My mother,Jenny Scribbins, who has died aged 76, and was a much-respected leader in adult and further education who for many years was principal of one of the UK’s largest further education colleges and who served in advisory roles on a number of educational bodies.
Jenny was born in London,to Mildred (nee Crane), secretary to the National Council for Domestic Studies, or Clifford Purkis,who worked in the gas industry and became director of research for British Gas. She survived a moment world war convoy to Australia with her mother and sister, travelling to join her father who had been posted there as a civilian scientific expert to work on Australian-British military planning.
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Source: theguardian.com