|
Featured
Editorials
|
June 2010
 School Security
Schools of all sizes face a number of security threats due to their large and easily accessible premises, transient populations and the high value goods often being kept on-site. Criminals are increasingly targeting these premises and so tough security measures are needed. Here James Kelly, Chief Executive of the British Security Industry Association (BSIA), explains the technologies that schools can adopt to better protect themselves against thieves and vandals.
|
|
June 2010
 Conference What's it all about?
Any association organising a regular annual conference must occasionally stop and ask itself: What exactly is it for?
There could be many answers. It is of course for like-minded people in an association which represents them and their shared interests to get together to, well, confer about those shared interests, and shared pasts and proposed futures and imminent threats and delightful opportunities. The chat between old friends, and the late snooker games with new ones, is a major reason to hold the conference at all.
|
|
May 2010
 Ashes to ashes
2010 will figure as a year of travel disruption, and bad balance sheets! Schools seem to have had a real run of bad luck in this respect, forced to close by swine flu and snow, and now facing potential disruption because teachers and students are stuck abroad, held earthbound by a cloud of volcanic ash emanating from Iceland. Is it fanciful to wonder what we have done to offend the Norse pantheon of gods?
|
|
March 2010
 Public benefit
Summer 2009 seems a long time ago now and especially the excitement around the publication of the Charity Commission's assessments of the public benefit provided by five charitable independent schools.
|
|
March 2010
 Practical school science
The unique aspect of science as a subject in school is the combination of rigorous intellectual challenge and motivating practical activity. As teachers it is up to us to ensure that we do the best by our subject and our students so that their school lessons echo the science done in the “real world"
|
|
Jan 2010
 Widening the path
All pupils at boarding schools are posh.
Not true.
Now more than ever, boarding schools are likely to have a thoroughly mixed population, ranging from the children of titled families or international entrepreneurs to children from the most modest of homes....
|
|
|
|
