It is just as well that Ann Turner feels at home at Myerscough, The new principal and chief executive spends 80 hours a week there and she's on familiar territory. "The buzz and the spirit I felt in the college was akin to the feeling that a house hunter has when they cross a threshold for the first time and know it's home," she says. But her gut instinct is tempered with cool logic. As an accountant, magistrate and IT expert, Turner knows she needs her best finance, leadership and technical skills to navigate several crisis points in horticulture education. These include improving the image of horticulture as a career and ensuring that hers is the voice that carries in the funding debate.
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