"In my first headship there was no email, and the school still worked.
After 19 years in headship, Frood describes herself as "a frustrated classroom teacher".
In order for headship to become attractive again, Mr Marcon thinks the role itself must change.To glimpse one possible future, look at Parkside Community College, a popular secondary school in central Cambridge that takes most of the 12-year-olds who leave Newnham Croft.
But in Nigeria, as in most countries, female headship is associated with poverty.
The supreme headship on earth over the Church of England, though he had not sought it, represented Henry's major achievement.
The school flourished under the headship of Thomas Arnold between 1828 and 1842 and became, under his rule, a model of the British public school for following generations.
Otto subsequently gave Gerbert the headship of the wealthy monastery of St. Columban of Bobbio (southwest of Piacenza, Italy), and Benedict VII consecrated him abbot of the monastery.
When the head of a house, the paterfamilias, died, his position of headship devolved upon his heir or heirs.
But I had three young children and the children needed to be taught within a certain radius of my home and the deputy headship [at Godolphin and Latymer school] came up".
Meanwhile, Britain's faith schools are facing a recruitment crisis with a lack of committed Christian teachers available to take up headship or teaching roles.
That was one of the changes she introduced when she secured the headship of Lady Eleanor Holles school seven years ago.
