Les Walton

Les Walton CBE has been a pupil, student, teacher, ‎headteacher of a secondary school, principal of a ‎further education college, director of education and ‎national education adviser. He has worked in some of ‎the most socially and economically deprived areas in ‎the country as well as working closely with Education ‎Secretaries of State. He has written numerous ‎newspaper columns as well as articles for the Times ‎Education Supplement, Schools Week and various ‎other magazines. His last book, Education: The Rock ‎and Roll Years, was described as ‘visionary, ‎humorous, beautiful, rebellious, idiosyncratic and ‎beautifully idiomatic'.‎