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Current methods of assessing children in school mean they are unprepared for the demands of higher education, a new report reveals.

Leadership can be imperfect. "In a way, imperfect leadership is the essence of professionalism. If the imperfections are COLLECTIVE rather than INDIVIDUAL, they increase the prospects of getting things RIGHT, and of taking the collective responsibility rather than...

Pupils assessed on body language, academic effort ! See this article attached. "Exams create immense stress, narrows the curriculum and has led to an industry of grind schools that unfairly favour the students of economically privileged parents (Hargraves, 2024).

 "Our role is to help make sense of what we see and hear, feed it back, and use it to affirm, challenge, and stretch what educators are doing together with a trusted and collaborative relationship of critical friendship"(Hargreaves, 2024, p. xi). This is the "Why"...

In schools we're often caught in the pursuit of quantifying the unquantifiable. As teachers, we strive to measure aspects of student life that inherently resist simple metrics – wellbeing, effort, collaboration, character etc. But the challenge isn't just in the...

Ed-tech utilisation and spending are growing significantly in absolute terms and as a proportion of overall school budgets. This is happening alongside rising user expectations, increasing use of unauthorised “shadow IT”, and powerful education mega-trends that are...