{"id":795224,"date":"2026-10-07T21:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795224\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:28:11","slug":"presidents-speaker-series-to-welcome-uk-headmistress-katharine-birbalsingh-newsroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795224\/","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Speaker Series to Welcome UK Headmistress Katharine Birbalsingh | Newsroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, October 23, 2026, at noon in the Seaver Board Room of the Thornton Administrative<br \/>\n                     Center, Pepperdine University will welcome entrepreneur and thought leader Katharine<br \/>\n                     Birbalsingh as part of its distinguished President Speaker Series. In conversation<br \/>\n                     with Pepperdine president Jim Gash (JD \u201993), Birbalsingh will share her insights on<br \/>\n                     education and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Katharine Birbalsingh CBE, is headmistress and cofounder of Michaela Community School<br \/>\n                     based in London, United Kingdom. She is known as \u201cBritain\u2019s Strictest Headmistress.\u201d<br \/>\n                     Michaela\u2019s Progress 8 score places the London school at the top in the country. The<br \/>\n                     National Inspectorate, OFSTED, grades the school as \u201cOutstanding\u201d in every category.<\/p>\n<p>Birbalsingh studied philosophy and modern languages at the University of Oxford and<br \/>\n                     has always taught in inner London.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free to attend, however, registration is required. Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepperdine.edu\/about\/administration\/president\/presidents-speaker-series\/?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=www.pepperdine.edu&amp;utm_campaign=presidents-speaker-series&amp;utm_content=newsroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">President\u2019s Speaker Series website<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, October 23, 2026, at noon in the Seaver Board Room of the Thornton Administrative Center, Pepperdine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}