…school. A skilled workforce, developed through pre-service training and continuing professional development (CPD), is essential for quality early education provision. Supporting children’s communication and language is crucial for good pedagogy…
My lessons from America
…Washington, I’ve got a wealth of material and I’ve had the luxury of some flying time to think about the key ideas I’m taking home. An overarching take-away is the…
Coding + Creativity = Careers?
…programming languages to solve computational problems; to design, use and evaluate computational abstractions that model the state and behaviour of real-world problems and physical systems; and how instructions are stored…
Academic Assets
…Most UK university endowment funds fail to grow as US funds increase by a quarter in a decade https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/uk-university-endowment-funds-fail-grow-us-funds-increase-quarter-decade-sutton-trust-research/ Conor Ryan: Endowments could help postgraduate students https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/endowments-help-postgraduate-students/ 1 Key Findings…
A fair start? Increasing funding for disadvantaged children in early years settings
…changes in the way we educate our youngest children and invest properly in this crucial period of their lives. [1] In 2019, according to Ceeda’s Annual Report https://www.aboutearlyyears.co.uk/media/1445/aboutey-annual-report-2019_general_release_issue_1.pdf The opinions…
Fairer school admissions – could you be the change?
…catchment area. Often, the best schools are oversubscribed, making the “oversubscription criteria” a particularly pivotal element in shaping their future cohorts. Currently the two most common criteria used by secondary…