About Dr Tony Degazon
Dr Tony Degazon is an international TVET and workforce development advisor specialising in skills reform, qualifications systems, occupational standards, assessment, employability, and quality assurance across the MENA region.
For more than 25 years, Dr Degazon has advised governments, regulators, employers, awarding organisations, training providers, schools, colleges, and universities on strengthening workforce capability, improving education outcomes, and aligning skills systems with economic priorities.
Dr Tony Degazon
Executive Profile
Dr Degazon has led national skills reform initiatives, qualifications development programmes, competency frameworks, employability strategies, quality assurance systems, and workforce transformation projects across the Middle East and beyond.
His work spans government advisory services, awarding organisation development, occupational standards, assessment systems, teacher development, institutional review, and capacity building for complex education and training systems.
Qualifications: EdD Teacher Education (Vocational) · MBA Educational Management · BA (Hons) Business Education with Qualified Teacher Status
Regional focus: Middle East and North Africa · Language: English
30+ Years
Specialist experience in vocational education, skills systems, qualifications, and workforce development.
15+ Countries
Project experience across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Oman, Iraq, Morocco, Turkey, and wider MENA region.
60,000+ Learners
Supported through vocational qualifications, training systems, workforce development, and employability programmes.
450+ Centres
Experience supporting training providers, colleges, employers, and institutional networks across regulated and non-regulated systems.
Professional Background
Since 2012, Dr Degazon has served in a senior regional leadership role with City & Guilds, providing commercial, operational, and technical leadership across education and skills markets in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. His work has covered leadership and management, transport, aviation, retail, hospitality, engineering, oil and gas, security, and public-sector skills development.
Before this, he spent 15 years at the Higher Colleges of Technology in the UAE as a senior educational manager, leading teacher professional development, quality assurance, educational technology, and community outreach across a federal vocational education system.
His project portfolio covers national skills reform, institutional capacity building, qualification development, assessment design, government advisory work, workforce readiness, and education system transformation across more than a dozen countries.
Areas of Specialisation
- TVET reform and national skills strategy
- Awarding organisation development and readiness diagnostics
- Qualifications, occupational standards, and assessment systems
- Quality assurance, institutional review, and regulatory frameworks
- Employability, apprenticeship, and workforce readiness programmes
- Graduate competency frameworks and future skills benchmarking
- Teacher development, capacity building, and professional learning
- Digital assessment, skills intelligence, and education system infrastructure
Representative Highlights
Dr Degazon has led or contributed to major TVET reform, qualifications development, assessment, and workforce readiness initiatives across the region. Selected highlights include:
- Awarding organisation readiness and regulatory compliance diagnostics for national TVET authorities.
- Technical qualification and occupational standards development for strategic industry sectors.
- Graduate competency frameworks and future skills benchmarking for education regulators.
- National assessment system design, quality assurance, and workforce certification programmes.
- TVET reform, teacher capacity building, and competency-based education implementation.
- Employability, apprenticeship, and workforce readiness initiatives supporting large-scale labour market participation.
Project references are summarised and anonymised where appropriate to protect client confidentiality, government sensitivities, and commercially sensitive details.
Experience Across
- Government ministries and regulators
- National TVET authorities and skills agencies
- Awarding organisations and certification bodies
- International development and donor-funded programmes
- Employers, industry bodies, and sector training organisations
- Schools, colleges, universities, and private training providers
Research and Thought Leadership
Dr Degazon contributes to regional and international discussions on workforce development, employability, qualifications systems, TVET reform, quality assurance, and future skills. His work combines practical implementation experience with academic research in vocational education, teacher development, and workforce capability.
His perspective is informed by doctoral research in vocational teacher education, senior leadership experience in the Gulf, and direct involvement in complex skills reform projects across government, institutional, and industry settings.
Working With Dr Tony Degazon
Dr Degazon works with governments, regulators, employers, awarding organisations, and education providers seeking practical solutions to workforce development, qualifications reform, quality assurance, and skills transformation challenges.
Engagements range from strategic advisory services and diagnostics through to implementation support, programme design, standards development, assessment systems, institutional review, and capacity building.
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