Kevin Satchwell
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Sir Keven Joseph Satchwell, KB is the headmaster of Thomas Telford School in Shropshire.
Sir Kevin spent 15 years teaching in Liverpool and four (4) years as a head teacher in Wolverhampton. But it is his stewardship of Thomas Telford over the past 10 years that has put him in the spotlight. The technology college became the first non-selective state school in which all the GCSE/GNVQ candidates got top grades. Satchwell regards himself as a pragmatist.
It was again in the headlines because of its success in selling its online information technology course to other schools - bringing in so much money it can afford to put £1m into the formation of one of the new city academies.
[edit] Comments to BBC
"If something comes in from this government or the previous one that I don't agree with it goes into that round filing cabinet under the table", he said. He has expressed a belief that it is going to be "a very exciting time in education" ... "I think there are going to be lots more Thomas Telfords around" ([1]).
[edit] On being knighted
"Chaps like me, who come from a working class background, one of seven kids - my mum still lives in a council house in Wednesbury - you just don't think things like this are ever going to happen to you" ([2]).
