I am pleased to have this opportunity to introduce myself to the Chancellor College community. 

At the outset, I would like everybody in the College to know that I consider it a great honour to be appointed as the Executive Principal of Chancellor State College and I take up this position mindful of the responsibilities that come with the position of Executive Principal. I bring twenty-one years experience as a Principal to the position and my intention is to ensure that the students of Chancellor College reap the benefit of that experience. 

Chancellor College will face many challenges during the next few years as we engage in a process of review and forward planning. We need to ensure that current policies, practices and other infrastructure that have served the College well are robust enough and flexible enough to take us into our future. To achieve this we will need to engage in some quality assurance activities through which we measure our performance using indicators and standards that exist in similar high performance educational institutions. 

Also as we expand we need to ensure that we hold on to the important things that have earned Chancellor a strong reputation and crucial to this will be the need to protect and nurture the strong achievement ethos and the sense of community that are evident. In the same way we need to hang on to the little things that we all enjoy about small schools so that we can still enjoy them when we are at full capacity. Most of these things are found in the relationships that have been developed and the student and staff welfare practices that are so important to the good health of large organizations. 

Chancellor College is unique to a significant degree with regard to the precinct within which it operates. To my mind there is no doubt that the education of every student who attends Chancellor College should be influenced by our proximity to the University of the Sunshine Coast and indeed by the Sunshine Coast Institute of TAFE. It will be a priority of mine to ensure that the partnerships that exist with other Educational and Commercial institutions contribute significantly to the quality of educational experience which this College delivers to significant numbers of our students. 

As a Principal, I am very mindful that the most important partnership that the College has is with the parents of the students who attend the College and it is this pa rtnership that will remain a priority of mine as the College develops to be one of the largest educational institutions in the state of Queensland. My experience would suggest that the difference between a good educational institution and a great educational institution is found in the quality of the teacher/parent/student relationship and the quality of this relationship is mainly dependant upon the priority that is shown to nurturing and growing this relationship. 

I look forward to providing strong and innovative educational leadership in this College and enjoying a close and productive relationship with the parents of this College community. I will work hard to nurture the teacher / parent / student relationship within the College so that the students of this College receive an excellent education that maximizes their life chances.

Bevan Brennan

Executive Principal

Chancellor State College