Why Every Student Deserves a Place: Charlie Deane on Culture & Leadership at Bury College

In this episode of The Culture & Leadership Podcast, host Guy Walker sits down with Charlie Deane, Principal & Chief Executive of Bury College. Charlie shares his remarkable 36-year journey through Further Education — from teaching unqualified in 1990, to eight transformative years at Aberdeen College, to 15 years leading Bury College, home of the "Bury Guarantee": a place for every young person, regardless of their starting point. Charlie talks candidly about what it really takes to build culture, why policy (not posters) is the true engine of good behaviour, and why he'd rather have a competent surgeon than a passionate one.