John Dunston

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John Herbert Dunston FRSA (born 1952, London) was the head of Leighton Park School and Sibford School, both English Quaker schools. [1]

John Dunston studied Modern Foreign Languages at the University of Cambridge. [2] He then undertook teacher training at the University of York. He taught in Germany as well as the maintained and independent sectors in England. He was an English language assistant at the Gymnasium Eppendorf, Hamburg (1973–74), a teacher and housemaster at Cheltenham Grammar School 1975–79, a teacher at Bancroft's School, Woodford Green (1979–90, head of modern languages from 1983). [1] In 1990, he became head at Sibford School at Sibford Ferris near Banbury in Oxfordshire. [3] In 1996, he became head at Leighton Park School in Reading, Berkshire. During his time at the school, he spent a sabbatical break as a Farmington Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford in 2009, funded through the Farmington Trust. He retired as head of Leighton Park School in 2010. [4]

Dunston became an Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) Inspector in 1994 and a Reporting Inspector in 2001. [5] He was also Chairman of the Association for the Education and Guardianship of International Students (AEGIS) and the Society of Headmasters & Headmistresses of Independent Schools (SHMIS). [6] In 2011, he became a senior advisor at RSAppointments, a specialist arm of RSAcademics that helps school governors in finding and selecting school heads. [5]

In 1977, Dunston became an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. [2] In 1994, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a governor of Shiplake College, Oxfordshire, and The John Lyon School, Harrow.

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References

  1. 1 2 "John Dunston". Debrett's People of Today . Debrett's, UK. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Governors". Shiplake College, UK. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  3. ↑ Lottie Dodwell, A Farewell to John Dunston, The Park , Leighton Park School, pages 11–13, Autumn 2010.
  4. ↑ John Dunston, Head Retires Archived 9 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Leighton Park School, UK.
  5. 1 2 The Team: John Dunston Archived 20 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine , RSAcademics, UK.
  6. ↑ "Who goes where;People". Times Educational Supplement . 15 January 1999.
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