White, Glenda Ann, fl. 2010, inspector of schools and educational consultant

Glenda White trained as a primary school teacher and worked in four primary schools in England and Scotland before moving into the field of teacher training. During the 1970s and early 1980s she lectured at Callander Park College of Education and Jordanhill College of Education, where she was Senior Lecturer in Primary Education. She then joined Her Majesty’s Inspectorate in 1985, inspecting pre-five, primary and secondary schools in the West of Scotland and Dumfries and Galloway. She moved on to become Chief Inspector of the Quality Assurance Unit at Strathclyde Regional Council in 1990, then Head of School Development for South Lanarkshire Council before taking early retirement. She subsequently became acting-headteacher of a ‘failing’ school and worked as an independent educational consultant, evaluating and advising schools and education authorities on aspects of quality assurance, management and the curriculum. Having fully retired from paid employment, she completed a doctoral thesis at the University of the West of Scotland on the life and work of the Scottish educationist, David Stow. Glenda White is presently an Honorary Teaching Fellow of the University of Glasgow and an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Strathclyde.

Glasgow, Scotland

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