Conference of school governors

Tara Craig writes about a stimulating conference on education

The role of Quakerism in education was a central concern at the recent Friends School Council Annual Governors’ Conference.

The conference brought together forty-six governors, from 27 February to 1 March, at the University of Warwick’s Scarman Centre. Eight were governors of maintained or denominational schools and the remainder governors of the Friends Schools in England. The one exception was Keith Lemon, headmaster of Newtown School in Ireland, who was one of four speakers at the event.

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