Speakers

With nearly 20 years’ experience in the UK independent education sector, boarding and day, she has led on whole-school change, including the creation and management of meaningful, ground-breaking pastoral programmes, major curriculum and assessment reform, and ensuring that teaching and learning is innovative, robust and future-focused. Fionnuala has written for major national print and digital media such as The Times & The Telegraph, contributes regular educational think pieces for the TES, appeared on panels & podcasts for the FT and ITN news. She takes very seriously her role as a passionate advocate of equality and education for young women, and speaks regularly at festivals & conferences, nationally and internationally. Fionnuala is Chair of the HMC Inspection Committee, Head of Heads for the GDST and a Governor at both King’s Canterbury School and Dulwich College. Fionnuala studied English Language & Literature at Exeter College, Oxford, and then worked briefly in publishing before moving into teaching. She was a choral scholar at Oxford and choral singing remains a major passion.