Category: Education Today

Responding to news and events about the current state of education in the UK.

A trip to the Deep South

Posted on 26 April 2012, under Education Today
Haileybury's History Middles on tour in the USA.

I have recently returned from taking a group of 25 Middles History pupils to the Southern States of America; to Georgia and Alabama, to be precise. The purpose of the trip was to gain a deeper understanding of the Civil Rights Movement, which we study at IGCSE, as well as to expose the pupils (and [...]

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By Matt Radley with no comments

Psychology – that sounds really interesting, but what is it?

Posted on 28 February 2012, under Education Today

Psychologists have been asked this question ever since Wilhelm Wundt opened his first experimental psychology lab in 1879 Leipzig. Here’s my attempt to answer it… In short, modern psychology is the study of human behaviour and how the mind works, and it believes that this must be examined using the same hypothesis testing techniques as [...]

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By Jonathan Lloyd with no comments

Visiting the Battlefields

Posted on 17 February 2012, under Education Today
The village of Paschendale before and after the fighting.

It is now around four weeks until we take the Removes from Haileybury out to the Battlefields of Northern France and Belgium. It is such a common school trip as to almost be a cliché, but does this mean that it is not worthwhile? There is certainly a danger that, without careful planning, such a trip can become [...]

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By Matt Radley with no comments

Style v substance v real world

Posted on 7 February 2012, under Education Today

Almost all politicians, perhaps apart from Gordon Brown, have been accused of emphasising style over substance. Oddly enough, the better the hair of the politician, the more they are accused of a lack of substance. That may be bad news for Mitt Romney, but it does make me think about what debating should be focused [...]

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By Peter Blair with no comments

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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By Simon Smith with no comments