A new principal has been appointed at the Isle of Man College of Further and Higher Education.
Geoff Draper will take up the post in January.
Mr Draper was previously principal at the Royal National College for the Blind, had a 30-year career in the army, where he achieved the rank of colonel.
He succeeds Professor Ronald Barr, who took up the post of chief executive officer of the Department of Education and Children in September.
The college in Homefield Road, Douglas, offers degree courses as well as further education, professional, vocational and leisure and recreation courses.
It has 5,000 full and part-time students and a budget of £11 million.