Forum Presentations – Professor David Hopkins

Professor David Hopkins recently held the inaugural HSBC iNet Chair in International Leadership. He is a Trustee of Outward Bound, holds visiting professorships at the Catholic University of Santiago, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Universities of Edinburgh, Melbourne and Wales and consults internationally on school reform. Between 2002 and 2005 he served three Secretary of States as the Chief Adviser on School Standards at the Department for Education and Skills.

Previously, he was Chair of the Leicester City Partnership Board and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Nottingham. David was previously a tutor at the University of Cambridge Institute of Education, a Secondary School teacher and Outward Bound Instructor. He is also an International Mountain Guide who still climbs regularly in the Alps and Himalayas.

David has published over 30 books on educational issues, his most recent being ‘Every School a Great School’. “Every school a great school” is not just a slogan, but an aspiration for the next stage of education reform, in which each student has the opportunity to reach their full potential.

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• Professor David Hopkins' presentation: "Taking Literacy and Numeracy Learning to Scale"