John Herbert Dunston

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(born 1952,

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) was the head of

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and Sibford School, both English Quaker schools. John Dunston studied Modern Foreign Languages at the

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. He then undertook

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at the University of York. He taught in

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as well as the maintained and independent sectors in

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. He was an English language assistant at the

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(1973–74), a teacher and housemaster at Cheltenham Grammar School 1975–79, a teacher at

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(1979–90, head of modern languages from 1983). In 1990, he became head at Sibford School at Sibford Ferris near

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in Oxfordshire.Lottie Dodwell, A Farewell to John Dunston,
The Park
', Leighton Park School, pages 11–13, Autumn 2010. In 1996, he became head at

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, Berkshire. During his time at the school, he spent a sabbatical break as a Farmington Fellow at

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in 2009, funded through the Farmington Trust. He retired as head of

in 2010. Dunston became an Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) Inspector in 1994 and a Reporting Inspector in 2001.The Team: John Dunston

RSAcademics
UK. He was also Chairman of the Association for the Education and Guardianship of International Students (AEGIS) and the Society of Headmasters & Headmistresses of Independent Schools (SHMIS). In 2011, he became a senior advisor at RSAppointments, a specialist arm of RSAcademics that helps

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s in finding and selecting school heads. In 1977, Dunston became an Associate of the

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. In 1994, he was elected a

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of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a governor of Shiplake College, Oxfordshire, and

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, Harrow.

Selected publications

Keeping the Faith

Attain
', Issue 2, Spring 2007.
Johann Sebastian Bach and the Jews
'' The Friend'', 10 April 2009. *
Germans, Jews and the Enlightenment: Lessons for today?
', Farmington Institute for Christian Studies,

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, UK,

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'', 14 January 2010.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunston, John 1952 births Living people Schoolteachers from Oxfordshire Alumni of the University of Cambridge Alumni of the University of York English Jews Heads of schools in England Fellows of Harris Manchester College, Oxford Schoolteachers from Berkshire