By Kunal Chan Mehta, FSB’s Public Relations Manager – 10 Sep 2025
FSB is delighted to announce the appointment of Trevor Garriock as Dean of School, a strategic appointment that consolidates FSB’s commitment to rigorous pedagogy, employer-engaged courses and widening participation. Trevor’s arrival marks a deliberate step to align FSB’s academic ambitions with the exigencies of contemporary professional practice and the evolving expectations of students, employers and regulators.
“Trevor’s appointment comes at an exciting time when we continue to strengthen our academic leadership and enhance the student experience across all campuses,” said Mr Mohammed Zaidi, FSB’s CEO. “With a wealth of experience in higher education and a proven track record of academic excellence, Trevor will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of FSB, supporting our staff and inspiring our students to achieve their very best.”
Trevor Garriock arrives with more than fifteen years’ experience spanning professional education, regulatory partnerships and higher education leadership. His early career was dedicated to professional training, where he designed and delivered apprenticeship programmes and taught thousands of accountancy trainees in collaboration with many of the UK’s leading professional services firms.
In 2020, he transitioned into higher education and progressed rapidly – from Head of Programmes to Director of Programmes, to Deputy Dean – within a large business school serving in excess of 15,000 learners across a broad disciplinary portfolio. At every stage, his priorities have been consistent: educational excellence, student experience and employability.
“Joining FSB presents a compelling opportunity to fuse practice with pedagogy,” said Trevor Garriock, FSB’s newly appointed Dean of School. “I am committed to championing our excellent courses that are academically robust and demonstrably relevant to contemporary workplace practice. Together with colleagues and our partners, I intend to deepen experiential learning, broaden access and secure outcomes that matter to our students and employers.”
Trevor’s professional credentials are underpinned by a substantive career as a chartered accountant in both Big Four and mid-tier firms. Those employer roots have sustained enduring links to the profession and provide the experiential intelligence necessary to design programmes that produce career-ready graduates. Complementing this domestic experience, Trevor spent two years with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), where he led international capacity-building projects to bolster standards of accountancy education in developing economies – an engagement that both broadened his international perspective and reinforced his commitment to professionalisation and quality assurance.
What Trevor can do for FSB’s future is pragmatic and far-reaching. His immediate priorities will be to lead key initiatives to realise FSB’s ambition to gain Degree Awarding Powers, develop its own degree programmes and maintain and build on FSB’s excellent metrics with an eye on the next iteration of the Teaching Excellence Framework. Trevor is also expected to invigorate pedagogic scholarship and staff development, building a culture in which teaching excellence is robustly supported by evaluation and the dissemination of best practice.
Additionally, Trevor’s remit will encompass widening participation and student success. He brings a proven interest in inclusive access and in designing authentic learning experiences that support progression, retention and graduate outcomes. Under his leadership, FSB will sharpen interventions that mitigate barriers to success and expand routes into higher education for underrepresented cohorts.
“FSB welcomes Trevor and his appointment will accelerate FSB’s trajectory toward an integrated model of outstanding leadership in practice,” said Giedrius Zilionis, FSB’s Vice Principal. “His combination of practitioner insight, programme leadership and international perspective offers FSB a substantive platform from which to refine its academic offer and deliver measurable improvements in student experience and employability.”
Please join FSB’s community in extending a warm welcome to Trevor Garriock as he assumes the deanship. His tenure will be defined by a clear, purposeful mandate: to advance pedagogy, professional relevance and opportunities for all learners across FSB’s campuses.
For questions regarding this article or to set up an interview with Trevor, please contact the author, Kunal Chan Mehta, at kunal.mehta@fairfield.ac.
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