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Archive for July, 2010
Visitors spoiled for choice at first Festival of Education
Posted on July 8th, 2010 by AndrewHamilton, under NewsWellington College hosted the inaugural Sunday Times Festival of Education last weekend, an event the College’s master Anthony Seldon hopes will one day become as celebrated as the literary equivalents of Hay or Edinburgh. The College certainly did its utmost…
Science teaching at prep schools
Posted on July 7th, 2010 by Rudi Eliott Lockhart, under Early Years Foundation Stage - Private Schools, News, Prep Schools, Private Schools, School Curriculum - Private SchoolsToday’s publication of the latest of The Royal Society’s ‘State of the Nation’ reports makes for interesting reading. The report casts light on the teaching of Science and Maths between the ages of 5 and 14, and draws attention…
The International Baccalaureate across the pond
Posted on July 6th, 2010 by Kristen DiLemmo, under News, PoliticsWhen the International School of Geneva set out to establish an educational programme in the 1960s, it was an American social studies teacher, Robert Leach, who emerged as the original promoter of the International Baccalaureate (IB). The effort to…