New England Regional Director

Mr Gorman has held the position of Regional Director, New England since the commencement of the 2005 school year, having joined the NSW Department of School Education from a role as a School Director in Victoria.  Mr Gorman has responsibility for the Region’s 125 schools and also the leadership and management of the support staff in the Regional Offices in Tamworth, Moree and Armidale.

In addition to his role in leading the Regional executive team, Mr Gorman also oversees the Region’s School Development portfolio area, the Tamworth Learning 2020 project and is closely involved with both the Good for Kids, Good for Life initiative with Hunter New England Health and the Regional Leadership Development Strategy.

Mr Gorman also has involvement at a state level in the area of Professional Learning and Leadership.

Des Gorman has an extensive primary teaching and educational administration background in Victoria. He completed his teaching qualifications at Deakin University and more recently has been awarded a Master of Educational Administration at Melbourne University.

Mr Gorman has been a primary school principal in three Victorian schools located in the Barwon-South Western Region before taking up a senior management role in that region in 2000. Prior to his entry into the Principal Class, Mr Gorman held various positions of school leadership in rural Victoria.

Mr Gorman has played a very active role in leadership development in Victoria with extensive involvement in a range of statewide programs aimed at continually building the capacity of school leaders. He also has significant experience in school improvement initiatives, school financial management and the implementation of productive pedagogical practice in government schools.

Immediately prior to taking up his role of Regional Director of New England, Mr Gorman was working in the central office of the Victorian Department of Education & Training. His role there, as Senior Project Manager, was to design and implement a new Principal Performance and Development Model for that state's 1600 principals. He was also involved in developing a new system of principal recruitment and selection.

The report prepared by Elton Consulting was released on Thursday 20^th April 2008 by the Regional Director at the Tamworth Community Centre.  Media Release (MS Word 33kb)

Accompanying this release was the Regional Response (pdf 439kb) to this report.