Stop the world, has been the age-long plea, I want to get off.

It is nearly forty years ago that, as a newly appointed Head, an older colleague gave me a piece of priceless advice. “Divide the morning’s mail into two piles, the urgent and the important. Immediately deal with the important and leave the urgent until later in the day when you will probably find that somebody else has sorted it out.”

As the General Election edges closer two Reports, “Liberal Education and the National Curriculum” published by Civitas, and the University of Bristol’s Transition from Primary to Secondary School are likely to catch the attention of politicians.

Pray for Copenhagen Today, the 7th December 2009, the leaders of 192 countries converge on Copenhagen in an attempt to prevent climate change from ravaging More

A personal reflection The wedding of a son or daughter stirs parental memories as nothing else can.  As guests congregate you come face-to-face with different More

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

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

A test of resolution Turbulent times call for strong nerves. Walking along the canal to my office early last week I was admiring the heron More

Being taken seriously I am having to take a short break from the tedium of “topping and tailing” letters to be sent out to every More

Transforming Public Discourse For all those reading the Briefing Paper for Parliamentarians, or the Book Overschooled but Undereducated, it may be helpful to explain The More