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​And most of us will also be able to remember the first time we entered a truly inspirational learning environment – perhaps as a…

​If I were to bring up the topic of testing in education, what would be the image first brought to your mind? Would it be a gloomy factory…

It is 2008 and my mate Rob has convinced me to play a role in rescuing a set of English results in a school in Wandsworth. The head teacher…

The state of young people’s mental health is rarely far from the headlines these days. Recent reports have focused on, amongst other…

I once travelled overland from Thailand to Cambodia in an unlicensed taxi. Making polite conversation with the driver I commented at how I…

Around a year or so ago, reasonably soon after his appointment as Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw was resported in the Guardian as…

I work at an academy in the North East of England, serving a relatively deprived catchment area. We recently changed catering companies,…

It started when our head teacher asked me into her office to discuss a proposal to help fill an enrichment period, three times a fortnight,…

I know that they are commonly used in early years settings – and increasingly so in primary schools, too – but I’ve been wondering…

I fell into writing about education by chance. For the first 20 years of my journalistic career I covered news, politics and wrote general…

Like most people of my age, where I went to secondary school depended on one thing above all else: the dreaded 11+. To this day I can…

​Back in 2011, Google chairman Eric Schmidt criticised the British education system for not doing enough to support the growing digital…

​Two years ago I was told to solve the problem of offering ICT enriched teaching and learning with a falling budget. Beforehand, we would…