Managers ruining the system

May 7, 2009 · Filed Under Business, Costs, Partnerships, Schools · Comment 

There are plenty of people who could take the blame for the problems associated with education the prime candidates being the government, teachers, parents and of course pupils. However, are any of these really to blame or is there somebody else.
It seems that over the past ten years or so the rise of the faceless [...]

Did school swap work?

January 23, 2009 · Filed Under College, Costs, Pupils, Schools · Comment 

The other day the BBC2 programme Newsnight did a social experiment to see how pupils from an average secondary school got on when they went to top public school Wellington College, the idea was to try and make these kids realise that there is more to life.
However, do these schemes ever make any difference; there [...]