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.…

As I write this I should be packing for the school ski trip, that I’m still privileged to go on, and I can’t help but laugh about this…

The ambition of the SEND reforms is to ensure that young people move into adulthood with choice and control over their lives, and have…

Virtual learning environments (VLEs), management learning environments (MLEs), learning platforms and more generically, learning management…

I had been a head teacher in Nottinghamshire for ten years before I took a post at Rushcliffe School in 2010. Rushcliffe is a mile away from…

Used properly, data makes a huge difference in meeting the needs of every student and can be a powerful ally in stimulating positive change…

I am Rebecca Jilks, 16, and together with my brother Ben, 14, I go to the Boswells School in Essex. Last year our fantastic computer teacher…

Ed tech is a funny phrase, encompassing a lot of things. It refers of course to educational technology – but is it a group of apps? A…