Author: Simon Smith

Leading the global outlook

Posted on 8 December 2011, under Education Today

I was both dismayed and delighted to read the story on the BBC website this morning (8 December 2011) which reports that “business leaders are warning that students in the UK are lagging behind in developing an international outlook needed for a globalised economy” and that the British Council survey suggests that “employers are struggling [...]

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The value of reading

Posted on 1 December 2011, under Broadening Horizons

There can be few more enjoyable moments amid the hectic pace of boarding school life than walking the corridor outside the Removes and Middles dorms, in my case in Lawrence House, watching the pupils read before lights out. After a busy day of lessons, sport, activities and the inevitable social media socialising and electronic gaming [...]

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King Henry VIII and the New College of the Humanities

Posted on 28 November 2011, under Broadening Horizons

One of the joys of working at a school like Haileybury is that we are able to attract some outstanding subject specialists from the world of academia. Last Thursday we had the pleasure of welcoming Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, historian, author and broadcaster who specialises in 16th century Tudor history. For an hour, the Master, Second [...]

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Leaders as learners and learners as leaders

Posted on 21 November 2011, under Looking To The Future

Last month I was fortunate enough to attend, on behalf of the Master, the biannual IB World Heads Conference in Singapore. It was an extraordinary experience. 450 other Heads from 5 continents, or in IB speak 3 Regions, gathered at the United World College South East Asia; a remarkable campus only 10 weeks old and [...]

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