Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Girls' Leadership Development Conference



Tomorrow is going to be a big day. St Mary's has organised a large-scale Girls' Leadership Development Conference at West Road Concert Hall, University of Cambridge. Over twenty schools and 450 students will be taking part in the panel discussions, interactive debates and workshops.

Speakers will include Dr. Mary Archer, Chairman of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Professor Dame Julia Higgins, formerly Principal of the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College, London; and Suzanne Doyle-Morris, who will be launching her new book, ‘Beyond the Boys’ Club: Strategies for Achieving Career Success as a Woman Working in a Male Dominated Field’. The day will end with a closing speech from Girls' Schools Association President Jill Berry.

The theme of the event will be ‘transition’, inspiring and supporting girls as they progress from GCSEs to A-Levels and into the sixth-form world, a time when making life-changing decisions such as choosing universities, degrees and careers becomes top of the agenda. It should be pretty impressive.