Capital City College Group is one of the UK’s largest further education bodies with 30,000 students being taught annually

A group of North London colleges has appointed a new chair.

Capital City College Group (CCCG) runs The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (Conel), as well as City and Islington College and Westminster Kingsway College. On Wednesday (25th) it confirmed Michael Davis as the new chair of its board, starting next month.

Michael is currently chief executive officer at the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). Previously, he held several senior positions at the marketing data and analytics business Kantar, and was also boss of the former UK Commission for Employment and Skills.

CCCG’s current chair, Alastair Da Costa, will stand down at the board’s next meeting in October, but will continue as a board member until December. It is 13 years since Alastair was first appointed a governor in 2011 at City and Islington, where he was appointed as chair in 2014. He then assumed the chair role of CCCG through the mergers with Westminster Kingsway in 2016 and Conel in 2017.

Michael said: “Alastair leaves an impressive legacy of achievement behind him and a set of very big boots to fill. The board is enormously grateful to Alastair for his strong leadership and taking the group to being one of the largest within the country, delivering technical and
vocational education that allows 30,000 students annually to achieve their ambition and meet the needs of 2,000 local employers.”

Alastair said: “Having led the group to a £130m revenue institution with 35,000 students and achieved ‘good’ status with Ofsted, I feel now is the right time to step aside and let our CEO Angela Joyce and Michael lead the organisation through its next stage of development. I have been lucky to meet many of our fantastic students and witness their amazing achievements, an experience for which I am very grateful.”

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