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Freelance writer and editor. Digital editor, schoolmanagementplus.com NB: I don't monitor this account frequently. Find me on LinkedIn.
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30 minutes with…Helen Jeys, president, The Girls’ Schools Association

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By Irena Barker Verified
| School Management Plus
Helen Jeys does not shy away from the big questions in life. While many heads will happily chat about their vision for their school or a new building project, a chat with the head mistress of Manchester High School for Girls very quickly takes a high brow turn. As a teacher of religion and philosophy, she is keen to stress the two philosophical traditions that have shaped the way she thinks about education and leadership.
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Edinburgh schools relaunch under ‘shared identity’

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By Irena Barker Verified, Philip Purvis, Louise Bennett
| School Management Plus
Pic: Erskine Stewart Melville Two historic Edinburgh independent schools have relaunched this week as a newly merged co-educational school, Erskine Stewart Melville. The newly-named 3 to 18 school opened its doors on Monday, the result of a merger between the all-girls Mary Erskine School, all-boys Stewart’s Melville College and ESMS Junior School under a single identity.
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QED Schools Group deals will not go ahead, parents told

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By Irena Barker Verified
| School Management Plus
Pic: Maks_Lab/Shutterstock Parents of pupils attending at least two schools due to be acquired by the new QED Schools Group have been told the deals are not expected to go ahead, School Management Plus understands. In a series of announcements earlier this year, QED said it would be taking over Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire, Lomond School in Helensburgh, Scotland and Warminster School in Wiltshire.
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