The following were reappointed on 3 October 2023.
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Please note all of the Board Members listed below have declared no political activities.
Majella Corrigan
Majella is Director of Planning and Schools Provision in the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS). She has over 20 years’ experience working in education, working in adult education and training before starting her career as a post-primary teacher. She transferred from teaching to the Northern Ireland Assembly to establish the Assembly Education Service. Majella then undertook the role of English Subject Officer in the Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA), subsequently moving to work with the Northern Ireland Qualifications Regulator which included the role of Programme Manager on the Ministerial Review of GCSEs and A levels, before returning to CCEA Awarding Body as Service Improvement and STEM Programme Manager. Majella is a member of the Board of Governors of Stranmillis University College (non-remunerated) and a member of the Governing Body for South Eastern Regional College (remunerated)*.
*The post of governing body member is remunerated at £250 for a governing body meeting and £150 for a committee meeting or event sanctioned by the Chair, plus travel and subsistence allowances which are payable at Northern Ireland Civil Service rates in respect of activities carried out whilst fulfilling their duties.
Peter Weil
Peter has extensive experience of broadcasting, marketing and education at a senior level. His roles have included head of BBC Radio Ulster, head of network television, BBC North; senior vice-president, Discovery Networks International and chief executive, CTVC (part of the Rank Foundation). Peter's broadcasting career has spanned more than four decades. He has produced programmes with Sir David Frost, Sir Robin Day, Jeremy Paxman. Dame Esther Rantzen, Emma Barnett and Gloria Hunniford. Peter was head of youth programmes at BBC Northern Ireland in the mid-eighties and was subsequently appointed the editor of BBC-1's "Wogan". He launched "First Edition with Jon Snow", a schools current affairs programme for 9-13 year olds, in 1994. It ran for eight years. He also pioneered TrueTube, an on line channel which specialises in religious education and citizenship. The channel won the BAFTA award for Children's Channel of the Year in 2017. During his period as CEO of CTVC, the Company won an RTS award for best edited documentary ("Welcome to Mayfair") as well as three nominations for a Grierson documentary award. In 2000 Peter was invited to become a fellow of the Royal Television Society and in 2002, while working in the USA, he was appointed an alternate director for the Emmys committee.
Peter is currently a Governor of Stranmillis University College where he chairs both the Finance and General Purposes Committee and a member of the HR and Remuneration Committee. Peter is also on the Board of Northern Ireland Screen where he chairs the Investment Committee and the Heritage and Archive Committee. His work on both boards is unremunerated.
Heather Miller
Heather Miller is a graduate of both Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University. She has over 25 years’ experience in further education initially as a Lecturer in Business and Management and then as a Principal Lecturer in Business and Creative Studies. Following the reorganisation of the further education sector in 2007, Heather was appointed to the College Management Team of South Eastern Regional College and is currently the Head of Quality, Excellence and Development with a specific responsibility for the quality improvement of higher education within further education. Heather is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).
In 2023 Heather was awarded an MBE for services to Education in Northern Ireland in the Kings Birthday Honours.