Chris began his academic career in 2005 when he joined the Microsoft Academy Team at Birmingham's Technology Innovation Centre. He has extensive experience with professional certification programmes, learning technologies and embedding employability within the Computing curriculum.

Before I started, I was a little bit worried I would feel alone. And then, quite shortly after you realise that you can actually get in touch with students support or the tutors whenever you need to, who always take time to explain everything give you what you need. We have video calls and we can email them separately or on the platform. Having that sense of community and being able to talk to my tutors is really important. And I do feel like it's a little community and I'm a year away from finishing, and I will really miss it.