Carey Schofield

Carey Schofield OBE (born 1953) is the British principal of Langlands School and College in Pakistan, noted for its academic excellence.

After a degree in English at Clare College, Cambridge,[1] in the late 1970s Schofield began working as a journalist, and wrote her first book, a lively biography of the French gangster Jacques Mesrine.

The school, despite its remote location (in Chitral in the Hindu Kush mountains), had developed a reputation for academic excellence, sending its students on to national and international universities.

[11] She sacked seven members of staff (including the vice-principal)[12] for "conduct unbecoming", which led to plotting against her; while she was out of the country, her work visa was denied, leaving her unable to return.

[13][14] Her enforced absence coincided with the October 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake and exceptionally bad flooding in the region,[15] which complicated matters as she tried to run the school from her kitchen table in London.