Senior schools: single-sex or co-education?

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Our articles help you decide what is the right choice for you. Co-education in a mixed school or if you’d prefer to opt for single-sex and boys or girls only.

  • Boarding as preparation for twenty-first century life

    2020 really pushed us to our limits, and perhaps even beyond. When you were desperately trying to keep your business afloat or tearing your hair out at ever-changing social and travel restrictions, I wonder, what skills did you call upon? I suspect your strength of character and resilience were just as important as your intellectual knowledge. We all had to...

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    What does a bespoke education actually mean?

    Almost all independent schools proudly assert that they offer a ‘bespoke’ education. As the Principal of a girls’ boarding and day school, I am often asked what this means in practice.

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    The importance of a creative education

    One of the great strengths of a boarding school education has always been the range of experiences on offer to children and young people lucky enough to board. 

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  • Boarding Benefits

    The benefits of boys-only boarding

    I am not a single-sex zealot. That might seem odd coming from the Warden of Radley College, one of the great bastions of boys-only boarding, but it’s true. I get a little fed up with evangelical statements, backed up by supposedly incontrovertible statistics, that girls do better in this environment, boys in that. We all know we can find the statistics...

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    Promoting good mental health in boarding schools

    Times have changed across society – very much for the better – when it comes to talking about mental health issues. No serious employer is without a programme to encourage employees to be open about their experiences, and there are many great examples of individuals dealing successfully with challenges that would once have made working life almost impossible.

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  • Engineering

    Girls and engineering and other STEAM subjects

    UK plc has a major skills shortage. Engineering UK’s 2017 report The State of Engineering estimates an annual shortage of 20,000 skilled engineers, while other estimates range between 25,000 and 60,000. Given that engineering contributes 26 per cent of UK GDP nationally, this is a significant problem. More than 60 per cent of engineering employers say that a failure to...

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  • Love-physics

    Making sure girls learn to love physics at school

    Evidence from international studies, supported in part by research in the UK, has found that just a few key elements affect pupils’ attitudes to physics. It is up to us, the teaching profession, to ignite and develop a passion for physics in today’s learners.  The research concludes that the key to learning is how students see themselves in relation to...

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    What do we mean by a boarder’s progress and how do schools measure it?

    Progress is one of those words we see a lot in education – you’ll read it in your son or daughter’s reports, on school websites and in inspection reports, and there are even league tables for some schools based on average academic progress in selected GCSEs. But is this the only type of progress, and is it reasonable to attempt...

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