Kate Dethridge

Dame Kathleen Dethridge, DBE (née Caldon, born 1962), known as Kath Dethridge, is a British educator.

Biography

Kathleen Caldon was born in Barking, Essex, in 1962, the daughter of Frederick and Patricia Caldon. After attending Brentwood Ursuline Convent, she studied at Durham University, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in Geography. She subsequently received a postgraduate certificate in education from the University.[1][2]

Caldon became a teacher in 1985 and married Rod Dethridge the following year. In 1988, she became a deputy head teacher and in 1998 became head teacher of Churchend Primary School in Reading. She has been an Ofsted Inspector since 2000 and has sat on several of its reform groups since 2011; she was also a school improvement adviser between 2005 and 2010, was a national leader of education in 2008, and has been the associate director of the National Education Trust since 2011. In 2015, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).[1]

gollark: If you try arbitrary Sherlocky inferences in reality, you'll probably just be blatantly wrong because the world is actually very complicated and there are multiple explanations for things.
gollark: Or possibly any practical computer things.
gollark: Well, it is, but not for humans.
gollark: It's a shame it's not actually possible to do ridiculous inference like that in real life.
gollark: Yes.

References
  1. "Dethridge, Dame Kathleen, (Dame Kate)", (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  2. "Durham University gazette, 1983/84". reed.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
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