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As those working in the education sector will know, a school’s printing and document management requirements are often considerable –…

Have you ever heard the age-old teaching aphorism “don’t smile until Christmas?” If you have had the privilege of working in educating…

Each generation is defined by the cultural events and socio economic challenges it meets. Today’s teenagers face some very real ones: they…

It’s getting to that stage in my career when a lot of the kids I taught as a fresh-faced young’un with hope in my heart and biros in my…

A steady stream of criticism and advice for HMCI Michael Wilshaw can be found across the media on an almost daily basis. This criticism…

September 2014 will see the introduction of the new KS3 curriculum in science – and what an amazing opportunity this is to take ownership…

At an inset session once I heard someone say that a teacher can make over 3,000 nontrivial decisions every day. Is that all? I thought. The…

Whatever the size of your school one of the most critical aspects of running it smoothly is to ensure all employees receive their pay on…

Fundraising at any age can be a challenge, but most will agree that encouraging children to take part can be a positive and empowering…

POPULAR (Maya Van Wagenen, Penguin, £7.99) What does it mean to be popular? It’s a question that plagues many if not most teenagers –…

Investing in hardware is daunting. Suppose senior management make the wrong choice and everyone ends up stuck with unsuitable, outdated…

With interactive whiteboards or projectors in most classrooms, PowerPoint is a staple of many lessons. We love them because we can…

In 2013, Sir Tim Brighouse, former Schools Commissioner for London, and Bob Moon, Professor of Education, published ‘Taking Teacher…