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The National College for School Leadership was an executive agency of the United Kingdom’s Department for Education which offers headteachers, school leaders and senior children’s services leaders opportunities for professional leadership development. On 1 April 2013, the NCSL was merged...
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Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College (DSFC) offers a unique programme of personal, physical and intellectual development, which provides its students with an education designed to meet the needs of today’s modern technical Armed Forces. DSFC is part of the Ministry...
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