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Are school students becoming spoon-fed exam machines?

University admissions tutors are looking for students who can bring something fresh and original to the subject rather than those who have been spoon-fed.  According to Rachel Spedding, Managing...

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Thinking comes to the fore

Recently Jane Simister, author and a specialist in helping schools to embed active thinking addressed an audience of Junior School and Pre-Prep parents and certainly got them thinking. Jane has been...

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Responding to Michael Gove in the Daily Mail and The Blob

Snow in late March is as unexpected as Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, embracing the world we live in today. Michael Gove Unlike the weather, Gove does not disappoint. True to form...

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The rise and fall of Paris Brown IRL (In Real Life)

Paris Brown, 17 years old, and in many respects a typical teenager. She gave an engaging performance on BBC Breakfast recently as she was unveiled as the country’s first Youth Police and Crime...

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Mr Michael Gove – let me introduce Sir Ken Robinson.

Tin hats on. Michael Gove has stirred up another hornet’s nest, this time about school holidays (too long) and the school day (too short). Gove attracted the epithet “Gove the Holiday Snatcher” in one...

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Mr Michael Gove – provocative and wrong

What do the Blob, Mr Men and Guardian education writers have in common? They all appear somewhere in Michael Gove’s pantheon of disapproval. The Education Secretary’s latest speech about the problems...

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My thoughts on textbooks, learning and iPads

Go back to traditional textbooks, says Education Minister Elizabeth Truss, because all that differentiation is a waste of time! In essence this was the message from Miss Truss following the publication...

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A journey to the Googleplex – a new way of thinking?

Should we bring the mammoth back from extinction? Can we enable a colour-blind person to hear colours? Did Charles Darwin blunder his way to his seminal “Origin of Species”? Fascinating questions which...

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Building an entrepreneurial generation

The European Commission has reported in “Entrepreneurship Education at School in Europe” that eight countries now have specific strategies to promote entrepreneurship through education. While Wales is...

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Has the school library a future in the digital age?

The concept of a school library in a digital age is challenging. With the capacity to download books onto a range of digital devices there is every possibility the library could look superfluous to...

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