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‘Every picture tells a story’
There are a lot of them. You could say they measure out my life. Maybe that’s why they are still…
11th July 2019
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One for the team
We have lived through changing times in education. No change there, then. In fact, living with and through a constantly…
29th May 2019
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A life in higher education: unconditionally yours?
I wonder if it’s too soon to write the eulogy for conditional offers of a place at university? An unconditional offer…
25th January 2019
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Music to the ears of educators
Put the right child – boy soprano – in the right church, preferably ancient and candlelit, at the right time,…
13th December 2018
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The school governor’s life: eyes on, hands off
There are moments when I stop and think, ‘Who would be a governor of a school?’ On my desk as…
16th November 2018
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Be careful what you wish for…
OK, so first you have to know that I am writing this on A-level results day, and whatever I intended…
7th October 2018
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Teachers: do you praise them like you should?
I you are attached to a school – teacher, parent, governor – you’re likely to spend some time at the end…
25th August 2018
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Many heads make bright networking
Once upon a time, at a conference in a galaxy far away, a very new headteacher (like, two weeks in…
29th June 2018
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The costs of the gender pay gap
It had to happen: the rhetoric of the business world seeps even further into education and now it reaches the…
30th May 2018
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The play’s the thing
A wise and kindly headmaster once ticked me off for running a fund-raising campaign to build a new sports centre…
15th May 2018
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