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This week’s news of a new teaching apprenticeships pilot was met with mixed reviews: most media carried a dutiful rehash...
Read moreHelen Pike is the master of Magdalen College School in Oxford. She is also a member of UCAS Council representing the ISC and a member of the Sutton Trust’s Education Advisory Group.
This week’s news of a new teaching apprenticeships pilot was met with mixed reviews: most media carried a dutiful rehash...
Read moreThis week Sir Keir Starmer doubled the number of education policies he is willing to declare pre-election, with the announcement...
Read moreSchool leader wellbeing: Do you remember the 2006 book The Meaning of Tingo? You probably do even if the title...
Read moreI think it was December 1998 when I took part in a Spice Girls Wannabe spoof for the City of...
Read moreThis term sees the first teacher strikes in England since 2016. On February 1 the BBC reported that just over...
Read moreJohn Blake, the director for fair access and participation at the Office for Students, was quoted in the Telegraph this...
Read moreQueen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch in British history. How are our pupils to begin to comprehend her...
Read moreFriday 24th June: it had all the makings of a perfect day. At Magdalen College School, the day saw our...
Read moreKarl Marx once observed that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. I was reminded of this when...
Read moreSchools minister Robin Walker announced recently that there is to be a history model curriculum. One already exists for music...
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