Pamela Coward
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Dame Pamela Coward, DBE was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003 for having transformed her school, Middleton Technology School, in Middleton, near Rochdale.
She is a champion of the specialist schools scheme so beloved of government ministers - hers was one of the first technology specialists.
Since 1991 she has taken Middleton Technology School from the bottom to the top of the performance tables locally, recently being praised by Ofsted for the quality of its teaching and her leadership.
She says the honour belongs to the whole community for their support. "The challenge really is to eradicate street values from the school and to get everybody involved, to get parents supportive and to feel that education is valuable and to give children the confidence to feel they can compete with anyone anywhere", she said.
