This is definitely the best book I have read on Education in the last decade. And it’s not an education book per se: ‘The Happiness Hypothesis’. Jonathan Haidt introduces his readers to the world of positive psychology and it is this body of ideas that we should be using to help us design the schools of […]
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I have called this, the Age of the Teacher because there has never been a better time to enter the profession. That fact is not recognised by many commentators. It’s always nice to be name-checked – thank you, Phil and Conor for the credit you gave me for the UK’s uplift in teacher recruitment – but
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My new piece, co-written with my friends at the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA) in the UK, takes a look at the rapidly expanding world of international schools. Long gone are the days when a few embassy schools sought to provide a reassuring education to local ex-pats with a few locals hanging on. Several
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Talking to your children each night at mealtimes boosts their performance at school. In several countries, governments try to boost their schools’ results by giving advice to parents on what to read and how to encourage their child’s reading. This is an example from the UK “Words for Life” project: www.wordsforlife.org.uk. And here is a news
It is rare to find families at home doing science experiments together but it is fabulous when you see it in action. It is fun for all and you can get a good discussion going about science and about science at school. Take a look at this excellent site, from Scientific American: www.scientificamerican.com/education/bring-science-home/ It will
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This is an interesting website for picking up insights into individual international schools. It is a subscription service that I find handy: www.internationalschoolsreview.com Rather too many entries are from moaning teachers and it’s biased heavily against school owners and leaders but, on balance, the international community of schools needs a service like this to bring greater
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School marketing in Dubai has changed quite significantly in the past two years. In today’s competitive climate, a senior leadership team in Dubai needs to know the impact of SEO & SEM, paid per click vs paid per impressions, social listening and the purpose of a strong content strategy. In years past, schools in Dubai
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One of the phenomena that you come across in international education is the ambitious family. I don’t mean ambitious just for themselves, I mean ambitious for their own children and for the community. Many private international schools have been started by these families. In the UAE, there is a strong group of them, many Indian
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