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Amanda Spielman
British education administrator
Amanda Mary Victoria Spielman, ACA (born 22 May )[1] served as HM Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills from January [2] to December [3][4]
She joined the senior leadership team at Ark Schools in From to , Spielman was Chair of Ofqual.[5]
Early life and education
[edit]Spielman was born in North Kensington, London. Aged five, she moved to Glasgow for her mother's lecturing job where Spielman attended Notre Dame, a state primary convent school.[6]
She was then privately educated, boarding at her mother's old school[clarification needed] in Dorset from the age of ten, and then attending St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith for sixth form.[7]
Spielman then gained a place at Clare College, Cambridge, initially studying Mathematics before switching to Law at the end of her first year. She graduated with a BA in [6][8]
Her first marriage, in , ended in divorce[when?]. She married Adam Justin Spielman, managing director at Citigroup, in [9][failed verification] They live in London and have two children.[citation needed]
Financial industry career
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Oxford Farming Conference address by the Environment Secretary
Introduction - History tells us science is the future
One of my favourite Radio Four programmes, second only to Farming Today, is The Long View.
Presented by the superbly talented Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland, The Long View asks us to consider current events in their historical context, draws parallels between the controversies of our time and the challenges of our past.
Few professions take a longer view than agriculture. Farmers plan, invest and produce for the long-term. While those of us in Westminster live in a world of hourly Twitter storms and daily news cycles where a week is now a very long time in politics, farming requires the patience and foresight to think in harvests and lifecycles, to see beyond the immediate and scan the far horizon.
Of course, the immediate political question which all of us must wrestle with is Brexit - and more particularly how Britain leaves the European Union in less than three months’ time. And I will address that question head on in a moment.
But first I do want to take a deliberately longer view. Because, hugely significant as the changes generated by Brexit will be, it’s important that we consider them in the broader context of the wider forces driving chan