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The easiest way to overspend on your ICT budget is to buy unnecessary solutions to problems you don’t have, so it pays to look at the big…

When the governors of Passmores decided to say yes to Educating Essex being made at the school none of us, in our wildest dreams, expected…

Top down reform – everyone seems sick of it. Whether it is pressure for structural change, prescription about the curriculum or the…

Enterprise education was and is a pretty hot buzz-word, with entrepreneurship now gaining more clout as a real option for students to…

Retaining and recruiting the right staff ensures that the school’s ethos is firmly established from the offset, an important first step in…

​From September 2014 the DfE introduced the risk protection arrangement (RPA). You may be forgiven for thinking that RPA had something to…

There is a time when the torch must be passed. When the acquired knowledge of a career is distilled and transmitted to the the the…

Is there really any point in investing in new classroom furniture? Research shows that classrooms have a discernible effect on learning, but…

It’s understandable that a budget-squeezed SLT might have reservations, but workshops with outside providers have much more to offer…

No matter what your situation, everyone could do with a little helping hand on the basics of good money management, and teachers are no…

Q I took a headship position in a large, struggling urban academy at the start of the 2013/14 academic year. After a good deal of work…

Te question of how this environment of electronic media and the ever-present internet will affect school libraries is one that intrigues me.…

With the education trade show themselves bombarded with myriad offers of products and services that all promise to transform their schools.…