This year’s Education Festival was an apopemptic affair for me. Not only is my boss Anthony Seldon leaving but also several members of my own department, including festival director David James, the inestimable Joanna Seldon and my good friend Jim Heal who I trained with at King’s College. It has been a strange few weeks saying goodbye to so many colleagues that I am genuinely sad to lose and which infused the timbre of this year’s festival, one that proved to be an emotional one in many ways.
In just a few years the festival has gone from a few hundred attendees to over 5000 on both days this week. It is an incredible thing to have some of the most important voices in education come to your school and speak and I feel hugely fortunate to have been part of it.
This year as head of research I managed to convince Harvard faculty…
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