…paid more than £40,000 per year, with the odds being greater for men than women. So what factors are instilling this greater confidence and enabling careers to flourish? Family background…
Educating Rons and Ritas
…to Albert Einstein but that doesn’t need to be the case to make it true. So much that counts as education arises out of school. Bearing, cultural knowledge and being…
A special relationship
…new knowledge, skills and insight to the group that would otherwise be lacking. Our chairman, Sir Peter Lampl, recounts his experiences of sitting in on a Harvard admissions committee: they…
Learning what you earn
…composed of graduates, many people wonder whether a degree is really worth it anymore. Overall, the figures suggest that it is. A report released last year by the Department for…
Why schools can’t teach character
…of you who don’t follow every twist of the education debate, the idea that ‘character’ should be taught in schools has gained a lot of traction in recent years. And…
My lessons from America
…do this really well at Highbury Grove over the next year. Rituals, language and environments We were encouraged to explore the idea of culture using a Harvard framework. I liked…