Sara Bubb runs courses on monitoring teaching and induction in LEAs and at the University of London Institute of Education, where she lectures in primary education and is co-director of the DfEE research project on the effectiveness of statutory induction. She writes for the TES and educational websites. She is also an OFSTED inspector, threshold assessor and external assessor for the Graduate and Registered Teacher Programme. Pauline Hoare has a wide experience of business techniques gathered during ten years in senior management in the electronics industry. She is an experienced primary head teacher, was until recently a lecturer in education at the Institute of Education, and is currently an LEA inspector with responsibility for early years. She also works with schools through INSET, threshold assessment, as an external adviser to governing bodies and as an OFSTED inspector.