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My lessons from America

…Washington, I’ve got a wealth of material and I’ve had the luxury of some flying time to think about the key ideas I’m taking home. An overarching take-away is the…

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Coding + Creativity = Careers?

…programming languages to solve computational problems; to design, use and evaluate computational abstractions that model the state and behaviour of real-world problems and physical systems; and how instructions are stored…

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Academic Assets

…Most UK university endowment funds fail to grow as US funds increase by a quarter in a decade https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/uk-university-endowment-funds-fail-grow-us-funds-increase-quarter-decade-sutton-trust-research/ Conor Ryan: Endowments could help postgraduate students https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/endowments-help-postgraduate-students/ 1 Key Findings…

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Fairer school admissions – could you be the change?

…catchment area. Often, the best schools are oversubscribed, making the “oversubscription criteria” a particularly pivotal element in shaping their future cohorts. Currently the two most common criteria used by secondary…