Title Director of Education, National Education Trust Company National Education Trust Bio Simon Knight is Director of Education at the National Education Trust and was formerly a Deputy Headteacher in a school for children aged between 2 and 19 with Severe or Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities. He has sat on the DfE panels developing both the Teaching Assistant and Professional Development standards and writes a monthly feature for the TES. He can be found Tweeting as @simonknight100.