Nicholas Tate

Edward Nicholas Tate CBE (born 18 December 1943) is an English historian and educationist.

After heading the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, he was headmaster of Winchester College, director general of the International School of Geneva, and chairman of the trustees of the Richmond American University London. Early life Born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, Tate is the son of Joseph Edwin Tate, a senior HM Customs and Excise officer, and his wife Eva Elsie Hopkinson. He was educated at Huddersfield New College, Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a scholar, the University of Bristol, where he gained a Postgraduate Certificate in Education, and the University of Liverpool, where he graduated PhD in 1985. His speech in July 1995 was covered by an article in The Daily Telegraph headed "Curriculum chief backs Britishness" and another in The Guardian headed "Teach children to be British stirs up a storm".

In November 1995, Tate further urged that children should be taught how to be good citizens, to halt a national moral decline. In February 1996, he suggested that Latin and Greek should play a far more important role in schools from the beginning of the new century. Later that month, he advised that schools "must adopt a modern Ten Commandments to give children a moral grounding and teach them the difference between right and wrong."

In August 2000, shortly after leaving his curriculum post to return to teaching, Tate pressed his points in The Sunday Times, in an article entitled "They come not to praise England but to bury it". He proposed that education "should include the transmission to the next generation of British values".

From September 2000 to August 2003, Tate was headmaster of Winchester College; then until 2011 he was director general of the International School of Geneva, home of the International Baccalaureate.

From 2011 to 2013, Tate was Chairman of International Education Systems.

In 2014, he was vice-chairman of trustees of the Richmond American University London, and in 2017 became chairman. In 2018 he noted that it was "the only University which offers all students both a UK and US degree". He resigned from this position in August 2019. In 2017, he was also a governor of Aiglon College in Switzerland.

Personal life In 1973, at Weymouth, Tate married Nadya Grove, a daughter of George Alfred Grove, and they have one son and two daughters.

Selected publications Pizzaro and the Incas (Addison-Wesley Longman, 1981, ) Countdown to GCSE History (London: Nelson Thornes, 1986, ) History (GCSE Coursework) (London: Nelson Thornes, 1987, ) Make the Grade in General Certificate of Secondary Education Modern World History (London: Teach Yourself, 1989, ) Modern World History, Study Aids: GCSE (London: Teach Yourself, 1989, ) Teach Yourself Study AIDS: GCSE British Social & Economic History (London: Hodder Arnold, 1991, ) What is Education for? The view of the great thinkers and their relevance today (John Catt, 2015, ) The Conservative Case for Education: against the current (New York & Abingdon: Routledge, 2017, )

Honours Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 2001