Buried in a breathless review of the recent exhibition, ‘Raphael: The Drawings’, at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, there’s a reference to something I know – recognise – but have never heard named thus. It’s a term that really nails a complicated and attractive quality one might wish one had, particularly if one was a… Read More: The real thing: authenticity in the classroom and beyond »
Have we arrived in a place where cash is king? OK, so when did the purpose of education become a hard-nosed process of steering as many students as possible in the direction of loads of money? Climb aboard at the age of five and head straight for the door covered in pound signs. Your path… Read More: It's all about the money »
You can’t travel any time-distance to 2017 without being aware you have lived/are living in revolutionary times. Consider education – who could have seen its current shape and concerns 20 years ago? Which is amazing, given it’s still – presumably – trying to do much the same thing. Or not. How disheartening recently to ask… Read More: Are PE lessons awesome? »
Gimme a soap box, and I will happily rant for 10 minutes about music. Specifically, music in schools. I owe my glancing acquaintance with playing the violin to the free instrumental lessons which were available in my grammar school in North Wales. They took me to Grade 4 and a rather short-lived place in the… Read More: Noteworthy »
Are schools doing enough to look after their staff? They say that by your works shall ye be known. Actions, reportedly, speak louder than words. Don’t announce what you will do to improve things, or describe your good intentions: just do it, to coin a phrase. So, if it is a school’s intention to do… Read More: Keeping up appearances »
Who, in the name of all that’s wonderful, would choose in today’s world to be a Careers Advisor? Can you imagine a more difficult, demanding and, possibly, thankless task than that of advising anyone on how they might make a living? Even that expression, ‘make a living’, seems antique. What young person, day dreaming their… Read More: New directions »