A business manager has become one of the first non-teachers to gaina new qualification which will allow her to become a headteacher.
So, to be even more precise, here is a non-teacher who is one of the first in the UK to complete the National Professional Qualification for headteachers.

This is partly a matter of definition. Many would think the better title would be business manager. And why not?
Schools are institutuions. Many management challenges are general as well as specific. An NPQ should be able to assist someone wanting to run a baked bean factory.
Besides, ' teaching' is not what it used to be: too much form filling, not enough standing in front of a class.
A friend, who was indeed a head teacher in a primary school, left the profession for that very reason: they loved teaching, but instead of the former modicum of administration, a host of government requirements had turned them into a full-time civil servant.
If that is increasingly the case, it is no longer essential, it seems, for headteachers to have a history of 20 or so years at the coal face.
But, of course it helps - and has many parallels. ie if you want to be a cowboy, it's advantageous to be able to ride a horse.
Gone are the days when headteachers were curly-collared Latin scholars or stern theologians invariably from Oxbridge.
The headteacher of one Liverpool school is a former head of physical education. So there we are, children: it doesn't just happen in Grange Hill....

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