Category Archives: Episodes and Anecdotes

The headmaster of my grammar school was T.A. ‘Taffy’ Evans. He’d been appointed to Worthing High School for Boys in 1958 – I became a pupil in 1961 – and departed in 1968 – the year I too left for university studies – to become headmaster of Steyning Grammar School. He was one of the… Read More »

I spent many years as an internal examiner when it was routine to submit one’s exam papers to an external examiner for approval and a ratification of sorts. Does this still happen as a matter of course? Anyway I quite quickly became protective of my questions, of their substance and the way they were worded.… Read More »