Famous for self-promotion and his political biographies, most recently of David Cameron, Anthony Seldon moved from significant influence in the schools commentariat as Master of Wellington College to take up the post of Vice Chancellor at the University of Buckingham in 2015. He’s widely published and oft-quoted and is seeking to repeat the success he had with Wellington’s Festival of Education with an HE version at Buckingham.
Seldon is also importing his approach to teaching happiness in schools to the HE sector. Leading a mass-meditation session of vice chancellors recently certainly raised some eyebrows. Well connected and highly visible in the media, Anthony Seldon is also a potentially powerful advocate for the growing ‘challenger’ part of the sector, although Buckingham is the most traditional of that group.