(1) I went to a reasonably good school, though I think I hated the headmaster just as much as he hated me.
(2) He would walk into the room and say, ‘I like this and that.’ It was a team effort, but definitely he was the headmaster.” Nautical but nice: Ralph Lauren unveils latest collection in New York Read more In the early 60s, Lauren worked for the Manhattan men’s outfitter Brooks Brothers behind the tie counter.
(3) Consequently, there isn't a week that goes by without Delingpole causing some sort of kerfuffle, then running away laughing like a naughty boy who has just blown off through the headmaster's letterbox.
(4) The headmaster of his Buckinghamshire grammar school once described Shayler as "a born rebel who sails close to the wind".
(5) He writes about a secondary school headmaster, dedicated to young people of all abilities and backgrounds: "Outside in the world the little meritocrats, those natural survivors, were climbing ... into dinghies, leaving the rest to make do with rafts.
(6) The first was delivered by Tim Hands , the headmaster of Magdalen College school since 2008, and given to mark Hands's elevation to chairmanship of the Headmasters and Mistresses Conference , which represents the prosperous elite of Britain's independent schools, including Eton and Roedean.
(7) Alec O’Connell, headmaster of Scotch College, where Mo went to school, said the “catastrophe was a tragedy of the highest order”.
(8) The real value of spending will be eroded over the next parliament.” Peter Kent, a serving headmaster and president of the Association of School and College Leaders, said school leaders shared the prime minister’s commitment to raising standards, “but we’ve got to have the resources to provide the quality of education he is talking about.
(9) Lindsay Roy, headmaster at Brown's old school, elected MP with increased share of vote.
(10) Lord Justice Leveson joined in, like the headmaster walking in on a rowdy classroom.
(11) He detested Downside, the Benedictine public school, quaintly claiming that the headmaster had "set himself up in opposition to me".
(12) Lawrence Stone was born in Epsom, and educated at Charterhouse, where the headmaster, Sir Robert Birley, subsequently headmaster of Eton and then professor of social science at the City University, London, was a strong influence.
(13) After furious lobbying from the public schools (the Headmasters' Conference was established to counter this threat), the endowed schools bill was completely emasculated, the only provision that remained was competitive exams, which only helped to entrench their social and financial exclusivity.
(14) In 2009 Niall Nelson, headmaster while Vahey was at JIS, gave him a reference for a job at Southbank international school in London.
(15) William Richardson, general secretary of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, said: "We are pleased that after 17 months, Ofqual has acknowledged and begun to address some of the failings that HMC has been highlighting.
(16) She said she told senior administrators, including the headmaster, about the incident.
(17) On Wednesday, a letter to parents from headmaster John McIntosh and chairman of governors Father Ignatius Harrison said money was needed because government funding changes had left the Roman Catholic comprehensive with a £250,000 deficit.
(18) "In this time of national crisis, it is incumbent on us all to support our government," his headmaster writes.
(19) Sometimes we’ve had managers in the past who have ruled like a headmaster, being a little bit too strict.
(20) Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian Retired headmaster and local historian Salem Ould Elhadje says no one knows where Kankou Moussa – the “king of kings” as he is known in Mali – established his capital, or even if he had one.
Headmistress
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(1) At Duncroft, according to some reports, he would stay in the headmistress's quarters.
(2) Alex Brightman (no relation to Sarah) plays a dissolute substitute elementary school teacher who molds his charges into a nifty band; Sierra Boggess is the headmistress of his heart.
(3) After two days, the headmistress told them that they all have to wear the hijab when they come to school.
(4) William Richardson, general secretary of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, said: "We are pleased that after 17 months, Ofqual has acknowledged and begun to address some of the failings that HMC has been highlighting.
(5) It was also where she intended to build an academy for girls, which never happened (though Madonna still helped build classrooms), all against a backdrop of missing millions, for which Madonna's side blamed the sacked prospective academy headmistress (also the Malawian president's sister), while there has been an ongoing investigation into the role of the Kabbalah Centre in New York … and (phew) see what I mean?
(6) Richardson's study was commissioned by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), an association of 250 private schools including Eton and Harrow.
(7) The age of chivalry is dead.” The novel’s theme, deftly laid out in a narrative that flashes backwards and forwards, to and from the 1930s, is the education of six wonderfully distinctive, heartless and romantic 10-year-old girls (Monica, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, and Eunice) and the covert classroom drama that leads to Miss Brodie’s “betrayal”, her peremptory dismissal from Marcia Blaine by her great enemy, the headmistress, Miss Mackay.
(8) The headmistress introduced us all to Jimmy Savile and he gave us all a kiss and he stuck his tongue in my mouth.
(9) In a wide-ranging assault on the policies of successive governments, Tim Hands, the head of Magdalen College school who takes over as chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, told the group's annual meeting on Monday that excessive interference and obsession with league tables had "emasculated the education system of this country".
(10) From a fairly conventional start, Louise Bagshawe, the daughter of a stockbroker and headmistress in Sussex, went to Oxford and then into the music industry where she was accused of partying hard with Nigel Kennedy and wearing Metallica T-shirts, before being spotted by Sharon Osborne.
(11) When I was a kid, Thatcher was the headmistress of our country.
(12) Dame Suzi Leather, chair of the commission, told the annual meeting of the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference today that due to the economic climate, private schools may need up to five years to meet the test's requirements.
(13) Andrew Grant, chair of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, said politicians and other critics of the fee-paying system should be grateful for the money parents are saving for the state sector.
(14) Forcing a woman to wear a veil has become illegal after a village school headmistress received sexually coloured remarks from an education official for having her hair uncovered.
(15) The real significance of Suzi Leather's comments to the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference is that there has been no change of view in the commission on wider public benefit versus bursaries.
(16) His mother was headmistress of the primary school, and had served as mayor.
(17) Her headmistress told her, "You have brought shame and disgrace on to this school."
(18) "When I was a kid, Thatcher was the headmistress of our country," Brand wrote.
(19) This was about Burke's early reference to her as Harry Potter headmistress Dolores Umbridge.
(20) "Both my mother and my school headmistress felt I would be wasting my education by going into the church," she told one interviewer.