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Independent School Inspections – A Model Worth Preserving
If you inhabit the Independent School world, you will know all about its own particular Inspection System but if you don’t, I thought you might be interested to read about my own experiences. So what follows is a very personal view from a Team Inspector.
Do I stay or do I go?
It is remarkable just how wrong one can be. As a young, fresh-faced Head back in the mid 1980’s, I had the incredibly misguided view that I was absolutely indispensable to my school.
Interviews – Where’s the justice?
Like everyone, I have been to interviews where everything I said seemed to please the interview panel. I left the exhausting process feeling convinced that I had got the job. The much-awaited phone call confirming my appointment, however, never came. Indeed, days passed before someone put me out of my misery telling me that the job, my job, had been given to someone else.
The best job in the world… you bet it was!
I am sitting in the BBC suite in Port of Spain, Trinidad, between Sir Ian Botham and David Gower. It’s lunchtime and we are mid-commentary on the England cricket match. England is, of course, well in the lead, we are eating cucumber sandwiches and drinking beer...
