Who needs exams?
Last week the writer and broadcaster Simon Jenkins wrote an opinion piece in The Guardian under the title, ‘If we can do without GCSEs and university exams now, why go…
Leadership lessons from the Covid-19 crisis
As India, enters its 54th day of lockdown, comparing notes with my friends there makes it clear how much a leader can determine the response to a situation. A School…
Locker-room chat; a misfortune of privilege
The response to the 'bois locker-room' chat that was shared, reported and is now being followed up by the school, the police and the parents of those involved, as both…
Maximising learning through well-designed classrooms; what renovating 25 classrooms taught me about working with vendors.
Over the years I must have seen hundreds of classrooms, everything from wood and mud buildings that house 80-plus students in rural western Kenya to 100sqm teaching laboratories for classes…