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Riding in Rajasthan
Karen Mort, AMC Recruitment Director, recounts her adventures on a recent trip to RajasthanOn arrival I experienced my first demonstration of driving, Indian style! “Horn please”, “Use dipper at night!” – No truck driver would dare to venture on the road without these instructions...
Educational Apartheid – a personal view
In 1971 apartheid hit me head-on. The racial brutality of the Vorster regime was in my face from the first day ashore in Cape Town and its manifestation was something with which I was going to confront for the next four years of my life. It was especially shocking, therefore, to read of the...Does it matter in which month you were born?
In his brilliant book, Outliers1, Malcolm Gladwell of the New Yorker describes an exchange between the Canadian psychologist Roger Barnsley and his wife when they were watching an ice hockey match in Alberta in the mid 80s. “Roger,” she said, “do you know when these young men were born?”...Jumping Through Hoops – interviews for school leaders
Some candidates feel as though they are jumping through hoops to get the job. Perhaps they are, but there’s a lot at stake for Governors if they get it wrong. I’ve recently finished recruiting a Head for a school where the candidates had to go through a process that was several times...Read more: Jumping Through Hoops – interviews for school leaders
Free Schools - A New Era
AMC have been engaged in supporting the applications to open ‘Free Schools’.Sir Bruce Liddington, Director General of E-ACT, formally the Schools Commissioner at the Department for Education, and Headteacher at Northampton School for Boys has said of the Free Schools initiative...
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