Heads & Tales

Alex Crossman, now Principal and Chief Executive of St George's British International School Rome, joined us while he was still executive head teacher of the London Academy of Excellence, the state sixth form in Newham...

Sally-Anne Huang is High Master of St Paul's School and the first woman to lead it in its 510-year history. After two decades in girls' education, she took the top job at St Paul's in 2020 and this September opens the...

Lord Theodore Agnew is the founder of the Inspiration Trust and a former Minister in both the Department for Education and the Treasury. One of seven children raised in Norfolk, he failed his 11-plus and left for...

Tracy Fedonchik is head of school at St Luke's School, a K-8 school on a rare two-acre campus in downtown Manhattan. She came to education as a career changer in her late twenties, quitting a job as a vice president of...

Dr Carl Ward is one of the most influential voices in national education. He advises Number 10's policy unit, chairs the Foundation for Education Development and has run City Learning Trust in Stoke-on-Trent for close...

Jennifer Wallace is the New York Times bestselling author of Never Enough and Mattering, and a former producer at CBS's 60 Minutes. Her work began with a 2019 article covering two national policy reports that named...

Dr Alex Curtis is head of school at Choate Rosemary Hall, the Connecticut boarding school whose alumni include JFK. He has led the school for 15 years, but his journey started on the other side of the Atlantic – at St...

We recorded this conversation with Alastair Chirnside when he was warden of St Edward's School, Oxford. This month, it was announced that he will become the next Head Master of Eton College. Alastair was Henry's...

Vicky Bingham is headmistress of North London Collegiate School, only the 10th head since the school's founding in 1850. A classicist by training, she's spent her entire career in girls' education after falling in love...

Charlie Burley was a primary school teacher until a panic attack in his year six classroom led to a diagnosis of chronic stress and anxiety. The doctor told him he needed a whole lifestyle change. Now he runs The...

Jamie Beaton started Crimson Education at 17 after getting into 25 of the world's top universities. He went to Harvard two years ahead of schedule, is now on his 12th degree and has built Crimson into a billion-dollar...

James Hooke has been headmaster of Harrodian School for over 25 years. He joined in 1995, just two years after it was founded, responding to a tiny ad in the TES and turning up to the interview with his six-month-old...

Bill Kuhn is head of school at Birch Wathen Lenox, a K-12 school on Manhattan's Upper East Side. He came to education late after a career in finance, and fell in love with explaining things to kids while tutoring on the...

Susannah Hardyman MBE is CEO of Impetus, the organisation that finds the best education and youth employment charities and helps them scale. She founded Action Tutoring from her kitchen in 2011, grew it to 7,000 pupils...

Melody Lang isn't a head teacher. She's an investor, a mathematician and an engineer who's spent 15 years figuring out what actually works in EdTech and what's just noise. In this episode, she shares the red flags she...