No matter how enthusiastic a student is, or how supportive their parents are, homework can be a constant battle. At the end of the working day, adults are exhausted while children would quite often ...

Parents’ evenings have long sent a shudder of midweek panic through busy families. To get there, they often have to juggle two full-time jobs, rush hour traffic, looking after other family members and ...

Pressure on students and teachers In August this year, the Guardian reported that while ‘students attending independent schools in England achieved top GCSE grades at twice the rate of those attending ...

Small ads That said, some advertising is well worth the price, particularly if it is a small ad and a small price. Parish and community magazines are particularly good value – advertising can cost as ...

One report advocates replacing GCSEs with academic, technical exams and apprenticeships at 18 Guide Education founder Leon Hady is resolute: “Exams are no longer fit for purpose,” he says, adamantly, ...

The UK has long been a technological and scientific powerhouse. This has, in large part, been a result of its education system inspiring the country’s youth to research, innovate, invent, and discover ...

Stephen Burley, headmaster at King’s High Warwick The classroom of the future – the mentoring model In schools across the world a single model of teaching and learning is dominant, and has been for a ...

Work has begun on a pedestrianisation programme at Taunton School, with the aim of turning asphalt roads and paths into a ‘green heart’ in the centre of the campus. The £360,00 plan will see the ...

Parsons Green Prep, or PGP, in Fulham is an independent school for boys and girls aged 4–11 and was rated Excellent in all areas of its 2022 ISI Inspection. It won the ISA’s Award for Outstanding ...

Food prices are rising So, what are the global commodity impacts causing this? What do we know about them and what do they mean for schools when it comes to buying food? La Niña weather event has ...

Even prior to the pandemic, UNICEF estimated that approximately 175,000 children access the internet for the first time every single day, equating to one child every half a second. Since the onset of ...

From its foundation in 1907 until the 1970s, Downe House pupils dressed in a woollen djibbah – a loose pinafore with a deep hem which was let down as they grew – with coloured tunics in summer Pupils, ...