Last two Regional Schools Commissioners are women

The last two of eight Regional Schools Commissioners (RSC) were announced by Schools Commissioner Frank Green at the Education Select Committee yesterday morning (via Laura McInerney) - the full list of eight is below.



Their names have been posted on Frank Green's DfE web page.

Jenny Bexon-Smith (Executive Head of Tudor Grange Academy Trust) will be RSC for East Midlands and Humber. (Some of her views are in the most recent edition of My Academy magazine (Page 13): '...the powers of inertia are very strong, as is the power and influence of what can be generically described as ‘the State Education Establishment’...)

Janet Renou (Executive Head of Skipton Girls' High School) will be RSC for the North.

Questions were raised about the fact that the first six appointment were all men, it was mentioned in comments under the original New School Finance story and elsewhere in the press.

The full list:

Red Region = North East London & East of England
Dr Tim Coulson - Director of Education at Essex County Council, previously head teacher of the successful William Tyndale School in Islington North London

Green Region = South London & South East
Dominic Herrington - the Director of the academies group in the Department for Education

Dark Blue = North West London & South Central
Martin Post, Headmaster of Watford Grammar School for Boys - The school's website said: 'Mark Allchorn will take over from me and become Acting Headmaster until such time as my successor is appointed by the Governors'

Yellow Region = South West
Sir David Carter, chief executive of the Cabot Learning Federation  (Bristol Post)

The Regions

Purple Region = North
Janet Renou (Executive Head of Skipton Girls' High School)

Orange Region = East Midlands & Humber
Jenny Bexon-Smith (Executive Head of Tudor Grange Academy Trust).

Light Blue Region = West Midlands
Pank Patel, Head Teacher of the Wood Green Academy in Wednesbury and a serving Ofsted inspector.

Grey Region = Lancashire and West Yorkshire 
Paul Smith, who leads Parbold Douglas Church of England Academy and teaching school near Wigan, will be responsible for overseeing the growth of academies in the region and will monitor their performance to ensure children receive the best possible education.