Professional Biography

Paul Rogers qualified as a teacher in the early 1970s and taught in the UK state system for nearly ten years.  He then moved overseas and into adult education, dealing with a variety of tertiary education and training institutes such as Universities, Military Training Colleges and Vocational Education training providers, in both the public and private sectors.

He took a UK Master's. degree in the mid 1980s, a US Doctorate in the early 90s, and has presented papers on subjects as diverse as teacher training, online learning and modern assessment methodology at various prestigious conferences around the world.

He has written teacher training programmes for Aston University and has worked closely with both Leeds and Southampton Universities in the UK, as well as the RAND Corporation (Education Division) in the USA, when he was Programme Manager for Initial Teacher Training in the Gulf state of Qatar. 

He has worked in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, as well as from his home base in Cyprus, covering the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East as an Educational Consultant.

He is a member of TESOL and TESOL Arabia as well as being a committed Rotarian.  He has been running his own Online Learning Centre since 2002 which has been widely used throughout the Middle East region. His recent special projects include teacher and trainer training, materials' development and all aspects of online and blended learning.

In 2007, he was elected a Fellow of the Institute for Learning, the UK's main regulatory and quality assurance organisation for Further Education.  In the same year, he became a Fellow of the College of Teachers, at the Institute of Education, London University.

In April, 2009, he returned to the GCC region, where he is based in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. His blog is updated on a fairly regular basis, ideally once a week, and he welcomes comments, thoughts and ideas from anyone who wishes to contribute.