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It started when our head teacher asked me into her office to discuss a proposal to help fill an enrichment period, three times a fortnight,…

I know that they are commonly used in early years settings – and increasingly so in primary schools, too – but I’ve been wondering…

I fell into writing about education by chance. For the first 20 years of my journalistic career I covered news, politics and wrote general…

Like most people of my age, where I went to secondary school depended on one thing above all else: the dreaded 11+. To this day I can…

​Back in 2011, Google chairman Eric Schmidt criticised the British education system for not doing enough to support the growing digital…

​Two years ago I was told to solve the problem of offering ICT enriched teaching and learning with a falling budget. Beforehand, we would…

The proliferation of research and intervention programmes regarding bullying in schools indicates that the phenomenon is considered a…

I was both lucky and unlucky when it came to my secondary education. From the age of 11-16, I went to two bog standard comprehensives and…

​These days a school’s online presence is more important than ever. There are lots of companies like mine who would love to sell you a…

​Have you ever flicked back through an exercise book and seen the same old comments followed with soul numbing certainty a page or two…

Is the opportunity to manage your own budget a particularly attractive prospect when making the decision to become an academy? Under local…

How do schools get better? It is a simple question that has been troubling politicians and policy makers for decades. The problem is that…

​Buying any type of insurance can be confusing, but for the growing number of academies now responsible for purchasing their own…