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Building confidence is a question of capitals

Richard Lockyer | Jun 27, 2020

The Government is working hard to reassure us that schools have been made safe for lessons to restart, but the lengths our school leaders have had to go to is putting them under unprecedented levels of pressure. Schools are drawing on the moral capitalthey have built up within their community to convince their students to…

Classroom doors are opening, slowly

Richard Lockyer | Jun 21, 2020

Each of the countries we cover in our weekly updates is at a different stage in its response to the Coronavirus outbreak. For all of them, the situation is revised on an almost daily basis, and to compare them offers a fascinating insight to how we are emerging from lockdown around the world. Global update…

The numbers tell us a lot about the state we are in

Richard Lockyer | Jun 18, 2020

The statistics are being rolled out that reveal the true extent of the impact of the past few months’ lockdown measures, and they make for uncomfortable reading. The lockdown The past two weeks have proved stimulating for us statistical geeks, with a deluge of findings about the current state of British education during the lockdown…

We need a clear way through these restrictions

Richard Lockyer | Jun 13, 2020

We face an unprecedented level of intervention by governments into the safe running of our schools moving out of the pandemic, but practical solutions remain thin on the ground. In our experience, the current level of intervention by governments in the day-to-day running of their schools in all of the countries we report on is…

School, executive and system leadership: the real ‘middle tier’

Mona Bhatti | Jun 9, 2020

We are have entered a new era of school leadership, with the pandemic placing unique demands upon us and requiring us to adapt our teaching methods. The question now is whether teaching practices will ever return to normal. Here Professor Peter Matthews examines the three other phases that have resulted in equally seismic shifts in…

What price will we pay for further delays to schooling?

Mona Bhatti | Jun 1, 2020

A phased return to school will ultimately cost many students further precious time away from the classroom – a point that is causing considerable division among concerned parties. Global Update England Today,  June 1, 2020 is a critical day for English primary schools with Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 students due to return under…

How do we find a safe route back to the classroom?

Mona Bhatti | May 29, 2020

As we search for evidence of a safe return to a schooling normality, we are in danger of finding ourselves in a catch-22 situation, with the research we rely so heavily upon to guide us having dried up as the lockdown continues. Here, our Chair Professor Sir George Berwick, explores the three areas of knowledge…

As preparations are made for a return to school …

Mona Bhatti | May 15, 2020

As preparations are made for a return to school, elementary pupils appear to have been designated as the first wave, amid social distancing policies and union calls for safety first. Don’t even mention risk assessments. Professor Sir George Berwick, OLEVI Chair gives this week’s Global Update Global Update England On last Sunday evening The Prime…

The Growth of The London West Hub and OLEVI DOC

Mona Bhatti | May 14, 2020

A culture of co-operation lies at the heart of the Challenge Partners hubs, the success of which has been proven time and time again. Back at the beginning, Professor Sir George Berwick, OLEVI Chair,  recalls that they started with only six schools across London, each committed to sharing the secrets of its success. Here we…

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