Chairman - Mike Ricketts

Mike has worked in the field of education since the early 1980\'s and using the education methods of L. Ron Hubbard he started his own Music School using Study Technology.

His work extended to lecturing to students and parents about the value of having a method of study to achieve educational success among the ethnic minorities.

His work with B.E.S.T. started in Brixton at the same time and he continues to provide support and energy for the work that the group is achieving, and supporting work in African countries as well as the Afro-Caribbean communities in London.

Hon. Secretary - Rhoda Zeffertt

Rhoda became the Secretary of B.E.S.T. in 1981 when she went to Brixton to work with Anne Roberts running Study Technology Courses and Communication courses. Later she went with Mrs Roberts to Zimbabwe and The Gambia, giving Lectures and Training to teachers. Although retired from business, she still gives lectures on Study Technology and Communication.

Mike Billing

In Mike's own words "It was a great honour to work with B.E.S.T. in The Gambia, West Africa. We brought invaluable study skills to almost every teacher in that country. It was marvelous to see how Third World Countries recognise the necessity of education and crave it in a way that I have never seen in developed countries. Yet the need there is just as great."

"I became a member of B.E.S.T. because education is important to me. My experience here and abroad has shown me that the ability to learn is key in bringing about realistic and lasting change, for the individual and whole nations."

Brenda McQuade

Brenda has a BA Hons Oxon (Modern Languages, 1973), a Certificate in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) and also a Certificate in Sound Reading System. She is an experienced tutor of English and Maths and an experienced teacher of English as a Second Language. Brenda is currently the Manager of Effective Education Centre, Greenfields English Language College, and H.E.L.P. Centre (literacy and numeracy charity) in East Grinstead. She is also an experienced proofreader and copy editor (English Language Specialist Services).

John Bradley

John Bradley has been involved with Study Technology now for 40 years in Canada, the UK and, more recently, in India, where he worked alongside the State Council of Educational Research and Training. He delivered seminars and training courses to school students, teacher trainees and government officials within the New Delhi school system.

Veronica Tupholme

Veronica Tupholme, Dip. Ed. (Distinction), came cross Study Technology when training as a teacher in 1964 and realising its potential as the ultimate teaching tool, she has been using it in her teaching career ever since.  

In January 1982, Veronica joined Margaret Neal, BA. London, in her new school, Greenfields, Forest Row, West Sussex. Study Technology was to be a standard part of the curriculum in the school, being used by the teachers in the actual teaching process and by the students as part of their preparation for life. She was Director of Studies for 5 years and then Head for 5 years before joining the Greenfields Educational Trust.

In 2003, Veronica was involved in a project to train top professors at the University of Khartoum in the Sudan in Study Technology and has lectured extensively on the technology and related subjects such as dyslexia.

Apart from her Trust work, Veronica is now responsible for all the tutors in the UK who use Study Technology in
education in some form.

Honorary Treasurer

Hon. Treasurer - Angie Gilchrist

Angie Gilchrist has been tutoring, counselling and giving Life Coaching to improve peoples\' lives for over 30 years. She has worked in Africa in The Gambia and Zimbabwe, enabling teachers to learn skills to improve their students studies.

Advisors

Katharine Scarfe Beckett

Katharine is a freelance writer and copyeditor with degrees from London Universities in English Language and Literature and a doctorate from Cambridge University in the history of medieval European ideas about the Arab world.