I had the great privilege to spend Sunday with my friends at La Fiesta Escènica with the Circo Deros, currently touring South West Spain with their show Provoke in Venezia. It struck me what a fantastic education the circus is for the young performers there. It’s full of excitement, adventure and romance – but at…

Chalkface doesn’t do BETT, and as a result I missed hearing Jim Knight admit that the online SATS are never going to work would benefit from ‘evolution’ and are being binned declared non-statutory. The Department for Education and Skills is now working with the QCA to evolve the exam into a “formative test for ongoing…

At last! Someone’ in government has done something sensible.

You’ve probably seen the brouhaha about Apple’s newly-lauched iPhone. When you first look at it may be tempted to dismiss it as an over-priced, over-hyped MP3+phone combo, and wonder how long it will be before you get to confiscate one. But you will be wrong. It is the iPhone, not Windows Vista, not even the…

Alarmingly, there may be no sector of society [other than education] where technology has had less impact. Dan Kinnaman (via Doug). It’s absolutely true. In the business world I see paper, telephones, even offices becoming redundant as we find we can do things more efficiently online. In schools, I see classrooms largely unchanged since my…