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The people behind the judgement

Two specialists.
One standard of evidence.

QualiSenseAI brings together further education quality practice and cyber security quality assurance — so curriculum, compliance and security programmes are judged against the same honest evidence.

Darren Etheridge

FE Quality & Curriculum Lead

Evidence-led quality that survives inspection.

More than ten years in regulated further education: taking providers through Ofsted inspections, rebuilding learner-journey compliance against funding rules, and leading assessment teams through sector-wide change.

Quality practice first — SAR and QIP work that tells the truth with evidence attached — with practical AI adoption and human review checkpoints built into the way we work.

Areas of expertise

  • Self-assessment (SAR) & QIPs
  • Curriculum design
  • Ofsted inspection readiness
  • ESFA compliance & MIS data
  • LMS configuration
  • AI use in quality workflows

Qualifications

  • Level 4 Internal Quality Assurance (IQA)
  • Level 3 CAVA / TAQA (Vocational Assessing)
  • ISO 9001 Internal Auditor — In progress

Education

  • BSc (Hons) Computer Studies, Liverpool John Moores University

Experience

  1. 2021 – 2026Senior Internal Quality AssurerLarge technology apprenticeship provider
  2. 2017 – 2021Freelance Internal Quality AssurerIndependent — multiple FE and training providers
  3. 2015 – 2017Assessment ManagerNational awarding organisation

Khaled El-Hussein

Cyber Security Quality Lead

Quality assurance with a penetration tester’s eye.

Khaled leads quality assurance for cyber security programmes and apprenticeship standards, working as an Internal Quality Assurer in cyber security for a national technology training provider since 2023.

Before that he trained and taught cyber security — corporate delivery followed by lecturer roles at two UK universities — and ran quality operations teams in outsourced services. His MSc in network security and penetration testing shapes how he reads evidence.

Areas of expertise

  • Quality operations
  • Threat modelling
  • Cyber threat intelligence
  • Risk registers & IT controls
  • Security incident response
  • Business continuity planning
  • OWASP & risk compliance
  • Security studies

Qualifications

  • MSc Network Security & Penetration Testing

Education

  • Middlesex University
  • University of Plymouth

Experience

  1. Jan 2023 – presentCyber Security Internal Quality AssurerNational technology training provider (London)
  2. EarlierCyber Security TrainerCorporate training and assessment
  3. EarlierCyber Security LecturerTwo UK universities
  4. EarlierQuality Operations & Team ManagementOutsourced services

How we work

Evidence first

Every judgement we write is traceable to source data — the same standard we expect in a provider's self-assessment.

Insured & documented

Fully insured for professional indemnity and public liability.

Insured with Chiswell

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