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Sue Bailey, assistant head, Arthur Terry School

Sue Bailey is not your average assistant head. Her colleagues are in awe of her, and it’s not just…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Ian Widdows, founder, National Association of Secondary Moderns

For a man who almost named his organisation the Society for the Prevention of Attacks on Secondary Moderns just…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Jonathan Simons, director of policy and advocacy, Varkey Foundation

Jonathan Simons has been the pantomime villain of education circles for the past five years. As director of education…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Jason Wing, executive principal, Neale-Wade academy

Jason Wing taught himself to become a national standard long-jumper when he was 12. He went on to represent…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Andy Ratcliffe, chief executive, Impetus-PEF

Facebook may get stick for perpetuating “fake news”, but the social network also helps to keep the education innovator…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Kiran Gill, founder, the Difference

A year ago Kiran Gill was writing angry columns for Schools Week that kicked against the “no excuses” culture…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney


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Geoff Barton, general secretary-designate, Association of School and College Leaders

Geoff Barton strides around his school with the pride of a parent whose child has won a prize for…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Amanda Spielman, chief inspector, Ofsted

Two months into the job and Amanda Spielman, Ofsted’s new chief inspector, has shot out of the traps as…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Profile: John Roberts, chief executive, Edapt

John Roberts’s Instagram feed is enough to make the average person sick. Not only does the 32-year-old spend what…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Mike Kane, MP, Shadow schools minister

It’s Holocaust Memorial Day and parliament’s Central Lobby is bustling with school groups and easily recognised faces. Mike Kane,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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John Murphy, CEO, Oasis Community Learning

John Murphy, weight 16½ stone, chief of a multi-academy trust founded by a Baptist minister, can karate kick a…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Alison Peacock, CEO, Chartered College of Teaching

According to documents squirrelled away on the Charities Commission website, the new (and not uncontroversial) Chartered College of Teaching…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney

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