Nicholas Tate
Dr Nicholas Tate, a British citizen, was educated at the universities of Oxford (Balliol College), Bristol (department of education), and Liverpool (institute of Latin American studies).
Following a career as a teacher, teacher trainer and chief examiner in England, as well as developing examinations in Scotland, Dr Tate joined England’s national curriculum council in 1989 at the time of the establishment of the English national curriculum. For the next 11 years, he worked for a succession of public bodies charged with the administration of England’s school curriculum, assessment and qualifications systems, becoming chief executive of the School Curriculum and Assessment authority (SCAA) from 1994 to 1997, and then chief executive of the new qualifications and curriculum authority from 1997 to 2000. Dr Tate was chief adviser to the secretary of state for education throughout the period between 1994 and 2000, under both Conservative and Labour governments.
From 2000 to 2003, Dr Tate was headmaster of Winchester College, one of England’s leading independent boarding schools, founded in the fourteenth century. Since 2003, he has been director general of the International School of Geneva, the world’s oldest and largest international school, where the International Baccalaureate was first developed in the 1960s.
As director general, Dr Tate is responsible for three campuses offering Anglophone, Francophone and bilingual programmes to 4,000 students. He has been responsible for planning a new campus for over 900 students, which opened in 2005.
Throughout his career, Dr Tate has written a large number of articles on aspects of history and education, as well as seven history textbooks for schools. He has also been governor of three English independent schools and chairman of a charity working with under-privileged young people in the east end of London. He is currently a committee member if the international schools association, the Association Genevoise des Écoles Privées, and chairman of the biennial Oxford conference in education. Dr. Tate was appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2001, in recognition of his lifelong contributions to education.
