1. Anthony Seldon has been headmaster of independent schools Wellington College, Epsom College and Brighton College.
27 Facts About Anthony Seldon
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Anthony Seldon was vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham from 2015 to 2020, when he was succeeded by James Tooley.
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Anthony Seldon was the co-founder and first director of the Institute for Contemporary British History, is the co-founder of Action for Happiness, is a governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company, was the Founding Chair of the National Archives Trust and is on the board of a number of charities and educational bodies.
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Anthony Seldon is honorary historical adviser to 10 Downing Street and was a member of the First World War Centenary Culture Committee.
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Anthony Seldon was knighted in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to education and modern political history.
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Anthony Seldon's father was the child of Jewish immigrants who fled antisemitic pogroms in Russia.
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Anthony Seldon was educated first at Dulwich College Preparatory School, and Bickley Park School, and then Tonbridge School, followed by Worcester College, Oxford, where he took a BA in PPE.
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Anthony Seldon has an MBA from the Polytechnic of Central London.
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Anthony Seldon's first teaching appointment was at Whitgift School in Croydon in 1983.
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Anthony Seldon then became headmaster of Brighton College from September 1997 until he joined Wellington College in January 2006 as its 13th master.
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Anthony Seldon became executive principal at The Wellington Academy in 2013.
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Anthony Seldon took a three-month sabbatical from January to March 2014.
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Anthony Seldon announced on 23 April 2014 that he would be leaving Wellington College in the summer of 2015, after nearly ten years as the 13th master.
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Anthony Seldon has edited many books, including the series The Thatcher Effect :.
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Anthony Seldon is a head teacher and appears on television and radio and in the press, and has written regularly for national newspapers including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and The Guardian.
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Anthony Seldon has promoted well-being or happiness classes, which he introduced at Wellington College in 2006, and campaigned for a holistic, personalised approach to education rather than what he calls "factory schools".
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Anthony Seldon is a proponent of the Harkness table teaching approach used in the US and the 'Middle Years' approach of the IB, as well a more international approach to education, including a focus on modern languages teaching and setting up sister schools in China.
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Anthony Seldon is back at Wellington College as the Founding Director of Wellington College Education.
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Anthony Seldon has honorary doctorates or fellowships from the University of Buckingham, the University of Brighton and Richmond University and is a former professor of Education at the College of Teachers.
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Anthony Seldon is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Anthony Seldon was appointed a fellow of King's College London in 2013.
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Anthony Seldon was knighted in the Queen's 2014 Birthday Honours list, and in 2016 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bath.
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In 1986 Anthony Seldon co-founded, with Professor Peter Hennessy, the Institute of Contemporary British History, a body whose aim is to promote research into, and the study of, British history since 1945.
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Anthony Seldon is a co-founder of Action for Happiness with Richard Layard, and Geoff Mulgan.
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Anthony Seldon is a patron of The Iris Project, which runs literacy schemes through Latin in schools in deprived urban areas and of DrugFAM, which supports families affected by a loved one's abuse of drugs or alcohol.
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Anthony Seldon was a board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and was executive producer of the 2017 film version of Journey's End.
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Anthony Seldon was married to Joanna Pappworth, who died from endocrine cancer in December 2016.