Back to school. Three words that are loaded with extra meaning this year. I don’t really recall how I felt about going back to school…
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Many years ago, I helped to develop a culture of continual assessment in English schools, particularly at AS and A level, moving away from final…
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More than twenty years ago, in 1998, The Age magazine, based in Melbourne Australia, published an article about what schools might look like in the…
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The death of George Floyd at the hands of white police officers has stunned and outraged the world. On Sunday afternoon, I watched footage of…
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Together, we face challenging and uncertain times. Fewer and fewer of us are able to avoid the impact of the spread of the COVID-19 virus.…
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Today is the 30th anniversary of the signing of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. 30 years ago, I was a young…
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When I speak to people in some parts of the world, they are very surprised to hear that I ride my bike to work. (Well,…
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At yesterday’s gathering of Award participants in Nairobi’s Langata High Security Women’s Prison, the keynote speech was delivered by an exceptional young inmate, who, for…
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I am so lucky. My job gives me extraordinary views of life. This morning I waved off an exceptional group of young people on their…
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