What's the difference between headmaster and headship?

Headmaster


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Headship


Definition:

  • (n.) Authority or dignity; chief place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Vic Goddard, principal of Passmores academy in neighbouring Essex, the school featured in the TV series Educating Essex, who recently published a book about the joys of headship, The Best Job In The World, says the document spells out what is going on across the country.
  • (2) His reputation as a transformative school leader was founded in large part on his headship of the Mossbourne academy in east London.
  • (3) Far from being unsuited to headships, he says, PE teachers are among the first to put themselves forward.
  • (4) He got most of his jobs at ridiculously early ages: a deputy headship at 26, a headship at 29, chief executive at 36.
  • (5) His first headship was at St Bonaventure's Roman Catholic school in Newham, which he transformed from a struggling school into an outstanding one.
  • (6) Sir Anthony Seldon, vice-chancellor, University of Buckingham First is the promise to set up a national headship college that trains school leaders, because that’s the most important problem in education at the moment – the quality of leadership.
  • (7) A much-sought-after teacher of invaluable experience is appointed by a Scottish local authority to a small rural school that would have had to close if Mr MacIsaac hadn't been available to take up the headship.
  • (8) The analysis is based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and uses event-history analysis to estimate transitions into female headship and economic dependence.
  • (9) Recent trends in rates of household headship and headship differentials by sex and color are examined within the context of a model that expresses the likelihood of heading an independent household as a function of age, marital status, parental status, and individual money income.
  • (10) The school's headteacher Lindsey Snowdon, who co-founded the school with her husband Andrew, resigned in October after a follow-up Ofsted inspection failed to find any improvement and reported: "It is essential that a credible professional is appointed to the headship without delay."
  • (11) She then became deputy head at her old school before putting her name forward for the Cheltenham headship.
  • (12) The conferring of state headship is an exclusive Anglican ritual, steeped in the Henrician Reformation.
  • (13) And Sherry Zand, who was appointed to lead IES Breckland School in Brandon, Suffolk, which was rated inadequate this month , despite never having had experience of deputy headship, left after just one year.
  • (14) I should feel excitement that 18 months of relentless planning is about to become a reality; that I am embarking on my first year of headship.
  • (15) The heir to the throne rules nothing, being heir only to titular headship of state.
  • (16) His first headship was at St Bonaventure's, a boys' Catholic school in Newham, east London.
  • (17) Most governors only recruit a head once.” He says about 75% of headship vacancies posted at the right time of the year are still filled through advertising.
  • (18) Half are jobs that will not be advertised when people leave, including two assistant headships; the other half will be redundancies including a teacher, reading assistants for primary children, a family link worker, an education welfare officer and a full-time counsellor whom Gardiner employed to support the mental health of vulnerable pupils.
  • (19) Headteacher Leslie Church said recent events had played a part in his decision to resign: "I truly believe that the school is entering a new phase, whether we agree with it or not, and I too want to embark on a new stage in my career after 25 years of headship."
  • (20) Nothing, not even the NPQH (National Professional Qualification for Headship), really prepared me for the daily acts of courage I see taken by my students.

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