Archive for May, 2010

Advertise Jobs in Independent Schools

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The Independent Schools Council currently represents 1,260 independent schools, educating more than 510,000 children. The Job Zone is an increasingly popular source for registered ISC schools to advertise their teaching and non-teaching jobs; with around 30,000 page…

Crucial nuances to the university admissions debate

Yesterday’s report by Sir Martin Harris at the Office for Fair Access (Offa) on widening university access made for interesting reading. While it was disappointing to see that the wealthiest pupils are seven times likelier than the poorest to attend…

New man, new department and some walk-outs across the water

Given how widely-expected the appointment of Michael Gove as schools secretary was, relatively little was made of it in the press (certainly in comparison to some of the other, more unlikely Cabinet posts allocated). What captured the imagination of the…

Food for the Soul: Music, Art and Drama in the Independent Sector

The best schools foster the development of the whole child: academic achievement has its place, but in the busy and sometimes unforgiving 21st Century world we inhabit, there is also an important place for the social, spiritual (in its broadest…

Teacher Taster Days in independent schools

If you are a teacher in training, or interested in working in an independent school, then Teacher Taster Days will offer a valuable insight to what it’s like teaching in the independent sector.

What are Teacher Taster Days?…

After the election

The British electorate has spoken. But what have we said? If you believe many commentators it is that we want a hung parliament with a coalition or minority government. Whatever the merits of that argument the fact is that no…