Ruth Silver
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Dame Ruth Muldoon Silver (born January 1945, North Lanarkshire) is a British academic administrator and promoter of education policy.[1] She was Principal of Lewisham College for 17 years until 2009,[2] and was chair of the Working Men's College governing board from 2002-05. In 2010, she became the chair of the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), a public body for Further Education and skills development. Most recently she was president of the Further Education Trust for Leadership (FETL).
Siver was born in January 1945; her mother a midwife, her father an engineer. She studied psychology and literature at Glasgow and the Southampton universities, through a National Union of Mineworkers' scholarship.[3]
