Clyde Chitty is professor of education at Goldsmiths College, London Pat Collings is an education management consultant and an assessor for the National Professional Qualification for Headteachers Peter Downes is an educational consultant John Dunford is general secretary of the Secondary Heads Association. He is an honorary research fellow at Durham University Heather Du Quesnay is executive director of education for the London Borough of Lambeth Robert Godber is head of Wath-upon-Dearne Comprehensive School, Rotherham Dame Tamsyn Imison is head of Hampstead School in the London Borough of Camden Martin Lawn is reader in education at Westhill College, Birmingham, and visiting professor of education at Umea University, Sweden Roger Seckington was a principal of three Leicestershire Community Colleges during 1970-93 and is now retired and living in Dorset Eric Spear is head of Staplehurst County Primary School, Tonbridge, Kent. He is a member of the Council of the National Association of Headteachers