Eteach continues expansion

Paul Howells, CEO of Eteach welcomes the addition to the Eteach board, ëWe have ambitious plans for growth and the vision, plus the depth and breadth of business experience that Denis brings with him, will assist us in achieving them.í

This appointment follows Eteachís announcement in February this year of significant expansion plans for 2004. Eteach now supplies teacher recruitment services to around 50 UK LEAs including Surrey, Pembrokeshire, Reading and Liverpool.

Over the last three years Denis developed the Go-teaching service which, with the support of the main teaching unions, provides 24 LEAs with teacher recruitment services. In March this year he merged his Go-teaching enterprise with Eteach.

ëGo-teaching and Eteach have always shared a common purpose ñ a commitment to the efficient provision of quality staff to schools,í comments Denis Burn. ëBy using Eteach technology we will be able to reduce overheads, ease pressure on school budgets and stop the erosion of supply-teacher salaries. We want to ensure that teachers - especially those in supply work - get a fair deal.ë

Denis originally trained as an engineer at Bristol University and later took an MBA at INSEAD. He worked in production and marketing roles with British Steel Corporation and Cummins Engine Company. After working as a consultant with Ernst and Young he co-founded in 1989 Gimlet e-Solutions, a consulting and software development business. He has served as a non-executive director of Dinkie Heel PLC for five years and when not working in business is Chairman of Bristol Theatre Royal and a trustee of the MusicSpace Trust which provides music therapy to children and adults with communication difficulties.