Sir Ken Robinson: a revolution in education
Sir Ken Robinson (1950-2020) was a hugely influential governmental advisor on education and creativity who has led on strategy at national level for a number...
Category : Change Needed
Even the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders is sad
by dan
The school year is signed off with a hope that next year might be better Even for the general secretary of the Association of School...
Mix it up: friends of different ages
by dan
We are so used to school, and to children mixing with 30 or so children of the same year group. The difference for home educated...
School prevents children from exercising enough
by dan
School children are just not active enough and their health, both physical and mental, is suffering as a result Schools have cut time for physical...
UK children missing out on languages
by dan
Foreign languages are another incredibly important skill, especially for future jobs opportunities, which schools are failing to teach children French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Turkish,...
Professional writers’ advice to kids on spelling and grammar tests
by dan
Professional writers don’t know what fronted adverbials are either but they do know it hasn’t got anything to do with being a good writer Professional...
School fails the brightest students says government
by dan
Over recent years Ofsted have highlighted the way in which the ‘brightest’ children are being failed by school. The solution is apparently more tests In...
Inspiration from the Finnish system
by dan
What can we learn from the success of the Finnish school system? Finland, by many measures, is one of the most successful school systems in...
Not Fine in School – school refusers
by dan
For a number of children school is not something that they are able to cope with and they refuse to go There is incredibly sparse...
Sugata Mitra: School in the Cloud
by dan
Educational researcher Sugata Mitra’s ideas about self-organised education are now known all over the world. In 2013 he was the winner of the TED Prize,...