This year, we are re-visiting Jim Collins’ Good to Great principles that inspired this company. Although the book was written mainly about businesses, much of the principles are applicable to schools. Principle 5 'A culture of discipline: When the workforce is...
It was a busy start to the new term as a governor, ensuring policies were up to date, completing safeguarding audits and checking on the progress of the new mathematics action plan. Most of the work had to be done by Zoom and email. It seems harder to show empathy and...
Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion? Oliver Heaviside, Mathematician, physicist
'Even in winter it will be green in my heat' Chopin, composer ‘Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire’ - WB Yeats 'Social sector leaders pride themselves on "doing good" for the world, but to be of maximum service requires a ferocious...
Helena McVeigh has drawn on her thesis to write a book about the way that Ofsted has influenced the quality of teaching in primary schools. The book can be purchased from Amazon or UCL IOE press at UCL IOE Press.
