Tag: independent schools

As a former captain of the South African women’s national hockey team, Susan Wessells knows a thing or two about ...

Back in 1999, when news of my appointment as head of Highfield School was posted on the common room notice ...

I’ve never seen my youngest daughter Gwen tackle the annual egg and spoon race at her primary school with such ...

Two decades ago, I discovered the extraordinary phenomenon of low-cost schools in the global South. In urban sub-Saharan Africa and ...

I would like to preface this column by saying that never have I had more respect for the academic profession ...

Fear of public speaking — or glossophobia — is estimated to affect as many as 75 per cent of the ...

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There have been some significant challenges for independent school heads and governors lately, including recruiting pupils in a time of ...

Schools could be asked to re-introduce daily Covid testing this autumn, in a bid to reduce the number of pupils ...

Nearly a quarter of teachers in the independent sector want GCSEs to be scrapped once the Covid crisis is over, ...