Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving.
Pat Carvalho, Principal, BMet
Start date: June 2021
Previous job: Principal, Harrow College; Deputy chief executive, HCUC
Interesting fact: She enjoys thrillers, and grew up in Birmingham, so is returning to her home city to lead BMet
Jeff Greenidge, Director for diversity, Education and Training Foundation and Association of Colleges
Start date: January 2021
Concurrent roles: Chair of the board of directors, Groundwork Wales; Chairperson, Learning and Work Institute Wales
Interesting fact: He taught Latin to the Manic Street Preachers, whom he describes as “good lads” who made him guest of honour at their last concert in Cardiff
Helen Smith, Principal, The Bedford Sixth Form
Start date: January 2021
Previous job: Social science teacher, Melton Vale Sixth Form
Interesting fact: She chooses a new hobby every year, which this year was walking
Christina McAnea, General secretary, UNISON
Start date: January 2021
Previous job: Assistant general secretary, UNISON
Interesting fact: She is “fascinated” by genealogy and has spent time tracing her family back 250 years to the hamlet of Roag on the Isle of Skye
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