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	Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) is an association of the head teachers of 242 leading day and boarding independent boys' and coeducational schools in the United Kingdom, Crown dependencies and the Republic of Ireland.
		The size of the Conference has grown - as late as the 1970s, membership was confined to a maximum of 200.
		The Conference dates from 1869 when Edward Thring, Headmaster of Uppingham, asked thirty seven of his fellow headmasters to meet at his house to consider the formation of a "School Society and Annual Conference".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Headmasters'_and_Headmistresses'_Conference (738 words)

	Encyclopedia: Eton College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The school is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and of the Eton Group of independent schools in the United Kingdom it has a very long list of well known alumni, including 19 former British Prime Ministers.
		Slough (pronounced) is a town and unitary authority in the county of Berkshire in the south of England.
		The Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference (HMC) is an association of the head teachers of 242 leading British independent boys and mixed schools.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Eton-College (4502 words)

	Shrewsbury_School - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
		In 1868 the school was named one of the nine ‘great’ schools of England (along with Charterhouse, Eton, Harrow, Merchant Taylors' Rugby, St Paul's, Westminster and Winchester) in the Public Schools Act passed by the British Parliament.
		Sir Thomas Ashton, the first headmaster, gave the school a classical and humanistic tone that has been retained, though sciences and other studies are now also prominent in the curriculum.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Shrewsbury_School (333 words)

	King's School - HMC
		HMC was founded by Edward Thring, celebrated Headmaster of Uppingham, who in 1869 invited thirty-seven fellow headmasters to meet at his house to consider forming a school society and annual conference.
		Each year the member heads (headmasters and headmistresses of member schools) meet in early October to discuss and debate matters of mutual concern.
		Eligibility for membership depends upon the degree of independence enjoyed by the head and the school and the academic standards obtaining in the school, which are reflected by both the academic success at public examination and the proportion of the pupils who are in the sixth form.
	www.kingschester.co.uk /associations/hmc.htm (168 words)

	SIGHTINGS
		Schoolmasters in the cloistered world of elite boarding schools, which traditionally group hundreds of boys in dormitories in historic country houses, say it is impossible to keep a 24-hour watch on their charges.
		The schools are already under the microscope because of a recent study which found that almost half of their pupils had tried drugs by the age of 16.
		The results, drawn from a survey carried out by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, an independent group representing fee-paying schools, showed drugs came second only to family break-ups as the cause of pupil problems.
	www.rense.com /health2/faint.htm (533 words)

	Death of Community Spirit
		It was Mary Steel, headmistress of St Mary and St Anne, a private school in Staffordshire which charges its boarders £16,899 a year, who set the cat among the pigeons at the GSA conference last week.
		Both the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers have recently warned that the culture of self-interest and self-gratification has invaded every family to a greater or lesser degree.
		Yet tomorrow, at the CBI conference, what will be on parade is the loud assertion that Britain cannot afford concern for the common interest or any initiative that might promote it, so laying an insufferable burden on business.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views03/1116-04.htm (1087 words)

	Talk:Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Even if there are only low-grade examples of this, I'd at any rate appreciate a talk-page citation or two.
		Googling for "Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference" and "public school" together gets relatively few hits, and reading past the first couple of pages of wikipedia mirrors, the first I could find that says anything like this is http://www.marijuananews.com.
		There is the even more pejorative distinction between 'major' and 'minor' Public Schools, but no SHMIS (Society of Headmasters and Headmistresses of Independent Schools) school would be considered even as a minor public school.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Headmasters'_and_Headmistresses'_Conference (445 words)

	BBC News \| Education \| Drug use 'rife at independent schools'
		The survey of 173 schools and 2,400 pupils also found widespread use of alcohol, with 80% of lower sixth formers having drunk alcohol in the week prior to the survey.
		Published by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, representing leading public schools, the survey says cannabis and ecstasy are the most commonly used illegal drugs, with most use happening at weekends.
		In responding to the problem, the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference has issued new advice urging schools not to rely simply on a policy of "zero toleration" and automatic expulsion for pupils caught using drugs.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/education/258491.stm (396 words)

	Independent Schools Council - Latest press releases from ISC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Andrew Boggis, Warden (Headmaster) of Forest School in Snaresbrook, east London, is the new Chairman of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (1st January 2006) taking over from Dr Priscilla Chadwick, Principal of Berkhamsted Collegiate School in Hertfordshire, the first female Chairman....
		Dr Brenda Despontin, Headmistress of Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls in Wales, is to become the President of the Girls’ Schools Association on 1 January 2006, taking over from Ms Clarissa Farr, Principal of Queenswood School in Hertfordshire....
		Colin Ashby, Headmaster of Trinity School in Teignmouth, Devon, is to become the Chairman of the Independent Schools Association on 1st January 2006, taking over from David Vanstone, Headmaster of North Cestrian Grammar School in Altrincham, Cheshire....
	www.isc.co.uk /index.php/3 (277 words)

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		The Society is an Association of Headmasters and Headmistresses of some 96 well-established independent schools.
		It was founded in 1961 at a time when the need arose from the vitality and growth of the independent sector in the 1950's and the wish of a group of Heads to share ideas and experience.
		These are frequently different from the problems and approach of the larger schools but some Heads in membership of SHMIS are also members of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
	www.shmis.org.uk /default.aspx?id=429&tab=808 (418 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In its official response published this morning to Mr Tomlinson's interim report, the SHA calls for the introduction of an English baccalaureate, along the lines suggested by Mr Tomlinson, to replace the existing GCSE and A-level system.
		At its annual conference, the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, which represents top independent schools such as Eton and Harrow, came out against compulsory studies in the sixth form.
		The SHA report calls for a four-tier diploma to replace the existing system, although it says GCSEs and A-levels would not have to be scrapped.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art3014.txt (296 words)

	ePolitix.com - ePolitixPlus Lookahead - A forward look at education events over 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		October 3-6: The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference holds its annual conference in Wishaw, West Midlands.
		November 10-12: The first international conference on educating girls, organised by the Girls' Schools Association, is held in London.
		October 2-5: The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference holds its annual conference in Manchester.
	www.epolitix.com /EN/News/200406/b1eb9957-67e5-4f7b-b5a0-8440cd398ac9.htm (589 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Schools special reports \| Independent schools back A-levels
		The group has been charged with devising a diploma to be taken by sixth formers, which would encompass individual subjects but include other elements to create a single overarching qualification.
		The new policy statement, backed by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, the Girls' Schools Association, the Independent Schools Association and the Society of Headmasters and Headmistresses of Independent Schools, says individual subjects must keep their identities within any diploma.
		Heads would oppose subject prescription for sixth formers, the paper says, though some would accept some compulsory elements of a diploma such as an extended essay.
	education.guardian.co.uk /alevels2003/story/0,13394,1127795,00.html (444 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Schools special reports \| Public school body to admit girls-only members
		The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), which represents some of the top public schools in the country, has taken a step into the 21st century.
		The HMC started out as the Headmasters' Conference in 1869, representing male headteachers from boys-only schools.
		In the 1970s, as private schools increasingly began to go co-educational, the conference allowed them to remain members.
	education.guardian.co.uk /publicschools/story/0,12505,1472541,00.html (243 words)

	icNewcastle - Politicians 'should be kept out'
		Politicians should be stripped of their power over education policy to stop endless reforms damaging Britain's schools, a top headmaster has said.
		Martin Stephen, chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, also called for taxpayers' money told be spent on "buying" places for poorer pupils to attend public schools.
		He told the heads of more than 200 independent schools gathered for the conference that the new commission should be made up of universities, employers, parents and teachers.
	icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk /0700learning/0200pupils/tm_objectid=14720109&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=politicians--should-be-kept-out--name_page.html (408 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Education \| Private schools 'boycott' Bristol
		A group which represents the heads of public schools says it is advising its members not to encourage children to apply for Bristol.
		The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) and the Girls' Schools Association (GSA) are stopping short of a boycott, because they say their members cannot stop children from applying where they want to.
		But their advice signals an attempt to increase pressure on universities as they seek to widen access to children from poorer families.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/education/2818263.stm (563 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Private school heads reject baccalaureate
		Without the support of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) group of private schools the proposals, which would affect schools in England alone, may not get further than the drawing board.
		Their intervention will hearten supporters of the A-level who believe the qualification should be strengthened, not abandoned, in the wake of last year's grades crisis.
		Speaking at the close of the HMC's annual conference in Dublin yesterday, its chairman, Graham Able, who is head of Dulwich College in south-east London, said: "There is general concern at anything labelled with the baccalaureate or diploma tag because there is general concern about loss of flexibility."
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1058933,00.html (571 words)

	Schools' Labour fear
		THE five organisations that represent almost 1,400 independent schools were urged yesterday to unite as one body to counter the threat of an "ideologically frosty" Labour government.
		Tony Evans, the new chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, which speaks for 240 schools, said the sector faced challenges to its independence.
		The other organisations are the Girls' Schools Association, the Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools, the Society of Headmasters and Headmistresses of Independent Schools and the Independent Schools Association Incorporated.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/10/01/nhmc01.html (180 words)

	News 2004
		Secondary school policy should be taken out of the hands of politicians and handed over to a permanent standing commission, made up of employers, universities, parents and teachers, a leading independent school head said today.
		Dr Martin Stephen, chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), told members at the opening of their annual meeting in St Andrews today that, just as the Government had given decisions about the Bank Rate to a panel of experts, so control of secondary education should be given to those who use it.
		The HMC conference takes place at the St Andrews Bay Hotel, St Andrews, Fife, from Monday 4th to Wednesday 6th October.
	www.isis.org.uk /news/2004/041004.html (544 words)

	News 2003
		GCSE could be reduced to a two-subject examination, taken a year earlier than at present, to leave more time for a broader advanced programme, a leading independent school head suggested today.
		Graham Able, chairman of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC), told members at the opening of their annual conference in Dublin, that he believed the competing demands of breadth and depth of advanced level study required a three year programme rather than the current two.
		The Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference, established in 1869, comprises 241 senior independent schools, boys’ and co-educational, throughout the UK.
	www.isis.org.uk /news/2003/061003b.html (629 words)

	Press Complaints Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		They believed that this was irresponsible and constituted an "approach" to schoolchildren in breach of Clause 12(ii) of the Code.
		The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference also expressed concern that the principle of Clause 7(i)Misrepresentation might have been infringed in this respect.
		The editor assured the Commission that she had carefully considered the newspaper's position with regard to Clause 12 of the Code, which requires that the press do not harass, approach or photograph children at school without the permission of the relevant authorities.
	www.pcc.org.uk /reports/latestdetails.asp?id=322http://www.pcc.org.uk/reports/latestdetails.asp?id=323 (350 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Last year, Edinburgh was one of a number of universities to have been accused by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, which represents leading public schools, of positively discriminating in favour of state school applicants.
		However, its move is less radical than some colleges in Oxford and Cambridge, which said they would take students with poorer A-level results from disadvantaged backgrounds at the expense of applicants from leading public schools with better grades.
		However, Edward Gould, chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, said: "A-levels tell us about the academic worth of that candidate and to ignore that is to ignore objectivity."
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/19/nuniv19.xml (523 words)

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	ISA - Links
		Society of Headmasters' and Headmistresses of Independent Schools
		The Society of Headmasters' and Headmistresses of Independent Schools is an association of Headmasters and Headmistresses of some 95 well-established independent schools.
		The Independent Schools Council provides a single, unified organisation to speak and act on behalf of the seven independent schools' associations which constitute it.
	isa.eteach.com /hosted/links.asp (143 words)

	Divorce Blasted As 'Selfishness'
		Independent schools launched swingeing attacks yesterday on the "self-indulgence" of divorced parents and the "arrogance" of the world's major religions.
		The tone was set by Graham Able, the Master of Dulwich College, in his chairman's address to the annual meeting of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, a grouping of 240 schools many of which have been accused of "ripping off" parents by colluding over fees.
		He said that the children of parents who divorced in pursuit of "self-gratification" were far more likely than those who grew up under the same roof as their mother and father to require pastoral care at school to improve their work, behaviour and relations with others.
	www.rense.com /general42/divorce.htm (666 words)

	Education \| Chairman's address, HMC conference
		I have titled this conference Opening Doors as this phrase sums up for me our role in education: to open as many doors as possible for our students so that they may then choose which ones they wish to walk through.
		It is also true that the city of Dublin is particularly famed for its splendid doors, some of which embellish the cover of the conference programme.
		Hopefully future editions of Conference and Common Room, a magazine of which - thanks to the successive efforts of Nigel Richardson and Andrew Cunningham - we can now be rightly proud, will include contributions from international members.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4768542-110908,00.html (3942 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Stowe School
		It was founded on 11th May, 1923, initially with 99 male pupils.
		It is a member of the prestigious Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
		As of 2005, there are 490 boys in total, and 100 girls, all in the Sixth Form section.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Stowe_School (153 words)

	Letter from the Headmaster to Old boys world wide.
		Letter from the Headmaster to Old boys world wide.
		Initially the corpus should be from the voluntary and altruistic donation of OCs currently gathering and interacting with the visit of the Headmaster and Mrs.
		Please register and get others to register so that the opportunities of the information expressway and the connection of the stars may not leave us merely staring, wondering too late at what might have been.
	www.oldcottonians.org /letter_from_HM.htm (536 words)

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