Principal and Chief Executive
The current principal and chief executive is Stephen Grix. He first joined the College in 1971, when, at age 15, he enrolled as a day-release bricklaying student at the Horsted site in Chatham. He had left school with no qualifications.
He went on to complete a range of part-time courses at MidKent College and Bexley (then Erith) College before becoming a foreman. By the age of 21 he was lecturing in the brickwork department of Bexley College.
He eventually went on to become principal of Sir George Monoux College in Walthamstow, head of Ofsted’s post-compulsory education division, and director of education at Tower Hamlets, before returning to MidKent College as principal and chief executive in March 2005.
In January 2013 the College announced that Grix would step down as principal at the end of the 2012/13 academic year but continue as chief executive on a part-time basis until 2015. Sue McLeod, Deputy Principal of the College, will take over the position of Principal in the new academic year of 2013/2014. She is the first female principal in the 100 year history of the College.
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