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Emotional Intelligence It’s a month now since the media sought photographs of teenagers jumping for joy as they flourished their A-Level and GCSE results. Featuring More
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Knowledge transfer It was in the early 1980s that several business people and educationalists came together to consider whether there was a role they could More
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Leaders or Managers? The Labour Party it seems is to go into the Election with a proposal that schools will in future be organised into More
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The solution to England’s education problem The first of the Party Conferences (the Liberal Democrats) is now over, and soon it will be the turn More
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Safeguarding without safeguards My friend is a remarkably fit and shrewd 85-year-old still able to make most valuable comments at the governing body of a More
2 Comments »Knowing Your Way Around
Understanding Maps We live in a world full of devices which, it is claimed, make life easier. Hardly anyone under the age of 45 can More
1 Comment »End of a Partnership
Collapsing democracy Under the Education Act of 1944 English state education was based on a partnership between central government who defined the structure, and provided More
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Voices from the past It was in 1987, as we set up Education 2000 (the precursor to the 21st Century Learning Initiative) that I was More
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Foundations of Intelligence Queen Victoria created a most dangerous myth when she told the English that “little children should be seen and not heard”. That More
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The Best Possible The papers are again full of what qualifications youngsters should have before training to be a teacher, and then what assessment tests More
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