Why we need a digital strategy Each school, academy and Trust should have a visible digital strategy aligned to the organisation’s vision and its development plan. Before the pandemic the best schools were leveraging technology to enhance and improve educational outcomes. But too many others were buying technology with too little connection to their wider educational strategy, often wasting money, ...

Why we need to teach sustainability in construction Meeting the challenges of climate change and decarbonisation is critical to every country in the world right now. In the UK, our buildings account for 40% of CO2 emissions and it's imperative that we invest in zero-carbon homes and update the country’s 27 million homes to be efficient and ecological. The government agrees. Their ‘Build Back Bette ...

It's 2032. We are looking back, ten years to be exact, on the most interesting years education has ever known. That was the time when media literacy became increasingly higher on the agenda: - Apps like TikTok and Discord were leading the way for the students of the time; - Day in and day out arguments that started via the online world were fought out physically in the classroom. Teachers didn't k ...

Jane Downes explores the future of assessment taking into account learnings from lockdown.