The phrase that I come across most often in this area is ‘Global Citizenship’ and it is something that I believe in unequivocally – in fact, as far as I’m concerned, it’s the single most important thing that an education system does for its young people.

I agree that there is a huge (and unhelpful) range of explanations and titles for what it…[Read more]

I have read some of the academic material she’s written and have never really thought it to be anything particularly ground-breaking, but that’s just my opinion – my issue is more with the gimmickry that surrounds so much of the education debate (but that’s a different discussion to follow a different post on a different day).

The thing is though, a lot of these issues are just semantics. Panicking about the word ‘ability’, for example, is both ridiculous and entirely counter-productive, as this sort of thing – alongside the obsession with catchy, please-buy-my-book phrases like ‘Growth Mindset’ – ends up distracting from the very real issues that exist (such as an…[Read more]

There is so much of this with which I profoundly disagree.

“When you talk about a “mixed ability” group what are you really saying? That some of them are more “able” than others? This language implies that those “low ability” students you have are actually less able to improve.” – This is quite simply untrue; the fact that one pupil is less abl…[Read more]