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Helena Marsh, executive principal, Chilford Hundred Education Trust

Helena Marsh is scouring the SSAT conference programme looking for a suitable interview time. She’s one of the opening…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Toby Salt, Chief executive, AQA

Stag’s Hill in Guildford is an address known to the many secondary teachers who have submitted GCSE coursework to…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Christine Counsell, Director of Education, Inspiration Trust

Norfolk-based Inspiration Trust is proud of its reputation as a “knowledge-based” multi-academy trust – evidenced by one of the…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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David Benson, Principal, Kensington Aldridge Academy

This isn’t supposed to be a story about Grenfell Tower. It’s supposed to be the story of David Benson,…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Daisy Christodoulou, Director, No More Marking

The Charles Dickens Museum café is a pertinent location to meet Daisy Christodoulou, the author of the enduringly popular…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Matt Hood – Director, Institute for Teaching

For a man in his early 30s, Matt Hood has had a lot of jobs. But as the inaugural…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Sam Twiselton, Director, Sheffield Institute of Education

Sam Twiselton narrates the Carter Review of initial teacher training as a satisfying morality tale of evidence over ideology….

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Tom Ravenscroft, CEO, Enabling Enterprise

Tom Ravenscroft is perhaps the most quietly passionate proponent of a “skills” curriculum in education today – and if…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Lewis Iwu, former director, Fair Education Alliance

Last year, when the grammar schools policy flooded media channels, Lewis Iwu stepped up to speak on radio, television…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Mark Lehain, Director of Parents and Teachers for Excellence

Standing in line at the Café Nero one street down from the Department for Education, a message pops onto…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Anthony Seldon, vice-chancellor of Buckingham University and former Master of Wellington College

Anthony Seldon recently failed to get the government to agree to a new leadership college he would run. Undeterred,…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Chris Jansen, chief executive, Cognita Schools

Cognita Schools is a rare thing: a turnaround private school chain, a phenomenon more commonly discussed in relation to…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney

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