Speakers
Dr Peter Mason has been Principal of the Stamford Endowed
Schools, a trio of independent schools (IAPS, GSA & HMC) in South
Lincolnshire, since 1997.
Prior to that he was Headmaster of Reading School, a selective
maintained school, and has taught Chemistry in the Independent and
Maintained sectors throughout his career.
He is currently co-Chair of the GSA/HMC Education & Academic
Policy Committee and represents HMC on a number of national
educational committees.
For several years Peter was a senior examiner in Chemistry with
two examination boards and now maintains his links with national
examinations and assessment by being a member of the Governing
Council and Education Committee of the English Awarding Bodies.
Tony Charlton studied fine art at Manchester Metropolitan
University and the Royal College of Art. He spent ten years as
Information Officer at the Art and Design Admissions Registry
(ADAR) before, in 1996, joining UCAS as a School and College
Liaison Officer.
Currently a Professional Development Officer for the UCAS
Consultancy unit (“Wider Picture”), he is involved in all aspects
of university admissions and has spoken at conferences in Belgium,
Germany, Greece, Holland, Norway, Switzerland and Spain.
Tony has authored careers books on art and design, media studies
and sport and leisure.
Nicolas Plater is currently Deputy Head (academic) at
Norwich School with particular responsibility for Teaching and
Learning, academic development, curriculum and academic finances.
Having been Director of Studies and Head of History, he now
concentrates on pupil performance and learning in the classroom.
His school, as well as having a highly successful Oxbridge program
for its own students runs a summer Oxbridge program for state
schools. Each year around 100 pupils are referred by local
schools. Approximately fifty percent of the students attending the
program enter Oxbridge.
After taking a degree in Modern History at St. Edmund Hall,
Oxford, his first appointment was to St Peter’s School, York,
where he also ran the naval section of the CCF.
Sue Holt spent most of her career at the British School of
Brussels where she held various posts including Deputy Head
(Curriculum), Head of the Secondary and Vice Principal, and
finally as Acting Principal before moving to Argentina where she
became the CEM centre’s consultant for Latin America.
Her work took her to Peru, Brazil and Chile as well as Argentina.
Sue has twice been a speaker at the COBIS annual conference; on
the first occasion she spoke on NPQH and was the first person in
mainland Europe to achieve this qualification, and most recently
was a speaker at the King’s Group conference in San Pedro de
Alcántara.
Her interest in using assessment data to meet the needs of
individual children as well as fostering school improvement
continues; she is currently working towards the Kingston Post
Graduate Diploma in Special Educational Needs
Dr. Philip Evans has been Head Master of Bedford School
since 1990. The school has recently launched the International
Baccalaureate as an alternative to A Levels.
He read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a
scholar of Churchill College. After a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry
at Imperial College and post-doctoral work in Australia, he began
his teaching career at St. Paul’s School.
He was a Government advisor on education from 1991-1999 and was
awarded an OBE for this work. He has served on various committees
of The Royal Society, The Royal Society of Chemistry, the
Association for Science Education and the Headmasters’ and
Headmistresses Conference, including the latter’s academic and
universities sub-committees; he chaired the universities
sub-committee for six years, finishing in 2005.
His professional interests include assessment; value added
techniques; and the improvement of teaching and learning by
research-validated methods.
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