My friend and former colleague Dame Patricia Morgan-Webb, who has died aged 79, was the principal of New College Nottingham from 1998 until 2003, and a key figure in the further education sector in Britain.
In 1992, she was one of the first women to be appointed as a college principal, at Clarendon College, Nottingham, with previous experience that meant she was well placed to face the changes implicit in the shift from local education authority control to incorporation.
