study Group, where he was Academic Registrar and Director of Quality across a network of 15 partner universities across the UK; and, most recently, at the University of Reading as Head of Quality Assurance and Policy.
Earlier in his career, he led programme approval and monitoring at the Health and Care Professions Council and quality assurance of Higher National qualifications at Pearson.
Ben holds an MSc in Business Management, is a member of the Chartered Management Institute and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
He has served as Chair of Governors at a primary school in the London Borough of Newham and as a member of Newcastle University’s Council, Senate and Court.
He joined the EKC Group as a Governor and Co-Chair of the Education Committee in November 2026.
Our Team
We are a group of six community-based colleges
