This document appears to be a programme for the Festival of Education event held at Wellington College in June 2012. It includes: - Forewords from the Master of Wellington College Anthony Seldon, the Editor of The Sunday Times John Witherow, and the Head of Education at Google William Florance welcoming attendees. - The timetable listing over 50 speakers across 3 days covering a wide range of topics related to education, including technology in schools, social mobility, free schools, the national curriculum, and the future of various types of schools. - Information about sponsors, certificates of attendance, and directions to various exhibition and discussion spaces within the venue.

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FESTIVAL
PROGRAMME
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WELLINGTONCOLLEGE
June23-24,2012

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4-6 Forewords
8-11 TimeTable
13 Refreshments
14 - 49 Speaker Profiles
50 Acknowledgements
Contents
Personalised certificates of attendance at this year’s festival are available from the Festival desk in the V & A cafe.
You are very welcome to pick one up from there before you leave.
CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
This printed edition of the programme is subject to change.
Please consult the website for the most up-to-date speaker and programme information.
www.festivalofeducation.org.uk

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FOREWORDS
Anthony Seldon
Welcome to the third Sunday Times Wellington College Festival of Education.
The original aim of the Festival was to bring together many of the most
interesting thinkers in education to debate and discuss the vital issues affecting
all of us who work in schools, colleges and universities.
That first event convinced me and the editor of the Sunday Times, John
Witherow, that there was clearly a need for an event which was characterised
not by the usual finger-pointing and handwringing that too often are seen
when educationalists gather: we wanted something more celebratory,
something which was both serious and fun. In the second Education Festival
it was Bob Geldof, always skilled with words, who coined the phrase which
resonated with all those who heard it: it is a ‘Glastonbury for intellectuals’.
Perfect.
The idea of the Festival is simple. And whenever I talk to friends and
colleagues in China, or India, or the USA - anywhere indeed other than the
UK - I am encouraged by how quickly they ‘get it’: it is inclusive but wide in
scope, it seeks to tap into the zeitgeist but also explore ideas which only the
earliest of early-adopters would bring into the classroom. But in the UK
responses are different: sadly, our educational system is riven with conflicts
and vested interests: free schools, academies, comprehensives, grammar
schools, independent fee-paying schools, single sex schools, faith schools…
schooling in this country is hugely complex, but instead of seeing that as a rich
ecosystem of ideas too many seek to adopt a more Darwinian approach: that
for their particular sector to flourish others must die.
The children who are taught in these schools probably do not see it like this.
The whole focus of learning now is on collaboration and interconnection:
the social distance between one school and another continues to dissolve,
as it does between countries. Our children might be working on a joint
project with other students in Tianjin or Sao Paolo, and although adults might
question whether such work is ticking assessment objective A or C, the
children just get on with it and focus on what really matters: the learning.
The medium is not the message: we have invested more than many schools
on new technology, and we’re delighted that in this year’s Festival one of our
main supporters is Google: what other company has done more to widen
access to knowledge, and provide so many wonderful tools to schools for
free? But they would probably also say, like we do, that attention should be
spent on what is being learned, not the technology that allows this to happen.
And that is true of this Festival. Please listen to as many different speakers
as you can: I hope History teachers learn something new about genetics,
and that a lecturer in Mathematics understands a little more about cultural
identity. Because, ultimately, the success of this third Festival can, like the best
lesson, be measured not by what our brilliant speakers say, nor the resources
our partners and exhibitors bring with them (impressive though they are).
No, the Festival will be a success if, when you leave for home, you feel you
have learned something genuinely new and if, in the language of Ofsted, you
give us a tick and mark us down as ‘Outstanding’.
Anthony Seldon
Master, Wellington College

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John Witherow
The Sunday Times leads the debate on education. It breaks important news
stories, scrutinises the latest trends and seeks out those who challenge the
status quo with ideas that promise change and improvement. Its continued
sponsorship of the Festival of Education is part of that commitment to
explore exciting new directions.
The Festival is our opportunity to free the education debate from the
staffroom and engage with fresh thinking, wherever it comes from. That is
why business people, IT gurus, philosophers, entertainers and writers appear
alongside powerful figures in our educational establishment.
They – and you – are all here because the Festival of Education, although only
in its third year, has already established itself as a key event in the education
calendar. This is where you will learn from the sector’s key figures – and a
fair few of its mavericks - about new directions in teaching and learning, from
free schools to the reshaping of the national curriculum. Two years ago,
Michael Gove, then newly installed as Secretary of State for Education, chose
this festival as the platform from which to announce his A-level reforms,
which are now coming into effect. He will be here again this year to answer
your questions about anything from nursery schools to how we are going to
ensure our education system is better than that of our global competitors.
This year our event is taking place just months before the first students enter
our universities being charged fees of £9,000 a year. Our speakers will be
tackling every aspect of that change.
But please remember, it’s a festival, not a conference, so do find time to enjoy
the art, music and drama – you’ll be impressed at the talent on display, and
cheered by what this country’s young people can achieve.
Above all, make the most of this unique opportunity to contribute to the
debate on the most important issue in our society: how to improve the
educational standards and opportunities for every child in this country.
John Witherow
Editor, The Sunday Times

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William Florance
Google believes that all students should have the opportunity to become
active creators of tomorrow’s technology. Through our diverse set of
education efforts, we invest in the next generation of computer scientists and
engineers, providing opportunities for all students to engage more directly in
technology.
Google’s mission is to organise the world’s information and make it universally
accessible and useful. With regard to education, our goal is to leverage
Google’s strengths and infrastructure to increase access to high-quality, open
educational content and technology, more specifically, in science, engineering,
technology and math.
We support access to computing curriculum and educational technology for
all students, levelling the playing field so that students and educators alike have
the opportunity to shape the technologies of their future. The creators of
tomorrow’s innovations are everywhere, ready to be engaged and inspired.
To do this, we focus our education efforts in four strategic areas:
1. Increase access to and quality of computing curriculum
2. Implement new education technologies and tools that scale
3. Influence positive changes in education through advocacy and
community engagement
4. Encourage use of Google’s tools, technologies and infrastructure to
support teaching and learning
For our exhibition at the Festival of Education at Wellington College, we will
be focusing on the last of these points, inviting a group of Year 9 students to
demonstrate how they have been using Google products to enhance their
study of an English literature text. Pop along to MFL3 in the Interactive Zone
to say hello, and please also join us for an informal drink from 5pm, Saturday
on South Front.
William Florance
Head of Education, Google EMEA

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Drop by and say
hello in MFL3

8. 8
FESTIVAL OF EDUCATION
Sir John Cass Marquee Chapel Great School Theatre Old Hall
Talks Big Ideas Provocations Creative thinking
Learning in the 21st
century
Opening: 9am Opening: Michael Gove, with Peter Barron (Google), Mona Mourshed (McKinsey), Rod Bristow (Pearson) Chair: Anthony Seldon
10.15- 10.50
Fighting the establishment:
overcoming dyslexia
Jackie Stewart
The use of
storytelling
- traditional
tales and the
genuinely
spoken word in
education
Ben Haggarty
The crisis in the
status of teaching
Mary Bousted
The Sunday Times’s Rod Liddle in
conversation with Tony Sewell
Social mobility - the greatest
challenge of our time
Peter Lampl
10.55 – 11.35
Free schools - can they survive a
change of government?
Toby Young
Gangland culture
and the lost generation
Harriet Sergeant
The future of ICT in schools
Peter Barron, Elizabeth Varley, Terry
Sweeney, Eben Upton
Chair: Bill Thompson
Private education: the future
of the developing world
James Tooley
11. 35 – 12.15
64 things you need to know
now for then
Ben Hammersley
It’s all about
not knowing
(and other
thoughts
on lifelong
learning)
Loyd Grossman
Raising ambition for
all: schools and the
long-term health of the
economy. A CBI event.
Geoff Barton, Asha
Khemka, Russell
Hobby, Katja Hall, Nick
Chambers
Chair: Mona Mourshed
Stop teaching calculating, start
teaching maths
Conrad Wolfram
Improving behaviour
in our schools
Charlie Taylor,
interviewed by Tom Bennett
12:20 – 13.00
Losing our identity
David Starkey
System upgrade?
Releasing the vision for
UK education
Richard Noss
We musn't let the beancounters
win!
Mick Waters
The future for academies
Dan Moynihan, Lucy Heller,
Greg Martin, David Carter,
Chair: Ian Fordham
13.05 – 13.50
What is Britishness? A debate with
David Starkey, Musa Okwonga, Vivian
Bickford-Smith, Laurie Penny
Chair: David Goodhart
Nature, nurture
or neither? The
view from
the genes.
Steve Jones
Leadership for a self-
improving system
Steve Munby
What do we want in a
national curriculum?
Liz Sidwell, Tim Oates, Brian
Lightman, Andy Atkinson,
Chair: Peter Wilby
Just don’t call it literacy
Geoff Barton
13.55 – 14.40
Education - all the vowels but not in
the right order!
Tim Smit
The talent myth
and mindset
Matthew Syed
Education and autistic
children - what insights
from science?
Uta Frith
A performance of
poetry and music
Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson
What is the
point of education?
Douglas Murray,
John Bangs
Chair: The Sunday Times’s
Jenni Russell
14.45- 15.30
Yes we can - US chiefs for change
Chris Cerf, Paul Pastorek,
Hannah Skandera
Chair: Ian Fordham
Language and
the internet
David Crystal
Technology enabling
education and making
learning magical
William Florance
Further thoughts on the
right kind of History
David Cannadine
15.35 – 16.20
Trusting the ensemble
Charles Hazlewood
Should
Shakespeare be
compulsory at
every stage?
Stanley Wells
The ongoing need for
reform
Andrew Adonis
Dumbing down or widening access?
Amanda Spielman, Mark Dawe,
Geoff Parks, Mick Waters,
Chair: The Sunday Times’s
Minette Marrin
E-learning in primary
schools
David Mitchell, Christian
Hilton, Michael Shepherd,
Chair: Julia Skinner
16.25-17.05
Raising standards,
informing inspection
Michael Wilshaw In conversation with
Matthew Taylor
Slow education:
making time for deeper learning
James Stanforth, Joe Harrison,
Ian Morris
Chair: Mike Grenier
What does a 21st century
education look like? Rachel
Wolf, Claire Fox, Chris
Husbands, Musa Okwonga
Chair: Adrian Monck
SATURDAY
Schools Special Needs Technology Higher and Further Education General

9. 9
Driver Lecture
Room
Old Gym Library
Spiritual
Room
Mandarin centre
Concert
Hall
MFL Suite
New frontiers Think Tank
Further Education & Lifelong
Learning
The Interactive zone
Learning in the
21st century
Kate Russell, Peter
Barron, Liam Maxwell,
Elizabeth Varley
Chair: Maggie Philbin
Multiculturalism:
did the dream
become a
nightmare?
Richard Hoskins
An education system
for the 21st century
Greg Martin
Lessons from global
education systems
James Tooley, Judith
Guy, Sonia Blandford,
Geoff Barton
Chair: Tony McAleavy
Creating new entrepreneurs
Derek Browne, Jon Harper
Chair: Fintan Donohue
The Sage
Gateshead
EdFest
project
Tomorrow’s
technology today
- available and
accessible in a series of
interactive and hands-
on sessions throughout
the conference. This
is the place to learn
about new technology
in the classroom.
TECH HEADS
MFL 1 & 2
“Start Up”: 20 cutting
edge entrepreneurs
pitch new ideas in
elearning technology.
GOOGLE: MFL3
Making education come
alive: see how to work
with Google tools in
the classroom. Year 9
students will be on-
hand to talk about their
Google literacy projects.
ACER: MFL6
Demonstrations of
mobile technology in
e-learning
LEGO
EDUCATION: MFL7
Introducing new
products to promote
interactive learning at
all ages both online and
in hand.
O2 LEARN: MFL8
O2 Learn will be inviting
you to share your best
lesson - winners will
receive a new iPad.
The interactive zone
is a modern suite of
classrooms kitted
out especially for the
Festival. This is the place
to come to learn more
about technology.
The future is not what
it used to be
Abdul Chohan
Schools and
cultural identity
Simon Burgess,
Richard Hoskins,
Musa Okwonga
Chair: David
Goodhart
Roundtable rumble:
are the kids alright?
Finding happiness in
an age of fear
Heather Piper, Phillip
Woods, Carl Emery,
Debbie Watson,
Helene Guldberg,
Kathryn Ecclestone,
Tina Pearce
Chair: Claire Fox
Effective mobile
learning
Nick Dennis
Workshop
FE and industry: creating
credible partnerships
Pauline Tambling and Fintan
Donohue
New frontiers
in learning
Kate Russell, Tom
Barrett, Tom Lawton,
Ed Lawless
Chair: Ann Mroz
Holocaust and
human behaviour
- why do some
people become
perpetrators?
Michael McIntyre
A small, good thing:
Raspberry Pi and a
revolution in new
technology
Eben Upton
The future of universities
Mary Curnock Cook, Eric
Thomas, John Bangs
Chair: The Sunday Times’s
Minette Marrin
Digital is dialogue
Ann Mroz, Chantal
Mathias, Harper Ray
RSC and Warwick
University
- Teaching
Shakespeare
Jonothan Neelands
and
Jacqui O’Hanlon
Workshop
How to thrive in the
digital age
Tom Chatfield
Lego and learning
Workshop
FE, university or neither?
Nick Linford, Toni Pearce, Lynne
Sedgmore, Rod Smith Chair:
Adrian Monck
Measuring learning:
from old exams to
new technologies
David Reynolds,
Paul Kelley
What do we mean
by wellbeing?
Paul Oginsky,
Kathryn Ecclestone
Chair: Ian Morris
O2 Learn: creating
a community of
learners
Workshop
Engagement, employability and
enterprise - inspiring our youth
Asha Khemka
The connected
student: teaching
in the age of the
smartphone
Bill Thompson
BBC and RSC
- Shakespeare
unlocked
Jacqui O’Hanlon,
Rebecca Simor,
Saul Nassé
Workshop
The future
of schools
Matthew Taylor
Using new
technology to inspire
and improve writing
David Mitchell
You're hired! Creating a skilled
workforce for the 21st century
Eugene Incerti, Pauline Odulinski,
Roberta Blackman-Jones
Chair: Ruth Farwell
A food education
revolution for primary
schools
Jamie’s Kitchen
Garden Project
Michelle Smith
Next gen skills:
computer science is
essential knowledge
in the
21st century
Ian Livingstone
How authentic is work
experience in educational
settings? Wes Streeting, Chris
Husbands, Mark Jeynes,
David Corke
Chair: Ralph Tabberer
Safeguarding and rights
in schools
Maggie Atkinson
Dr Who:
script to screen
Saul Nassé and
Katy Jones
The book is dead!
Long live the Kindle!
Chris Meade,
John Mitchinson,
Tom Chatfield
Chair: Nic Amy
30 minutes:
anti-bullying
campaigns: doing
more harm
than good?
Helene Guldberg
Closing remarks
Rod Bristow
Academies and their
communities
Liz Sidwell
Enterprise and life
skills innovation
within the classroom
Melody Hossani
Behaviour in schools:
how teachers and
schools can make
learning happen
Tom Bennett
Mandarin for beginners
Lesson
Subject to change - please consult the online programme for the most up-to-date version - www.festivalofeducation.org.uk

10. 10
FESTIVAL OF EDUCATIONSir John Cass
Marquee
Chapel
Great
School
Theatre Library
Spiritual
Room
Big Ideas Provocations Creative thinking 21st century learning
9.30 – 10.10
What has the past
to do with us: will
it be Christianity or
secularism that will help
us today?
Michael Nazir-Ali
Improving
learning: from
traditional
teaching
to applied
neuroscience
David Reynolds
and Paul Kelley
Solid education: what’s
missing in schools?
Guy Claxton
10.15- 10.50
Preserving school sport
Annabel Croft
Teamwork with
choirs
Ralph Allwood
Workshop
City Year London:
how the right
role models can
transform schools
Sophie Livingtsone
and Lee Bailey
The beauty of useful
mathematics
Matt Parker
Expansive education: how
teachers are creating 21st
century classrooms
Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas
Phonics workshop
Joanna Jeffery
Workshop
10.55 – 11.35
When China rules
the world
Martin Jacques
A broadside
The Sunday
Times’s AA Gill
In the zone
Geoff Dyer in conversation
with Leo Robson
Getting the most out of
Facebook 1:
being socially smart
Simon Milner and Rosa Birch
11. 40– 12.15
Why the English spend
more on independent
schools than any
other nation on
earth (and with what
consequences?)
Danny Dorling
Gospel brunch
G: Force Gospel
Choir
Challenging
homophobia in
schools
Peter Tatchell
My family and other aliens:
living with ‘Asparagus’
syndrome
Kathy Lette
Moving towards a 'no fail'
organisation, the Educating
Essex journey
Vic Goddard and
Stephen Drew
Growing young
leaders
Katy Granville-
Chapman
12.20 – 13.10
David Willetts, Minister
for Universities and
Science
Teach media
studies not Latin
David Aaronovitch
The hidden side
of science
Michael Brooks
The ancient guide to
modern life
Natalie Haynes
3D technology and why it
is important to
every school
Martin Stevens
13.15 - 14.00
The power of an
authentic teacher
student relationship
John Amaechi
Faith Schools
debate
Benjamin Perl,
Andrew Copson,
Michael Nazir-Ali,
Julian Baggini
Chair: David
Aaronovitch
UK education in a
global context
Andreas Schleicher
Introduced by
David Skelton
The future of universities
David Bell, David Skelton,
Julia King & Terence Kealey
Chair: The Sunday Times’s
Dominic Lawson
Lego Education
Workshop
The Eden Project
Sam Kendall, Brian
Howell, Jon Cook
Workshop
14.05 – 14.50
How can schools learn
about good science
from bad science?
Ben Goldacre
A nation educated
into debt but
never about debt
Martin Lewis
Defending the
comprehensive ideal
Owen Jones
Getting the most out of
Facebook 2: social learning
Simon Milner and Rosa Birch
A comprehensive
sixth form college:
why every area
should have one
Eddie Playfair
14.55– 15.40
The RI debate: what is a
science education for?
Julia Buckingham,
Mark Henderson, Ben
Goldacre, Becky Parker
Chair: Bryan Appleyard
From chimps
to champs:
curiosities of
counting
Alex Bellos
02 Learn
Gav Thompson
What sort of schools
do we need?
David Perks, Bernard
Trafford, Helen Wright,
Eddie Playfair
Chair: Dale Bassett
15.45– 16.30
Education and the art of
thinking
AC Grayling
The power of engagement
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Why become a teacher?
Phil Bartlett, Chris Edwards
Chair: Crispin Bonham-
Carter
16.35 - 17.35
Closing: An iF Poems Poetry Reading Event Roger McGough, Toby Stephens, Imogen Stubbs and Dominic West give a poetry reading for all ages.
Introduced by Allie Esiri and Rachel Kelly, creators of the iF Poems app.
SUNDAY
Schools Special Needs Technology Higher and Further Education General

11. 11
Driver Lecture
Room
Old Hall Old Gym Mandarin Centre
Concert
Hall
MFL Suite
Beyond the school gates The Interactive Zone
Children’s University as a
learning satnav
John MacBeath, Ger Graus
Widening access
Will Orr-Ewing, Owen
Jones, Jake Hayman,
Alex Kelly
Chair: The Sunday Times’s
Jenni Russell
Increasing funding,
resources and
volunteer numbers
in schools
Nick Ryan
Language and brain research
John Bald
Tomorrow’s technology today
- available and accessible in
a series of interactive and
hands-on sessions throughout
the conference. This is the
place to learn about new
technology in the classroom.
TECH HEADS MFL 1 & 2
“Start Up”: 20 cutting edge
entrepreneurs pitch new ideas
in elearning technology.
GOOGLE: MFL3
Making education come alive:
see how to work with Google
tools in the classroom. Year
9 students will be on-hand to
talk about their Google literacy
projects.
ACER: MFL6
Demonstrations of mobile
technology in e-learning
LEGO EDUCATION: MFL7
Introducing new products to
promote interactive learning
at all ages both online and in
hand.
O2 LEARN: MFL8
O2 Learn will be inviting you
to share your best lesson -
winners will receive a new iPad.
The interactive zone is a
modern suite of classrooms
kitted out especially for the
Festival. This is the place to
come to learn more about
technology.
Google will be exhibiting a
project that Year 9 students
worked on using free Google
tools. O2 Learn will be inviting
you to share your best lesson
and the best one will get a new
iPad. We have a tech start up
with Tech Heads where 19
cutting-edge entrepeneurs new
ideas are pitched to see if they
will sell. Lego will introduce
you to their latest learning
tools for all ages, and Acer will
show you the latest in mobile
learning and cutting-edge
technolology.
This and much more, all in one
place, and all in a setting which
you can use in your school.
Free range learning and the
factory model
James Bradburne, Hilary
Robinson, Tim Brighouse,
George Trow, Ger Graus, John
MacBeath
Child development: 'Too
much, too soon' - major
cultural concern or
irresponsible
scare-mongering?
Penelope Leach
and Richard House
Education on even
terms
John d’Abbro
Debating Matters
Debate1: We should
introduce a system of
presumed consent for organ
donation (10.15-11.15)
Wellington College (for) v
The Piggott School (against)
Debate 2: Allowing the use
of enhancement drugs will
not undermine the spirit of
sport (11.15 - 12.15) Queen
Elizabeth Grammar School
(for) v St Paul's Girls School
(against)
The heart of lightness -
museums and learning
James Bradburne
Teach First 2002-2022:
tackling educational
disadvantage past, present
and future
Brett Wigdorz, Sara Caplan,
James Townsend
21st century families
and how to engage
parents to create
powerful learners
Bill Lucas
Creative learning
environments
Jacob Kragh
How state secondary
schools and academies can
live with the tyranny of the
overmighty state
Tim Brighouse
Achievement for all:
raising aspirations and
achievements
Sonia Blandford
Finding your
voice – a
women-only
workshop
Yvonne Gilan
Workshop
Putting children first
Kieran McDermott
Interdisciplinarity in school
and university curricula:
can we get some joined-up
thinking?
Carl Gombrich
Practice doesn't make
perfect - what is
music really about?
Cordelia Williams
Mandarin for beginners
lesson
Finding your
voice -
women only
Yvonne Gilan
Workshop
Astrobiology - inspiring
science students with the
hunt for life beyond earth
Lewis Dartnell
Academies: the future of
schools?
James O'Shaugnessy, Laurie
Penny, Andy Schofield
Chair: Dale Bassett
When China rules
the world
Martin Jacques
Reducing school exclusion
Brian de Lord
Holocaust and human
behaviour - why do
some people become
perpetrators?
Michael McIntyre
Debating Matters
Final debate: Social media is
rejuvenating political protest
(14.05 To 15.20): Winner of
debate 1 (for) v winner of
debate 2 (against)
Eudaimonics
Tracey Skyrme
Workshop
Giving students a voice
Chair: Jon Teckman
Firefly: solutions for every
school
Joseph Matthewson
Student voice
Jon Teckman
Workshop
Mandarin for beginners
lesson
Subject to change - please consult the online programme for the most up-to-date version - www.festivalofeducation.org.uk

12. 12
thoughts
Getting our young people into the workplace
the world’s greatest challenge: some
thoughts to consider this weekend
It is hard to find a greater challenge affecting
society and the global economy than the high
levels of youth unemployment.
Wherever you look around the world youth
unemployment is at crisis levels and getting
worse. Globally almost 13% of youth, 78 million
young people aged 15 to 24, are looking for a
job, but can’t find one. In the Arab world, where
two thirds of the population is under 29, youth
unemployment is the highest of all regions in
the world – 25%. Individual countries, such as
Spain, South Africa, and Greece, all have youth
unemployment approaching 50%.
And here in the UK, one in seven young people
aged 16 to 24 are not in employment, education
or training – almost one million people. Although
the causes of last summer’s riots are complex
and still being debated, the sense of alienation
among some of the young people involved was
inescapable.
At the same time employers are struggling to find
qualified employees. In a global survey conducted
by Manpower (2011), an average of 34% of
employers reported difficulties filling positions due
to the lack of available talent. For example, in the
US, over 3 million jobs today go vacant. Too many
young people are leaving education without the
right skills, both hard and soft.
Globalisation and technological change are
having a profound impact on the composition of
workforces. Jobs are becoming less routine, more
interactive and more analytical. Across Europe,
between 2010 and 2020, 48% of job openings will
require secondary or vocational qualifications, and
44% will require tertiary qualifications.
What can we do about this? Over the past
18 months McKinsey & Company has been
researching and supporting “education for
employment” initiatives in different parts of the
world.
While the root causes and solutions vary from
country to country, there are some common
findings. Firstly, there needs to be much more
intense collaboration between young people,
educators, government and business about the
setting of standards and the availability of work
experience. Secondly, young people need to be
able to access a broader choice of programmes,
not just through school and university education,
but also vocational education, work readiness
programmes and apprenticeships. Young people
also need the right information to make more
informed choices about their study programmes
– through greater transparency about job demand
by profession, wage levels, and the institutions that
deliver high quality graduates in each profession.
Thirdly, business increasingly understands the need
to get behind these programmes for reasons of
growth and productivity, not just out of corporate
social responsibility. They can support educators in
the following areas: shaping the curriculum, creating
simulation modules in courses, providing additional
teaching capacity, offering internships, and providing
career counselling and guidance.
Finally, as our global education research shows,
student outcome results are cumulative. Nothing
drives educational performance more than the
quality of teaching and school leadership, from
the early years onwards. It is during early years
learning and primary education that the seeds of
employability are sown. Business should do what it
can to support school leaders and teachers at this
level too.
This Festival of Education is the perfect forum
to discuss this urgent challenge - how to enable
our young people to make the most of all the
opportunities in today’s global economy.
Dr Mona Mourshed.
Director and Global Education Leader, McKinsey &
Company

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Selection of Teas and Coffee
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Freshly Made Smoothies
Afternoon Offer
A Selection of Gateaux, Tray bakes and
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Full Selection of Sandwiches, Wraps
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14. 14
A
DAVID AARONOVITCH
David Aaronovitch has worked in
television and radio, as researcher,
producer, editor, executive and presenter.
He has written for The Independent,
Independent on Sunday, The Observer,
The Guardian and, since 2005, for
The Times. He also contributes to the
Jewish Chronicle. He is the author of
two books, the most recent of which is
Voodoo Histories, an account of modern
conspiracy theories. Although he is deeply
ambivalent about awards he nonetheless
insists on telling people that he has won a
number, including Twitter commentator
of the Year in 2011.
MAGGIE
ADERIN-POCOCK
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a space
scientist; she studied at Imperial College
where she obtained a degree in Physics
and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering.
Since then she has spent her career
making novel, bespoke instrumentation.
Maggie makes regular appearances
on television and radio as a space and
education expert and presenting science
to a general audience. To further share
her love of science, Maggie has also set up
her own company: Science Innovation Ltd.
ANDREW ADONIS
Lord Adonis took his seat in the House
of Lords in May 2005, initially serving as
the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of
State for Schools and Learners in the
Department for Education and Skills,
calling for the creation of additional
academies, specialist schools and trust
schools. After three years Lord Adonis
moved to the Department for Transport
as a Minister of State and was promoted
Secretary of State for Transport in June
2009. He served in that role until the
change in Government in May 2010.
Between July 2010 and January 2012,
Lord Adonis served as Director of the
Institute for Government, an independent
charity with cross-party and Whitehall
governance, working to improve
government effectiveness. He is Chair
of Progress, the Labour modernisers’
organisation. He is recognised as Labour’s
most innovative public service reformer.
RALPH ALLWOOD
Ralph has recently left Eton College,
where he had been Precentor and
Director of Music for 26 years, in order
to pursue his freelance activities. These
include conducting the orchestra of St
Paul’s Girls’ School and the founding of
Inner Voices, a choir for forty young
people from ten Inner London state
schools. In 2002 he was made Honorary
Fellow of the Royal School of Church
Music, in 2003 an Honorary Associate of
the Royal Academy of Music and an MBE
in the 2012 New Years’ Honours.
JOHN AMAECHI
John Amaechi OBE is an organisational
consultant and a high-performance
executive coach. He is also a New York
Times best-selling author and a former
NBA basketball star. In the UK, John has
his own sports and community centre
with more than 2,500 young people per
week going through its doors. Since his
retirement from sport, John works with
institutions in the US and Europe, from
the business, educational, sporting and
philanthropic fields, to help them assess,
manage, maximise and retain their human
capital.
BRYAN APPLEYARD
Bryan Appleyard was educated at Bolton
School and King’s College, Cambridge. He
was Financial News Editor and Deputy
Arts Editor at The Times from 1976 to
1984. He is a three-time Feature Writer
of the Year award winner and has been
commended four times in the British
Press Awards. Currently he is a special
feature writer, commentator, reviewer
and columnist for The Sunday Times. He
also writes for the New Statesman, Vanity
Fair, Intelligent Life and Prospect. His
latest book is The Brain is Wider than the
Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don’t Work in
a Complex World.
ANDY ATKINSON
Andy Atkinson is presently the Head of
Diploma Programme Development at
the International Baccalaureate, based in
The Netherlands. Andy was educated at
Exeter University and Goldsmith’s College,
London before embarking on a 20 year
career in teaching. He has educated
young people in the UK, Argentina, Italy
and Spain and is a passionate supporter
of all three IB programmes. In August,
Andy is to take up a new post for the IB,
Director of Global School Services, based
in the IB Americas office in Bethesda,
Maryland, where he will lead in the areas
of IB World School authorisation and
evaluation services.
MAGGIE ATKINSON
Dr Maggie Atkinson is the Children’s
Commissioner for England. The post of
Children’s Commissioner for England was
established by the Children Act 2004. The
United Nations Convention on the Rights
of the Child (UNCRC) underpins and
frames all of their work. The Children’s
Commissioner has a duty to promote
the views and interests of all children in
England, in particular those whose voices
are least likely to be heard, to the people
who make decisions about their lives.
B
JULIAN BAGGINI
Julian Baggini (www.julianbaggini.com) is
the author of several books, including
Welcome to Everytown: A Journey into
the English Mind (Granta), Complaint
(Profile) and, most recently, The Ego Trick
(Granta). He has written for numerous
newspapers and magazines, including The
Guardian, The Financial Times, Prospect
and the New Statesman, as well as for the
think tanks The Institute of Public Policy
Research and Demos. He is editor-in-chief
and co-founder of The Philosophers’
Magazine (www.philosophersmag.
com). He has also appeared as a cameo
character in two Alexander McCall-Smith
novels.
JOHN BALD
John Bald is an independent educational
consultant. He is technical adviser on
languages to The Learning Trust, Hackney,
and a member of the DfE ministerial
steering group on languages. John took
first class honours in French at UEA in
1972, and has forty years’ experience of
teaching, training, research and writing in
the fields of languages and literacy. He
was tutor in charge of Essex Education
Department’s Reading and Language
Centres for thirteen years, has led almost
100 Ofsted inspections, and was a
pioneer of training for teaching assistants.
In 1990, he organised a conference on
Language and Literacy in English and
French for the French Embassy, at which
some of the ideas in his conference
session were first presented.
JOHN BANGS
John Bangs started his career as a
teacher. He joined the National Union of
Teachers (NUT) in 1990 as the officer
responsible for special needs and for
the English National Curriculum and its
assessment. In 1993 he was appointed
Assistant Secretary (Education/Equal
Opportunities). His role in Education
International, focusing on OECD
education policy making and research,
linked with his work at the Faculty of
Education at Cambridge University
enables him to be at the leading edge of
international teacher policy development
and the latest developments on education
system comparators. John believes that
Reinventing Schools, Reforming Teaching,
the book he has co-authored, contains
profound lessons for government initiated
reform.
TOM BARRETT
Tom Barrett is a former Deputy Head
teacher; he is a Google Certified Teacher
and is a senior consultant with NoTosh.
PETER BARRON
Peter Barron has been Google’s Director
of External Relations for Europe, Middle
East and Africa since January 2011. He
joined Google in 2008 and was previously
Director of Communications and Public
Affairs for North and Central Europe.
Before joining Google he was editor of
BBC2’s Newsnight programme from
2004-2008 and worked in TV News
and Current Affairs for nearly twenty
years. He has also been deputy editor at
Channel 4 News and Tonight with Trevor
McDonald and devised and edited the
BBC Current Affairs drama-documentary
series If... In 2007 he was advisory chair
of the Edinburgh International TV Festival,
responsible for organising and producing
Britain’s largest TV Festival.
PHIL BARTLETT
Phil began his career with the accountancy
firm Ernst & Young before moving to two
other small accountancy firms in central
London. He first applied to Teach First
whilst at University in Bath and applied
again after 4 years in professional services.
He now teaches Business Studies and
Economics at Oasis Academy Hadley in
Enfield.
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GEOFF BARTON
Geoff Barton has taught English since
1985, and has been Headteacher of
King Edward VI School for twelve
years. He is the author and editor of
more than fifty books on grammar and
literature, is a columnist for the Times
Educational Supplement and is also a
member of, and speaker for, numerous
groups for education, including the DfE’s
English Board and the National Literacy
Association. Geoff is a Founding Fellow
of the English Association and a leading
member of the National Education Trust.
DALE BASSETT
Dale Bassett is Research Director at
Reform, having been with the think tank
since 2008. He leads on public service
reform and specialises in education policy,
researching and advocating ideas on
increasing competition and choice and
improving value for money across the
public sector. He has co-authored reports
on topics including the curriculum and
qualifications, academies and improving
teacher quality, and has edited a book
of essays on the future of the creative
industries. Prior to joining Reform, Dale
was a City headhunter and co-founded a
start-up e-commerce company.
DAVID BELL
Sir David Bell became Vice-Chancellor
of Reading University on 1 January 2012.
Sir David studied history and philosophy
at Glasgow University and obtained
his PGCE from Jordanhill College of
education. He held teaching posts at
primary schools in Glasgow, moving on
to become a Deputy Head, and then a
Headteacher in Essex. Between 1990
and 1995, he was Assistant Director of
Education at Newcastle City Council.
Sir David was appointed HM Chief
Inspector of Schools in England (HMCI)
by the Privy Council in 2002. In 2006
he became Permanent Secretary at the
Department of Education and Skills
which, later, became the Department for
Children, Schools and Families and then
the Department for Education. As the
most senior education civil servant in the
country, Sir David served four Secretaries
of State and three Prime Ministers. Sir
David became a Knight Commander of
the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2011
Birthday Honours.
ALEX BELLOS
Alex Bellos is a writer and broadcaster.
He is the author of the bestselling
popular Maths book Alex’s Adventures in
Numberland, which was shortlisted for
the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-
Fiction, the Royal Society Book Prize and
a Galaxy National Book Award. He was
formerly The Guardian correspondent
in South America and has a degree in
Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford
University. He is also the author of the
critically-acclaimed Futebol: The Brazilian
Way of Life and ghostwrote Pelé’s
autobiography.
TOM BENNETT
A full time teacher, Tom Bennett is best
known for his online blog The Behaviour
Guru, which was eventually turned into
a best-selling book, The Behaviour Guru:
Behaviour Management Solutions for
Teachers. He trained as a teacher of both
Religious Studies and Philosophy, which
has come to form the basis of his writing
after he became an online ‘Agony Uncle’
for The Times Educational Supplement.
He was made School Teacher Fellow
of Corpus Christi, the University of
Cambridge. In addition, he has also made
numerous appearances on BBC Breakfast
since 2010, discussing educational issues.
He regularly speaks to teacher training
colleges and trains teachers from the UK
and abroad.
VIVIAN
BICKFORD-SMITH
Vivian Bickford-Smith received his
PhD from Cambridge University and
specialises in modern history with a
South African regional focus. His research
has been mainly in three sometimes
overlapping areas: ethnicity and
nationalism, urban history, and film and
history. Publications include, Ethnic Pride
and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape
Town (Cambridge 2003), Cape Town
in the Twentieth Century (Cape Town,
1999), Black and White in Colour: African
History on Screen (Oxford, Cape Town
and Athens OH, 2007), The Betrayal of
Creole Elites in the Oxford Companion
to the History of the British Empire
(Oxford, 2004), and African Nationalist
or British Loyalist? The Complicated Case
of Tiyo Soga, History Workshop Journal,
71, 2011. He is currently writing a book
on Cities and Identities in Twentieth
Century South Africa (CUP, forthcoming).
Vivian has contributed frequently to
public discussions of race and nationalism
in variety of electronic and print media.
ROSA BIRCH
Rosa Birch is an Associate Manager on
Facebook’s UK & Ireland Public Policy
team. Rosa joined the company in June
2010 and has worked on a range of policy
issues including safety, privacy and working
with public sector organisations helping
them to maximise their use of Facebook.
Prior to joining Facebook, Rosa managed
a UK Member of Parliament’s office
focusing on community engagement.
SONIA BLANDFORD
Founder and CEO of the charity
Achievement for All 3As, Professor Sonia
Blandford has dedicated her career to
the enhancement of teaching, with a
focus on building community awareness
and increasing voluntary engagement for
vulnerable learners. She has worked as a
government advisor, and for over thirty
years has been associated with many
education charities.
ROBERTA
BLACKMAN-JONES
Roberta Blackman-Jones is MP for the
City of Durham and Shadow Minister for
Communities and Local Government.
CRISPIN
BONHAM-CARTER
Crispin Bonham-Carter spent 15 years
acting in theatre, TV and on film. In
the theatre he spent 6 months in The
West End in The Peter Hall Company
and played leading roles at the Sheffield
Crucible and Nottingham Playhouse. On
television he is best known for his roles in
Pride and Prejudice, Game On, Absolutely
Fabulous and Wuthering Heights. His
film work includes roles in Howards End,
Bridget Jones’s Diary and Casino Royale.
As a theatre director, he co-ran a new
writing venue in Battersea, assisted Nick
Hytner at The National and was awarded
the Jerwood Young Directors Award
in 2001 at the Young Vic. In 2005 he
re-trained as an English Teacher. He now
works at Alexandra Park School, a highly
successful comprehensive in Haringey.
MARY BOUSTED
Dr Mary Bousted is general secretary of
ATL. Mary represents the interests of her
members to the government, and to a
wide variety of other stakeholders. As the
education union, ATL leads the debate on
key educational issues with strong policy
positions on, for example, assessment and
curriculum changes; school accountability
and school structures. She sits on the
executive committee of the Trades
Union Congress (TUC). Mary is also an
accomplished public speaker and has
debated at the Oxford Union. Mary
previously worked in higher education at
York University, Edge Hill University and
at Kingston University where she was
Head of the School of Education. Prior
to this Mary was a Head of English, and
English teacher, in comprehensive schools
in North London.
JAMES BRADBURNE
Dr James Bradburne is an Anglo-Canadian
architect, designer and museologist.
He has designed world expo pavilions,
science parks and international art
exhibitions. He was educated in Canada
and in England, graduating in architecture
with the Architectural Association and
taking his doctorate in museology at
University of Amsterdam. Over the past
twenty years he has produced exhibitions
and organised research projects and
conferences for UNESCO, national
governments, private foundations and
museums in many parts of the world. He
is currently the director general of the
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, responsible
for turning Palazzo Strozzi in Florence into
a dynamic cultural centre.
JUSTINE BRIAN
Justine Brian is the Debating Matters
National Coordinator. She loves good
food and hates food snobbery, and
learned to cook at Westminster College.
Little did she know that her skill with a
chef’s knife would mean she’d find herself
running the world’s best schools’ debating
competition, although in spare time she
does think about, read about and eat
food, and occasionally fantasises about
giving up the rat race to sell high-class
cupcakes. She is an occasional writer on
food issues, and her greatest media claim
to fame was being on Radio 4’s Woman’s
Hour on the issue of “frugal food”, which
made her Mum extremely proud. She’s
just completed an undergraduate degree
in Classical Studies at Birkbeck College,
University of London.
TIM BRIGHOUSE
Born in Leicestershire (1940) and brought
up there and in East Anglia, Sir Tim
attended state schools and took a degree
in Modern History from Oxford, where
he trained to be a teacher. After spells
with Buckinghamshire and the Association
of County Councils he became Deputy
Ed Officer (ILEA) and Chief Education
Officer, first in Oxfordshire 1978-1989
and then Birmingham 1993-2002 with
a period in between when he was
Professor of Education at Keele University.
His last full-time post was Commissioner
and then - Chief Adviser for London
Schools 2002-2007. Tim has written
books on education, broadcasted, and
spoken at local, national and international
conferences. He has honorary degrees
from a number of British Universities and
is married with children and grandchildren
and supports Oxford United, reads and
plays golf badly.
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ROD BRISTOW
Rod Bristow is President of Pearson
UK, made up of Pearson’s education
businesses in the UK; Edexcel, the UK’s
leading awarding body, Heinemann,
Longman and Financial Times Prentice
Hall. He has worked in education and
publishing for thirty years in the UK
and Internationally. He was appointed
President of Pearson’s UK educational
publishing businesses in 2000. In 2010,
he was appointed President of Pearson
UK. He is President of the Publishers
Association, a Trustee for Education and
Employers Taskforce and a Fellow of the
Royal Society for Arts.
MICHAEL BROOKS
Michael Brooks is a non-fiction author,
journalist and broadcaster, and currently
works as a consultant for the New
Scientist, is a weekly columnist for the
New Statesman and a blogger for the
Huffington Post UK. His books include
the bestselling 13 Things That Don’t
Make Sense and Free Radicals: The Secret
Anarchy of Science. In the past he has
written for The Guardian, The Times
Higher Education and The Independent,
among many other newspapers and
magazines. Michael has also lectured at
New York University and Cambridge
University.
DEREK BROWNE
Derek Browne is an award winning
social entrepreneur and international
speaker. An ex investment banker and
international athlete, he is the founder of
Entrepreneurs in Action, (EiA) a company
which offers strategic advice and delivery
on entrepreneurial education and training
across education and business. In 2006
he was awarded The Queen’s Award for
Enterprise Promotion and was a finalist
of the 2006 Daily Telegraph Business
Personality of the year awards. Derek
combined his day job with Barings with
his passion for athletics, and competed
internationally as a triple jumper in the UK
and Europe, winning medals at national
and international level.
JULIA BUCKINGHAM
Professor Julia Buckingham is the
Pro-Rector for Education & Academic
Affairs and Professor of Pharmacology
and at Imperial College London. She
is responsible for the University’s
educational strategy and the governance
and quality of its degree programmes. She
has published widely in her field, served
on a number of national and international
review panels and received several
prestigious awards including the 2009
AstraZeneca Women in Pharmacology
Award. She is a member of the Trustee
Board of the Royal Institution of Great
Britain, the Council of the Society of
Biology and the Board of Governors of
St Mary’s School, Calne. Former roles
include President of the Society for
Endocrinology, President of the British
Pharmacological Society, Editor-in-Chief of
the Journal of Neuroendocrinology and
Chairman of BioScientifica Ltd. Julia has
recently been appointed Vice-Chancellor
and Principal of Brunel University and will
take up the post in October.
SIMON BURGESS
Simon Burgess is a Professor of
Economics at the University of Bristol and
Director of CMPO (Centre for Market
and Public Organisation, http://www.
bris.ac.uk/cmpo/), an ESRC Research
Centre. He is also Director of CUBeC
(Centre for Understanding Behaviour
Change, http://www.bris.ac.uk/cubec/),
funded by the Department for Education.
Simon is a labour economist. His current
research interests are in the economics
of education, including market-based
education reforms (such as school
performance tables, school accountability,
choice and competition), the importance
of teachers, and admissions and access to
high-performing schools. He is currently
a member of the Scientific Steering
Committee for the 2012 Birth Cohort
Study. His webpage is efm.bris.ac.uk/ecsb
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ANNA CAIN
Anna Cain is Chief Executive of The
Boxing Academy, a unique and ground-
breaking charity based in Tottenham and
Hackney which works with the most
difficult-to-reach young people in danger
of permanent exclusion. It provides a
full-time educational placement offering
academic lessons alongside life skills,
anger management and sports sessions,
giving the students the chance to work
through their problems and focus on their
futures. The Boxing Academy has been
evaluated in a report commissioned by
the Laureus Foundation who calculated
the SROI (Social Return on Investment)
to be a massive 3:1, which means that for
every £1 spent on the Boxing Academy,
it returns £3 of value to the community.
90% of the Boxing Academy’s leavers go
on to further education, employment or
training.
DAVID CANNADINE
Professor Sir David Cannadine is Whitney
J. Oates Senior Research Scholar at
Princeton University and Honorary
Professor in the University of London.
He is the author and editor of numerous
books including The Decline and Fall
of the British Aristocracy (1990); G. M.
Trevelyan: A Life in History (1992); Class
in Britain (1998); Ornamentalism: how
the British saw their empire (2001); In
Churchill’s Shadow: Confronting the
Past in Modern Britain (2002), Mellon:
An American Life (2006) and Making
History Now and Then (2008). He is
also Chairman of the Trustees of the
National Portrait Gallery, a Trustee of the
Kennedy Memorial Trust and the British
Empire and Commonwealth Museum, a
Commissioner for English Heritage and
Chairman of its Blue Plaques Panel, a
member of the Advisory Committee of
the Royal Mint, and on the Editorial Board
of the History of Parliament.
SARA CAPLAN
Sara Caplan is a Partner in PwC’s
National Government Services team,
responsible for leading their work in
the Education and skills arena. She has
extensive experience in the education
sector and worked for 10 years in FE
sector both as Head of the Business
School and Director of Registry in an FE
College. Sara has led: Achievement for
All, a school improvement programme
designed to raise the attainment levels
of pupils with Special Educational Needs;
World Class Skills, which was designed
to transform the FE sector to become
more employer and employee focused
and involved working across the public
and private sector with both education
and training providers and employers;
and the development of new Higher
Level Apprenticeships for the Professional
Services sector which will be introduced
in September 2012. Sara is a member of
the National Skills Forum and has spoken
on skills issues extensively on a national
basis.
DAVID CARTER
David Carter is Executive Principal of
the Cabot Learning Federation, and
Principal at John Cabot City Technology
College in Bristol. David first trained as
a musician at the University of London
and began his teaching career in 1983 as
a music teacher. In 1997, David became
Headteacher of Cirencester Deer Park
School in Gloucestershire, where he
remained until 2003. During this time,
David completed an MBA in International
Educational Leadership at the University
of Hull. In 2003 he joined the DFE to
spearhead the National Remodelling
Team, supporting primary, special and
secondary schools to introduce the
workforce remodelling programme. In
2004, David was appointed to the post of
Principal at John Cabot City Technology
College in Bristol. He then became one
of the first National Leaders in Education.
In the summer of 2011, the Cabot
Learning Federation became one of the
first teaching schools in the country and
continues to focus its work on developing
the quality of teaching, learning and
leadership development.
CHRIS CERF
Chris Cerf is New Jersey’s Acting
Commissioner of Education. As Acting
Commissioner, he oversees 2,500
public schools, 1.4 million students, and
110,000 teachers in over 600 school
districts. He is committed to closing New
Jersey’s academic achievement gap while
substantially raising the achievement level
of all New Jersey students. Previously,
Commissioner Cerf served as the CEO
of Sangari Global Education, Deputy
Chancellor of the New York City
Department of Education, Associate
Counsel to President Clinton and as a
partner in two Washington DC law firms.
Prior to attending law school, he spent
four years as a high school history teacher
in Cincinnati, Ohio.
NICK CHAMBERS
Nick Chambers is the Director of
the charity Education and Employers
Taskforce. The charity was established
in 2009 and its aim is to ensure that
every school and college has an effective
partnership with employers which
provides its young people with the
inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills
and opportunities they need to help
them achieve their potential. The charity
undertakes research and runs Speakers
for Schools (www.speakers4schools.org)
- 1,000 high profile speakers talking about
the big issues of the day and Inspiring
the Future (www.inspiringthefuture.org)
which launches on the 2nd July and aims
to get 100,000 people to volunteer to
visit a state school once a year and spend
an hour talking to young people about
their careers, jobs and the education
route they took.
TOM CHATFIELD
Tom Chatfield is a British writer and
commentator. The author of four
books exploring digital culture – most
recently How to Thrive in the Digital
Age (Pan Macmillan) – his work has
appeared in over a dozen territories
and languages. Tom has worked as a
writer and consultant with companies
including Google and Mind Candy, and
spoken at forums including TED Global
and the World IT Congress. A fortnightly
columnist for the BBC, he also writes
fiction, plays jazz piano and tweets at @
TomChatfield.
ABDUL CHOHAN
Abdul Chohan has been a teacher of
Chemistry for 13 years with a passion for
using technology for learning. Currently
a Director at Essa Academy, he talks
about the impact of a 1:1 handheld device
programme. Essa Academy is the first
school in the UK to give out iPod touch
devices to all students and staff. The
Academy believes in allowing students to
access information and deepen learning
beyond the classroom. Staff and students
are able to have seamless communication
that allows learning conversations to
develop and feedback to be of a higher
quality as well as aiding the delivery of a
personalised curriculum.
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GUY CLAXTON
Guy Claxton is Professor of the Learning
Sciences at the University of Winchester,
as well as holding the position of Co-
Director of the Centre for Real-World
Learning. He is the author of over twenty
books, including What’s the Point of
School? and is the originator of Building
Learning Power. His work in developing
approaches to learning beyond formal
education for the twenty-first century
is widely acknowledged and has been
used in many schools both in the UK and
around the world.
JON COLES
Jon Coles is the Chief Executive of the
United Church Schools Trust.
JON COOK
Jon is a project manager in the Eden
Talent Team and describes himself as “a
full-time optimist”! He has a background
in managing and delivering services for
vulnerable young people and adults
within the voluntary sector and he
currently works on a variety of projects
and programmes which are targeted
at maximising opportunities for young
people and businesses in a low carbon
economy, including Green Talent.
STEPHEN COOK
Steve Cook is Director of Performing
Arts College and AST at Formby High
School, an Ofsted “outstanding” school
and specialist performing arts & science
college on Merseyside. He leads CPD and
training locally and nationally as part of
his role as a Music Lead Practitioner for
the SSAT. He has developed resources,
units of work and case studies, practical
guides and resources for new initiatives
and developments in music education.
He is an experienced choral director and
vocal practitioner, directing four choirs at
school: Mundo Afrika, Midnight Voices,
NFG (Not For Girls) and G:Force Gospel
Choir. He works closely with “Sing Up”
to lead a cluster programme with local
schools.
ANDREW COPSON
Andrew became Chief Executive of
the British Humanist Association in
2009 after five years coordinating
the BHA’s education and public affairs
work. He has advised on Humanism
for the Qualifications and Curriculum
Development Authority and the
Department for Children, Schools and
Families and is a director of the Religious
Education Council of England and Wales
and the National Council for Faiths and
Beliefs in Further Education. He was a
member of the winning team of the 2005
Young Educational Thinker of the Year
Programme and originally came to the
BHA from the Citizenship Foundation,
where he worked on political literacy
projects.
DAVID CORKE
David Corke is Head of Research
and Development at the Peter Jones
Foundation.
HANNAH COUCHMAN
Hannah first became involved in student
voice and children’s rights at the age of
12 when she joined the Children’s Rights
Alliance as a young panel member. She
has since worked with the National
Children’s Bureau, Changemakers and
Get Connected. She first became
involved with StudentVoice when they
were still the English Secondary Students
Association (ESSA), acting as a National
Council member and member of the
international liaison team. Hannah has
contributed a number of articles on
student voice and young people’s issues to
national newspapers and journals. Hannah
has worked with the Phoenix Education
Trust, StudentVoice’s parent organisation,
since September 2011. She is a qualified
barrister and graduated from the
University of Oxford with a degree in law.
She is particularly interested in working
with hard-to-reach and disengaged
students and the “rights” dimension to
student voice.
ANNABEL CROFT
Annabel Croft is a former professional
tennis player who won numerous titles.
She retired at the age of 21 and became a
television and radio presenter.
DAVID CRYSTAL
David Crystal is a specialist in English
language and Honorary Professor of
Linguistics at the University of Bangor,
and has also worked for many years as a
writer, editor, lecturer and broadcaster.
He is the author of many books
on language, including notably The
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
and, most recently, The Story of English
in 100 Words. David is patron of the
International Association of Teachers of
English as a Foreign Language, as well as
President of the UK National Literacy
Association. He received an OBE for
services to the English language in 1995.
MARY CURNOCK COOK
Mary Curnock Cook has been Chief
Executive of UCAS since 2010, and is a
governor at Swindon Academy. Prior to
this, she was Director of Qualifications
and Skills at the Qualifications &
Curriculum Development Agency for
six years, leading qualifications policy for
GCSEs, A Levels and Diplomas. Mary has
also served as a council member for the
Further Education Funding Council. In
2000 she received an OBE in the Queen’s
Birthday Honours for services to training
in hospitality and tourism. She lives in
west London with her three children.
D
JOHN D’ABBRO
John d’Abbro is Headteacher of the
New Rush Hall Group, which works
with children experiencing behavioural,
emotional and/or social difficulties. The
group consists of an all-age day special
school, three Pupil Referral Units, an
adolescent psychiatric unit, Outreach
Team and an Early Years Provision. Ofsted
has judged all as “outstanding” or “good”.
John was awarded an OBE for services to
Special Education in 2007, is a National
Leader in Education and an Apple
Distinguished Educator. John was selected
as the Headteacher for Jamie Oliver’s
Dream School TV Series. John likes to
take part in TeachMeet events.
LEWIS DARTNELL
Dr Lewis Dartnell (lewisdartnell.com)
is a research fellow based at University
College London, studying how life, and
signs of its existence, might survive the
cosmic radiation beating down onto the
surface of Mars. Alongside his research
Lewis conducts a lot of outreach work
at schools, as well as public lectures at
science and literature festivals and arts
events. He also freelances regularly
in newspapers and magazines, and
has published a popular science book
introducing astrobiology, Life in the
Universe: A Beginner’s Guide (tinyurl.
com/LifeInTheUniverse) and also an
illustrated children’s book My Tourists
Guide to the Solar System (Dorling
Kindersley). He is currently researching
and writing his third book: Aftermath:
How to Rebuild Civilisation.
MARK DAWE
Mark Dawe was appointed Chief
Executive in November 2010 and is
currently Chair of the JCQ. Previously
Mark was Principal and Chief Executive
of Oaklands College in Hertfordshire. He
was a board member of the Association
of Learning Providers, Chair of the
Association of Colleges for the Eastern
Region, a Trustee of awarding body VTCT
and board member of the Principals’
Professional Council. He also recently
headed the Capital Task Group on behalf
of the Association of Colleges and was
Chair of the National Capital Reference
Group. After qualifying as a Chartered
Accountant, Mark joined Canterbury
College, becoming Head of Corporate
Services in 1994. In 2000, he helped set
up eGS, an e-procurement provider to
public sector customers. Mark is currently
a governor of Sawston Village College,
a secondary school which has just
converted to an Academy.
BRIAN DE LORD
Brian is the Director of Education for
Catch22. His role involves responding
to Government policies outsourcing
education services to the independent
providers and creating a range of
effective education services that are both
systemic and value for money. Brian has
worked with young people throughout
his professional life, as a teacher, youth
worker and therapist. He has been the
CEO and Headteacher of Pupil Parent
Partnership, a not-for-profit voluntary
organisation established in 1994 to offer
educational and therapeutic support to
young people and their families in West
London. He has devised a Master of Arts
in Social Inclusion in partnership with
Manchester Metropolitan University and
managed a Post Graduate Certificate
course in Counselling Skills and Guidance
at Brunel University. Both these courses
are based on the PPP methodology of
supporting young people.
NICK DENNIS
Nick teaches History at Felsted in Essex
where he is also an Assistant Head
with responsibility for student voice,
teaching and learning, and the strategic
development of ICT. Nick is an Apple
Education Mentor and runs the Apple
Regional Training Centre at Felsted.
Nick is a trainer in the effective use of
ICT in the classroom has also worked
with NGOs to provide skills to teachers
in Turkey and beyond. He is a member
of the Independent Schools Council
ICT Strategy Group and has authored a
number of historical resources including
an audiobook on German History for
GCSEPod and has a forthcoming book
on twentieth century Chinese history
for Hodder Murray due in 2013. From
September 2012, Nick will be taking up
the position of Deputy Head (Academic)
at Berkhamsted School.
FINTAN DONOHUE
Fintan Donohue is Principal and Chief
Executive of North Hertfordshire
College.
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DANNY DORLING
Danny Dorling is a Professor of Human
Geography at the University of Sheffield.
He went to various schools in Oxford and
to University in Newcastle upon Tyne.
He has worked in Newcastle, Bristol,
Leeds and New Zealand. With a group of
colleagues he helped create the website
www.worldmapper.org which shows
who has most and least in the world.
He has published with others more
than 25 books on issues related to social
inequalities and several hundred journal
papers (see www.dannydorling.org).
Recent sole authored books include So
You Think You Know About Britain and
Fair Play, both in 2011. In 2008/9 he was
a member of the Academic Reference
Group advising Ministers on the Social
Mobility White Paper. In 2009 he joined
the World Health Organization’s Scientific
Resource Group on Health Equity
Analysis and Research and the advisory
group of the Equality Trust. He is a Patron
of the charity RoadPeace, an Academician
of the Academy of the Learned Societies
in the Social Sciences and, in 2008,
became Honorary President of the
Society of Cartographers.
STEPHEN DREW
Stephen Drew is Senior Vice-Principal
in charge of Standards at Passmores
Academy in Harlow, featured in hit TV
series Educating Essex. The school was
rated as “Outstanding” by Ofsted for
the first time in 2008 and is significantly
oversubscribed each year. After 10 years
at Passmores Stephen is moving to be
headteacher of Brentwood County High
School in Essex from September. During
the current term Stephen is Acting
Headteacher for the PRU in Harlow.
CAROL ANN DUFFY
Carol Ann Duffy, OBE, CBE is a
multi-award-winning Scottish poet and
playwright, and has been Britain’s Poet
Laureate since 2009.
GEOFF DYER
Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice,
Death in Varanasi and three previous
novels, as well as many non-fiction books
including The Ongoing Moment (winner
of the ICP Infinity Award for Writing on
Photography), But Beautiful (winner of
the Somerset Maugham Prize), Out of
Sheer Rage (a finalist for a National Book
Critics Circle Award) and, most recently,
Zona (about Andrei Tarkovsky’s film
Stalker). A Fellow of the Royal Society
of Literature, he is the recipient of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters’
E. M. Forster Award, a Lannan Literary
Fellowship, and, in 2102, a National Book
Critics Circle Award. He lives in London
and his website is geoffdyer.com.
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KATHRYN ECCLESTONE
Dr Kathryn Ecclestone is Professor
of Education and Social Inclusion and
Director of Post-Graduate Research
in the School of Education at the
University of Birmingham. Her current
work explores how therapeutic ideas
are combining with behavioural science
in the Coalition government’s current
promotion of “character building”. She
is a regular contributor to the annual
Battle of Ideas in London: this year, she
is producing and chairing a debate on
whether psychology can and should tell
us how to teach “character” and “well-
being”. Kathryn is a member of EdExcel/
Pearson’s expert group on assessment,
is on the editorial boards of Studies in
the Education of Adults and the Journal
of Further and Higher Education, and
book reviews editor for Assessment in
Education.
CHRIS EDWARDS
Chris joined Teach First after working
in banking with HBOS and Lloyds for
four years in Edinburgh, London and
Stockholm across their real estate,
leveraged finance, treasury and
restructuring divisions. Initially applying
to join Teach First in case of redundancy,
when this didn’t happen, Chris deferred
for a year before choosing to take the
plunge into teaching anyway. He now
teaches Science at The Elmgreen School
in South East London, having graduated
from The University of Edinburgh in
2005 with a degree in Biological Sciences,
specialising in Genetics.
CARL EMERY
Carl is a writer and lecturer specialising
in Social and Emotional Wellbeing and
Behaviour Management. His experiences
include contributing to the Social and
Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL)
programme for DfEs, acting as a writer
and consultant for the QCA on both the
personal development curriculum and
the Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills
framework as well as being an advisor to
the Welsh Assembly Government on the
development of a national framework
for young people’s social and emotional
wellbeing. Carl has written a number of
teaching resources and publications in
this field including the recently published
Children’s Social and Emotional Wellbeing
(Emery, Watson & Bayliss, Policy Press,
2012). He is currently lecturing in
relationships and behaviour at Warwick
University as well as completing a PhD
at Manchester University comparatively
examining childhood wellbeing in the
English and Welsh education systems.
ALLIE ESIRI
Allie Esiri read Modern and Medieval
Languages at St Catherine’s College,
Cambridge. An actress from 1989-2000,
she appeared in productions including
Twelfth Night and Macbeth for the English
Shakespeare Co and aided with education
workshops. She was then a freelance
writer for publications from ES magazine
to the New York Times T magazine. She
is married and has three children (a mini
focus group).
F
RUTH FARWELL
Ruth Farwell is Vice Chancellor and
Chief Executive of Buckinghamshire New
University.
WILLIAM FLORaNCE
William leads Google’s Enterprise
engagement with the Education Sector
across Europe, Middle East and Africa
where he and his team are responsible
for promoting the adoption and use of
Google’s technology within educational
institutions including both University and
School sectors. William is an advocate
for open education resources, equal
access, and choice, thus ensuring no
learner is excluded from opportunity.
Prior to joining Google, William was
Head of International Sales and Marketing
for Elluminate, Inc. (now Blackboard
Collaborate). With Elluminate William
and his team were intimately involved
with the growth and widespread use of
real-time collaboration solutions around
the world with leading institutions such
as The Open University in the UK, the
National eLearning Centre in Saudi
Arabia, and schools in Europe, Asia and
Latin America. Home is outside London
where he lives with his wife and two
daughters.
IAN FORDHAM
Ian Fordham is the co-founder of The
Education Foundation, the UK’s first cross
sector, education think tank with a focus
on tackling the biggest policy challenges
affecting the system. The organisation
previewed at last year’s Festival of
Education and launched in November
2011 with cross party support. It has
since developed and delivered a range
of innovative publications and projects
including: Education Britain – which
contained contributions from 35 leading
thinkers on the future of education;
and the creation of the UK’s first
Learning Lab. Ian is a leading education
entrepreneur and reformer and has been
a senior policy advisor and researcher
for a number of education charities
and national organisations including the
National College for School Leadership.
He has worked internationally with
Harvard University’s Graduate School for
Education and Cisco’s Global Education
Leaders network. He is a former
secondary school teacher and a governor
at a special school.
CLAIRE FOX
Claire Fox is Director of the Institute
of Ideas, radio panellist, newspaper
contributor and columnist.
UTA FRITH
Uta Frith is Emeritus Professor of
Cognitive Development at UCL and
Visiting Professor at Aarhus University.
She is known for her pioneering
research on the nature of the core
features of autism. She has contributed
neuro-cognitive theories that explain
the particular social communication
difficulties of autistic people and their
special talents, and has tested them
experimentally. Among her publications
are A Very Short Introduction to Autism
in 2008; Autism and Talent with Francesca
Happé in 2010. Uta Frith is a Fellow
of the British Academy and a Fellow
of the Royal Society. She has become
increasingly interested in how insights
from neuroscience can help improve
both teaching and learning. She chaired
the Royal Society Working group on this
topic.
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YVONNE GILAN
Yvonne Gilan played many roles in her
life - actor, director, writer, art student
and mother, all contributing to her
24 years as a Teacher of Voice and
Performance. She founded her company
VoiceCraft when, as creative director
of business conferences, she recognised
that company leaders needed to improve
their presentation skills. Using techniques
which come from the theatre, she helps
reduce stress, stimulate imagination and
creativity and develop presence. Above
all, she shows people how to appreciate
the power and subtlety of their unique
musical instrument - the Voice. As a
pioneer of experiential learning, she has
been awarded Fellowships from London
Business School and Saïd Business School,
Oxford.
AA GILL
AA Gill is The Sunday Times restaurant
and television reviewer. His recent books
include The Angry Island, Hunting the
English and Breakfast at the Wolseley.
His most recent publication is AA Gill is
Further Away.
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MELANIE GILL
Melanie Gill is a psychologist working as
an expert witness in the family courts on
highly complex cases. She has also had
careers in both the TV industry and the
music business. In 2008 she founded The
Mindful Policy Group to bring expert
knowledge on human development to
policy makers, the media and society as a
whole. The organisation was instrumental
in putting the understanding of a child’s
early years on the political agenda and
has since advised on issues such as Social
Work, Mental Illness, Child Performance
and Family Law issues. The group works
in conjunction with a wide range of
organisations worldwide with access to
large number of experts worldwide:
www.mindfulpolicygroup.com.
TONY GILLAND
Tony Gilland is the director of the
Institute of Ideas’ Debating Matters
competition for 16-18 year olds. One
of the largest debating competitions for
sixth form students in the UK, Debating
Matters challenges young people to
engage in robust and in-depth debate
of the big issues facing society. The
competition emphasises substance over
style and debates cover a broad spectrum
of complex questions emanating from
the spheres of politics, science and
culture. Working in partnership with the
British Council he has helped to establish
Debating Matters as a successful and
popular national competition in India.
Tony Gilland is also the science and
society director at the Institute of Ideas.
VIC GODDARD
Vic Goddard is proud to be a council
estate boy from South London but
suffers the curse of therefore being a
Crystal Palace fan; if you caught any of
Educating Essex he was probably the one
crying. During his time as a PE teacher,
Vic realised that he wanted to be a
headteacher and set himself the target
of being a head by 40 and on the golf
course by 50! This led to him moving on
from jobs, sad to leave but determined
to make the next career step. Four years
in Cheam were followed by a three year
stint working in an international school
in Cairo followed where he took on the
role of Head of Faculty. On returning to
the UK Vic was fortunate to work with a
truly inspiring headteacher, Kevin Sadler, in
his first SLT role and in 5 years went from
Assistant Head to Head at Passmores
School (now Academy) in Harlow. Vic
feels privileged to be a headteacher and
is humbled every day that parents/carers
are willing to trust him to educate their
children.
BEN GOLDACRE
Ben Goldacre is an award-winning writer,
broadcaster and medical doctor who
specialises in unpicking pseudo-scientific
claims. He was trained in Medicine at
Oxford and London and now works as
full time doctor, as well as having given
many lectures in various schools and
universities recently. He has written
the weekly Bad Science column in the
Guardian since 2003 and the number-
one-bestselling book based on the
column has sold over half a million copies
worldwide. Ben has won several awards
for his writing, including an honorary
doctorate from Herriott-Watt University,
and he was shortlisted for both the
Samuel Johnson and the Royal Society
literary prizes in 2009. Ben regularly
appears on The Today Programme,
Newsnight and Watchdog. He created
the documentary The Placebo Effect
for BBC Radio 4 and is in the process of
making a three part documentary series
for the BBC World Service.
CARL GOMBRICH
Carl Gombrich is the Programme
Director of the new Arts and Sciences
BASc undergraduate degree at University
College London. The degree launches
this September with 80 students. It is
a flagship venture for UCL and plays a
key part in the section Transforming
Education in the Provost’s White Paper.
Carl has degrees in Maths, Physics and
Philosophy and was a professional opera
singer for four years, having studied
piano at the Guildhall School of Music
and then singing at the National Opera
Studio, where he was the Royal Opera
House scholar. Carl’s current interests
are mostly focussed on developments
in interdisciplinary learning, teaching and
(increasingly) theory, and the future of
Higher Education. He keeps a blog at
www.carlgombrich.org.
DAVID GOODHART
David is the director of Demos. He is the
founder and former editor of Prospect
magazine, which he set up in 1995. David
has grown Prospect into Britain’s leading
current affairs monthly and he remains
the magazine’s editor-at-large. David is
a prominent figure in public debate in
the UK. He is a well-known broadcaster,
author, commentator and journalist who
regularly contributes to The Guardian,
The Independent, The Times and The
Financial Times. Before Prospect, David
was a correspondent for The Financial
Times for 12 years - including a stint in
Germany during the unification period.
David is currently working on a book,
The British Dream, about post-war
multiculturalism, national identity and
immigration. He is married to the FT
columnist Lucy Kellaway - they have
four children and live in Highbury, north
London.
MICHAEL GOVE
Michael Gove is Secretary of State for
Education. He was educated at both
state and independent schools, in England
and Scotland. All his experiences have
led to a commitment to raise standards
in state schools and help children from
less privileged backgrounds maximise
their potential. Michael was brought up
in Aberdeen by his mother and father,
who ran a fish-processing business. He is
married to Sarah Vine, a writer for The
Times, and has two children. Michael has
been MP since 2005. Michael worked as
a journalist before entering into politics.
GER GRAUS
Ger Graus is Founding Chief Executive
of the Children’s University, a national
organisation that provides innovative
learning opportunities beyond school
hours. Ger began his career in education
when he taught at Taverham High School
in Norwich, and has since worked
in various significant management
and advisory positions, including for
Manchester City Council where he
was responsible for the introduction
of modern languages into primary
schools. Ger was awarded an Honorary
Doctorate by Staffordshire University in
2011.
AC GRAYLING
Anthony Grayling is Master of the
New College of the Humanities, and
a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s
College, Oxford. He is the author
and editor of over twenty books on
philosophy, and is a regular contributor
to many newspapers including The
Literary Review, The Observer and The
Independent on Sunday, as well having a
regular column for The Times. Anthony
is notable for his roles on the boards of
several human rights associations and is a
representative to the UN Human Rights
Council for the International Humanist
and Ethical Union. He is a supporter of
a number of educational charities and is
a sponsor of Rogbonko School in Sierra
Leone.
MIKE GRENIER
Mike is a House Master at Eton College,
a Governor at Reed’s School in Cobham,
and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
He has taught for over 15 years on Eton’s
Summer School programmes and has also
led sessions for the member schools of
the Eton-Windsor-Slough State School
Partnership. He specialises in promoting
greater co-ordination between academic
and pastoral programmes, as well as
leading staff development in the key areas
of motivation and creation of a school-
wide ethos.
LOYD GROSSMAN
Loyd Grossman is a writer and
broadcaster who has had a long
involvement with museums and heritage
in the UK. A former Commissioner
of English Heritage and of the
Royal Commission on the Historic
Monuments of England, he is Chairman
of The University for the Creative Arts,
Chairman of the Churches Conservation
Trust and Chairman of the Heritage
Alliance. Loyd was born in Boston,
and educated at Boston University,
the London School of Economics and
Magdalene College Cambridge.
HELENE GULDBERG
Dr Helene Guldberg is co-founder and
director of Spiked, the first custom-
built online current affairs publication
in the UK. After working as a primary
school teacher, Guldberg obtained a
PhD in developmental psychology from
the University of Manchester. She was
co-publisher of LM magazine from its
launch in 1997 to its closure in 2000. She
currently teaches undergraduate and
post-graduate courses in developmental
psychology with the Open University
and the US study abroad centre, CAPA.
Helene is author of Reclaiming Childhood:
Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear and
Just Another Ape?
JUDITH GUY
Beginning her career as a science teacher
(and subsequently teaching in Samoa, the
Cook Islands, New Zealand, the UK and
the Netherlands), Judith Guy moved into
school administration before joining the
International Baccalaureate Organisation
in 2003. She served for nearly six years as
the Regional Director for IB Asia Pacific
and a further two years as the global
Director of Access and Advancement.
Currently working in a consultative role
with Pamoja Education, Judith will assume
the role of Director of Enka Schools,
Istanbul from August, 2012. Judith has
a BSc degree in Bio-Sciences from the
University of Canterbury, New Zealand,
an MA in Education from the University
of Bath, England and a PhD in Education
from the University of Sydney, Australia.
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BEN HAGGARTY
Ben Haggerty is an internationally
renowned champion for the role of
storytelling as an educational tool in both
primary and secondary education, and
Honorary Professor of Storytelling at
the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK).
Having trained in mime and theatre
direction, for the past thirty years he
has pioneered the use of storytelling
as a performing art in the UK. Ben has
performed in theatres, festivals, museums,
galleries and schools around the world,
including having been a guest storyteller
in seventy international storytelling
festivals in twenty-five countries. He co-
founded the highly influential Company of
Storytellers, as well as organising Britain’s
first storytelling festival. Ben Haggerty
has pioneered the role of storytelling and
oration as an educational tool around the
world and has organised – and performed
in – many festivals and shows.
BEN HAMMERSLEY
Ben Hammersley is a journalist, author,
broadcaster and diplomat. He is the
Prime Minister’s ambassador to Tech City
and editor at large for Wired magazine.
His new book, 64 Things You Need To
Know Now For Then, is published in July.
KATJA HALL
Katja Hall is Chief Policy Director of
the CBI. Katja is responsible for the
development of CBI policy, business
planning and representing the CBI
to government and in media. Katja
is a member of the CBI’s executive
committee; she is a board member of the
Institute of Employment Studies. She sits
on the Government’s Better Regulation
Steering Group and the Creative
Industries Council.
JON HARPER
Jon Harper is managing director of Future
Foundations.
JOE HARRISON
Joe is a creative education advisor and
facilitator whose work focuses on the
importance of time for absorption and
reflection in learning processes. Over the
past 7 years he has worked collaboratively
with many schools and teachers in the
Northwest to develop creative and
slow approaches to education: www.
sloweducation.co.uk.
JAKe HAYMAN
Jake Hayman founded Future First in
2009 with the support of his consulting
firm, The Social Investment Consultancy
(TSIC). Originally a community project
focused just in his old school, Future
First will roll out alumni services to half
of all English state secondary schools
by the end of 2013. Jake’s background
is in social enterprise and development
and he speaks regularly on the future of
philanthropy, innovative charitable models
and social enterprise. Prior to founding his
consultancy and Future First, Jake worked
in New York with the foundation arm of
social purpose business, PeaceWorks. Jake
is currently working to build an enterprise
hub for start-up businesses, charities and
social enterprises in London and is looking
to then replicate this with the Dubai and
New York offices of TSIC.
NATALIE HAYNES
Natalie Haynes is a journalist, author,
broadcaster and stand-up comedian.
She is a frequent contributor to shows
and documentaries on both radio and
television, with appearances including
Women’s Hour, Front Row and numerous
other Radio 4 programmes. She is a
regular panellist on BBC2’s The Review
Show as well as having appeared on
Newsnight Review for its final three
years. Natalie is the author of fiction
and non-fiction books as well as essays.
Her first novel The Great Escape won
a PETA Proggy Award in 2008 for best
animal-friendly children’s book. She
contributes to The Independent, was
a guest contributor for The Times for
four years, and has also written for many
other national newspapers including
The Guardian and The Sunday Times.
Natalie has toured her live stand-up
comedy internationally, including sell-out
performances at the Edinburgh Fringe.
CHARLES HAZLEWOOD
Charles Hazlewood is an award-winning
conductor whose main mission is to
engage a wider audience with great music.
In the past six years he has conducted
over 50 orchestral world premieres
and his South African opera company’s
production The Mysteries was dubbed
“the most blazingly original theatre
in Britain” by The Times. He recently
had two landmark films on BBC4, and
regularly hosts his own three-time Sony
Award-winning show on Radio 2. Charles
made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2003 and
his BBC Proms debut in 2006. For the
2012 Paralympics, his festival Orchestra
In A Field in Glastonbury will feature the
first full-scale performance of The British
Paraorchestra, the world’s first ever
orchestra for extraordinary musicians
with a disability.
LUCY HELLER
Lucy Heller is Managing Director of
ARK Schools, an education charity which
runs eleven inner-city academies in
London, Birmingham and Portsmouth.
ARK academies are non-selective, non-
denominational, community schools
which aim to provide all their pupils with
the skills, knowledge and qualifications
to succeed at university and in their
chosen career. Lucy joined ARK Schools
from TSL Education, a subsidiary of
News International, where she was
Joint Managing Director. Her previous
roles include General Manager of The
Observer and Executive Chairman at
Verso, a trade and academic publisher. She
has worked for many years with a number
of charitable and voluntary organizations
including the Marshall Commission,
Community Links and the Bush Theatre.
MARK HENDERSON
Mark Henderson is one of the UK’s
leading science journalists, and has
previously worked as science editor at
The Times and as a columnist for The
Times science magazine, Eureka, the only
newspaper to have a science supplement.
He is now the Head of Communications
at the Wellcome Trust. Mark has a
specific interest in genetics, reproductive
medicine, regenerative medicine and
the politics of science. In 2011 Mark
was awarded the European Best Cancer
Reporter Prize and the Royal Statistical
Society Prize for Statistical Excellence
in Journalism. He has won three awards
from the Medical Journalists Association.
He is a regular commentator on science
in the press, for television, radio, online,
and at live events.
CHRISTIAN HILTON
Christian Hilton is a Local Leader of
Education and the Head of Stour
Federation in South Warwickshire,
currently comprising Shipston-on-Stour
Primary School and Acorns Primary
School. Shipston-on-Stour Primary
School, rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted,
has been recognised as a regional leader
in creative and inspiring ways of using
ICT across the curriculum and across
the whole school community. Central to
the schools development of technology
has been a focus on ‘real life’ impact on
learning and communication. Shipston
Primary is a strategic partner in the
Gateway Teaching Alliance Teaching
School in Warwickshire, which is
developing joint professional development
opportunities and nurturing leadership
capacity and talent.
RUSSELL HOBBY
Russell Hobby was born in Abingdon,
Oxfordshire. He studied Philosophy,
Politics and Economics, at Oxford,
graduating with a first class degree in
1993. Russell’s experience spanning
education, private industry and
government has made him a passionate
advocate of the quality of leadership in
our schools, and he has had frequent
opportunity to spread the word on the
lessons that business could learn from
education. Taking up the post as General
Secretary of the NAHT has given him
the opportunity to campaign directly for
the conditions that enable people to be
great leaders in our schools. Russell lives
in Brighton and has two children at school
in the town.
MIKE HOPKINS
Mike Hopkins is in his thirtieth year in
further education. In 2004 he became a
Senior Civil Servant in Wales, responsible
for planning and funding further and
higher education, and in July 2010,
returned to the sector as Principal
and Chief Executive of Middlesbrough
College. Since arriving at Middlesbrough,
the College has begun to play a key role
in helping inform and shape post 16
education policy. The College is a founder
member of the “Gazelle” group which
consists of 17 colleges committed to
“entrepreneurship as a strategic deliverer
for change in the education sector”.
RICHARD HOSKINS
Richard Hoskins has worked on many of
Britain’s biggest criminal investigations,
often involving children. He is the only
registered multi-cultural expert on the
national police database. His expertise has
taken him to Europe and beyond. Richard
took a double First at Oxford followed
quickly by a PhD at King’s College
London. He has taught at both Higher
and Secondary level, including a stint as
Deputy Head. It was as a Senior Lecturer
in the study of religions in Bath that
Richard was first approached by officers
investigating the 2001 Thames torso case.
Since then Richard has applied his cultural
and religious expertise to over a hundred
major investigations by police and social
services. This includes the major Child B
case and the Christmas Day murder 2010
in which Richard played a lead role for the
prosecution case at the 2012 Old Bailey
trial. Richard’s book The Boy in the River
is published by MacMillan. Richard is now
a full-time writer and expert consultant
to police and other agencies. He divides
his time between Devon and London. He
enjoys reading and running, though not at
the same time.
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