I spent a recent Saturday morning partly listening to Radio 4. The guests included a science teacher who, as part of an extra-curricular…

Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves as part of his general theory of relativity in 1916. Long undetected, they…

Last November, cricket coaches working for former England cricketer, Kevin Pietersen, ran a ten-day programme for disadvantaged children…

Magic isn’t in the curriculum, but every student needs a touch of it. You can’t download or buy it, but you can let it in at the window…

Q I am head of Y7 in a relatively small, inner city academy. We cater for young people from a wide range of backgrounds, but the demographic…

Physical geography processes such as erosion and transportation can be difficult concepts for some students to comprehend. Traditionally,…

The most successful schools are built on the idea that teachers constantly learn, develop and improve. This requires an approach that is far…

It has been reported that the Prime Minister liked to compare the last education secretary, Michael Gove, to Chairman Mao – because both…

NetSupport DNA is a supremely comprehensive approach for the easy running of a school IT infrastructure and provides a bonanza of features…

Schools spend many hours managing students’behaviour. In some cases, doing so can starkly eclipse much of what ought to be going on during…

To be fully effective, every school department has to take a regular, long, hard look at itself and ask some tough, searching questions. In…

A National Literacy Trust study exploring the impact of ebooks on children’s reading motivation and skills has found some surprising…

Last week my vacuum cleaner broke. I have three small children – all boys – so this was clearly a problem that needed solving, quickly.…