Kate Myers is Emeritus Professor, University of Keele. She is a Senior Associate of The Leadership for Learning Network at the University of Cambridge and an adviser for The London Challenge. She has been pastoral head in an ILEA comprehensive school, ILEA co-ordinator of the Schools' Council's Sex Differentiation Project, advisory teacher, director of the SCDC/EOC Equal Opportunities Project, and a senior inspector in the London borough of Ealing.