Digital Technology can be a Force for Good in the Classroom
“Digital Detox” is a phrase that we hear more and more, instantly conjuring up loss of control, fear of addiction...
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Communication
Politically-charged times
All eyes, tomorrow, will be on the inauguration of a businessman and former reality television star to the highest political...
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Challenging the shift to gated communities of the mind
Would you spot a large, potentially life-threatening animal standing in front of a shop window as you walked along the...
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It’s time for a slow teaching revolution
We have slow food, slow travel, even slow journalism. Responding to the relentless 'McDonaldisation' of the world, the slow food movement...
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Leading professional women react to comments by Brighton College head Richard Cairns
Top girls' schools and their pupils have hit back at comments by Brighton College head Richard Cairns that pupils at single-sex...
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Reputation writ large
Last Saturday Cobham Hall ran the first of the two Open Days we hold this and every academic year. It was...
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Is the eraser ‘an instrument of the devil’?
Guy Claxton, visiting professor at King’s College, London and Emeritus Professor of the Learning Sciences, Winchester University caused a bit...
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It wasn’t me, it was my teenage brain
New research is helping pupils to learn why they feel and behave as they do, and how to cope with...
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The invoice, the dry ski slope and the grandparents – a tale of modern manners
Family A invite child B (aged 5) to a birthday party at the local dry ski slope. Family B seem...
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Heads or hearts?
Last weekend I was at Box Hill School for a conference of Round Square schools from all over Europe. Apart from...
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