This timeless childhood riddle is still circulating around school playgrounds, and the answer remains the same – your age. A variant of this riddle appears every August amongst media commentators,… Find out more
As students, parents and teachers anticipate some hard-won grades this year, there is a general expectation that we will have much to celebrate. The causes of improved results are not… Find out more
Theodore Roosevelt once said: ‘In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst… Find out more
Emanuel School is an integral part of the community in the London Borough of Wandsworth. One of the key aims at the school is to enhance social mobility in its… Find out more
Every summer term, the Bradford Grammar School (BGS) sports fields are filled with the excited cheers of hundreds of happy children as local primary schools come together for the mini… Find out more
Amid these necessarily “anti-social” times, we have undergone a brutal social awakening. The shocking deaths of two unconnected people have brought to the surface a torrent of emotion and shone… Find out more
Blog by Robin Macpherson, Head of College at Robert Gordon’s College In tackling both the future of assessment at GCSE, and the curriculum that assessment is based on, the HMC… Find out more
Anyone in education knows first-hand how difficult this last year has been as online teaching became the norm, with both teachers and pupils learning new ways of working together away… Find out more
Schools who have stepped outside the TPS may now be free to offer more attractive packages, writes Dr Simon Hyde Benjamin Franklin’s two certainties in life, death and taxes, used… Find out more
Partnership working Hampton School has been working with Sixth Form pupils from six local partnership state schools offering support across eight academic subjects – helping to prepare them for next year’s… Find out more
Among the ‘50 most important documents of civilization’, according to Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan in Treasures of History, is the ‘nondescript notebook’ in which were written, in 1863, the… Find out more
The appalling revelations provided by numerous testimonies posted on the Everyone’s Invited website are shocking, but perhaps should not have come entirely as a surprise. Schools, wherever they exist, are… Find out more
The so-called ‘serenity prayer’ has always struck me as something that could have been written specifically for headteachers. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,… Find out more
Exam Appeals: The unappealing question. A blog by Kate Howell, HMC Director of Education. Half-term week provided a much-needed break from on-screen learning for pupils, and for parents and teachers who… Find out more
The Secretary of State for Education has repeatedly told us that exams are the fairest form of assessment. He has repeatedly told us that the government’s intention is for exams… Find out more
No school leader wants their premises to close, but they also understand the priority of public health and the need to keep children and communities safe. In view of the… Find out more
On Wednesday, I reached the end of a long, arduous but singularly rewarding term. I was convinced that I had tied up loose ends and written all of my letters… Find out more
As our schools move into the school holidays, the government has announced that all secondary schools and colleges in England will have access to rapid coronavirus testing from January. This… Find out more
The Exchange: staying in touch with the world of our pupils – blog by Sarah Kerr-Dineen, Head at Oundle School We will all have picked up along the way ideas… Find out more
On Friday, no less a body than the Press Association published claims that “private schools in England recorded the biggest increase in top grades this summer.” The basis for the… Find out more
