A Balkan Journey: Walking through Europe's forgotten region

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Introduction to our range of programmes and services to support schools facing the toughest challenges. As well as socially, comparison and competition are baked into learning. Students are told from an early age that the game is to beat others on a bell curve in the arms race of exam grades and university places. Human worth is based a singular sense of individual achievement. How did children feel who were not in the social media output or press releases of schools on GCSE and A-Level results day because their grades were not deemed worthy? The clerics find Hober, who is dying from starvation. He says that he has been inside The Vault for two whole days now. Seldon, Anthony (2000). Public & Private Education: The Divide Must End. The Social Market Foundation. ISBN 1874097941. Adam has also played a full part in Derwent College life, including twice organising a Derwent team to compete in the Tough Guy Competition – a 15km assault course and cross-country run. In addition, he was shortlisted for The Guardian student columnist of the year for his work with Nouse and is involved in Lauriston Lights, a charity which is raising children’s aspirations in Newham through a summer programme delivered by University volunteers.

We should be unapologetically ambitious for students, not just for their academic outcomes but who they are as people. A common refrain I see or hear among teachers is how levels of disrespect have increased. Sometimes schools can be bereft of basic civility. Rather than constantly reacting to behaviour, more could be done to upstream the issue, to consider how to get students to behave in the long-term, to nurture virtues as moral citizens beyond the school gates. Hari has summoned Hober Mallow and the other guests to help him prevent a war from happening. He wants Brother Constant and Poly to head to Trantor on a diplomatic relations mission. Hari wants them to sell the idea of the Foundation to them, to win them over and delay the war. Additionally, we’re asking staff to display posters on their door, inspired by the anti-bullying alliance, pledging to do something to help prevent bullying behaviour. In non-COVID times, we normally mark this week with an ‘acts of kindness’ board in our library, where students can select a random act of kindness with the aim of making someone’s day.Adam, from Brighton, who will graduate with a degree in History, says: “In our first year at York, Harry and I went to a number of talks at the University, but found some were poorly attended and not well-advertised, and often the speakers were not of a high calibre.

Adam, who is going to study towards a Masters degree in Political Theory at the London School of Economics, is leaving the York Union in the hands of a new committee and is confident it will continue to thrive. Wellington College to poll parents on plan to drop GCSEs in favour of Baccalaureate". The Daily Telegraph. London. 16 December 2008 . Retrieved 5 September 2013. Seldon, Anthony (2005). The Blair Effect, 2001-5. Cambridge University Press. p.496. ISBN 0521678609. Schools serving more deprived families often have the additional, noble purpose of social mobility: supporting students to get grades so they can advance in society through university and onto jobs in a way their parents might not have. Yet schools cannot do this alone. A recent report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies showed that despite improved schools, there has been virtually no change in the gap between children on free school meals and their peers in the last 20 years. Schools cannot generate social mobility alone. Other factors matter for reducing inequality, such as government investment in public services, the welfare state and other redistributive polices. Britain and the US do particularly poorly for social mobility: there’s been no progress since 1954 in getting working class children into the top US universities. A school is not being honest if it claims that it alone can help students climb up the meritocratic ladder. Education qualifications are not enough: according to Dr Sam Friedman, a working-class student with a 1st is less likely to get a white-collar job than an economically privileged student with a 2:2 from the same university.

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In March 2023, he replaced Emma Pattison as head master of Epsom College, following her murder. [17] History, politics and other writing [ edit ] He is the deputy chair and instigator of the Times Education Commission, former chair of the Comment Awards, president of the International Positive Education Network (IPEN), chair of the National Archives Trust and he was the originator of the Via Sacra/Western Front Way Walk. Though we champion these themed weeks, we believe kindness should be practiced throughout the whole year – not just a specific moment in time. Kindness and gratitude have such a powerful impact on a school’s culture. They facilitate members of the community - whether students, teachers or support staff - to feel valued, which in turn cements togetherness and commitment to the school, and the people within it.