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G7 leaders pledge support to new gender equality initiative in education

The G7 leaders have pledged support to new gender equality initiatives in education as announced on August 28th 2019 by Global Partnership for Education. This is great news in the light of many…

A Kellet thank you…

Following our recent delivery of Book Fest celebrations at The Kellet School in Hong Kong, the school have just published a short film thanking contributors to the Annual Fund activities across the academic…

Greggs and the Environment

The Greggs Foundation environmental grants programme is now open for applications. The fund is especially interested this year in applications from schools, but your project must meet the Foundation criteria for applications. Individual…

Book Fest Hong Kong 2016

Sue Martin and the Books go Walkabout team are in Hong Kong this week. (May 2016) Working in partnership with The Kellett School, with generous funding from the school Annual Fund, Sue and…

Inequality in Education,
Turning the Tide

‘The Future of Education in England’ an event at Royal Society for the Arts, London, was held on October 5th 2015 by the Inequality in Education Team. Inequality in Education…turning the tide (IETT)…

Digital Knowledge – how smart are you?

Digital Knowledge – 6 year olds are as smart as 45 year old adults, with a peak for digital understanding at 14 – 15 years! (Ofcom findings). In a report published by Ofcom,…

The web and education – how we think about information

Michael Wesch of Kansas State University produces a continuous stream of films and concept refreshing ideas about information, education and the cultural power of the web. The short film below offers the viewer…

A surfeit of information?

Below is a short film of a recent TED programme talk by a teacher – Diana Laufenberg. It has a number of different messages. A mapping of the transition from a knowledge poor…

The Schools System and
the Draft Structural Reform Plan

Somewhere, in my past I remember being told ‘more haste less speed.’ The Draft Structural Reform Plan is in plenty of haste. Built into that, is the feeling that there is no time…