Posts Tagged with Education

East, west, home’s best

A dear friend and colleague once observed that the contribution we made to the residential courses that used to be produced by Vitae, the non-profit researcher development organisation, felt a bit like being a part of … Continue reading

Geography over Time

As someone with a broad range of interests and precious little depth, I have a bookshelf and a concentration span to match. A quick check online reveals that since signing up to Amazon in 2001, … Continue reading

Agent Provocateur

Even before the birth of our first child, my wife and I had agreed that gender stereotyping was something we wanted to actively resist and our position has not changed since. Time may prove our … Continue reading

Values and Aspirations

For his first few years at nursery and school, my son, when asked what his daddy did for work, would proudly say that he “wears a watch.” He had noticed from an early age that … Continue reading

Special Measures

Recently one of our local schools has been put into ‘Special Measures’ by Ofsted for a whole host of reasons that are carefully laid out in a detailed report. Being a parent of two young children, one of whom … Continue reading