Hot on the heels of my blog earlier this week (Schools must publish online… from September 2012) DfE have released an interesting update to their web pages “to help headteachers, principals and governors plan ahead, prepare for and implement changes that will take place during this academic
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The number of “cloud based” file storage providers is increasing all the time. This week, Google has finally entered this busy space with Google Drive, though it is not available to all Google users yet. So, what is the relevance of this in education, and when choosing
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Changes to schools information regulations If you look carefully on the DfE website – you will need to go to the Home Page, Schools, Tools and initiatives, Cutting burdens and bureaucracy and then scroll through 11 pages (if you click here it is a little easier) you
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School Leadership and school improvement With the demise of LA support services, local leadership networks,  budgetary constraints and financial pressures who can we turn to and trust to extend and advance our thinking? Over the last few years’ collaboration, networking, shared ideas and co-operative practice have dominated
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Three years on from the beginning of the parental engagement project we have worked extensively with a range of schools in very different contexts and we can say categorically that using ICT to support parental engagement really does make a difference. Real learning partnerships have developed between
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When the Labour government was elected in 1997, they used the slogan “Education, education, education”. And one of their first policy documents was “Connecting the Learning Society“, a bold proposal which called for every school, college, university and library to be connected to the Internet by 2002,
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