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- Affordable and Worth Affording
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- The Great Reset
- Confidence in the Future of Independent Education
- What Exactly is a Bursary? Can it Help You Find the Right School for Your Child?
- School Fundraising is About Moral Purpose, Not Gold Bathroom Fittings
- My 19th Secretary of State and Why That Matters
- Bursaries: ‘If your adverts don’t reach the right people, they are to no avail’
- Bursaries are not about virtue signalling or the passing on of privilege
- What is School For?
- Boys Should Build Careers in Nursing, Adult Social Care and Primary Schools
- A Call to Properly Fund Young People’s Mental Health Service
- The Future for Independent Schools
- The Language of Elections
- Let’s Nationalise the Examination Industry!
- The Importance of Sharing Sports Facilities
- What is the Purpose of Higher Education?
- AI is Already Here!
- Do Exams Cause Stress?
- Fair Access to University
- Make Exam Results Clearer
- School’s National Recognition is Good for the Town
- Seeking Better Role Models for Young People
- Money to help a child find their passion?
- The Arts and Creativity Have Never Been So Important
- The ‘Problem’ With Boys
- Let’s Celebrate All Exam Success
- Promoting Modern Foreign Languages
- Encouraging Social Mobility
- Recruiting, Retaining and Celebrating Teachers
- What is it to be a Good Man?
- Is the Curriculum too Narrow?
- The Virtuous Circle of Lower School Fees
- Unconditional Offers
- Research in Education
- First, just read this ..
- The Importance of Reading
- language please
- Some stability please
- The Health of our Children
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![Making a choice for your child’s education is one of the big decisions for any parent. For many in the catchment area of Bolton School, the option of looking at […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/BoltonSchool-1c-rectangle-115x115.jpg "Affordable and Worth Affording")
Affordable and Worth Affording
Posted on August 30, 2024 | No CommentsMaking a choice for your child’s education is one of the big decisions for any parent. For many in the catchment area of Bolton School, the option of looking at […] -
![There is as sharp a focus on the landscape of education as there has ever been. The structural systems in which our children are educated for life are under immense […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_7978-115x115.jpg "Confidence in the Future of Independent Education")
Confidence in the Future of Independent Education
Posted on September 1, 2023 | No CommentsThere is as sharp a focus on the landscape of education as there has ever been. The structural systems in which our children are educated for life are under immense […] -
![The false dichotomy between fee paying and state schools is a modern and unhelpful divide. For nearly 80 years both have been part of the educational landscape and before that, […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_2366-cr-115x115.jpg "What Exactly is a Bursary? Can it Help You Find the Right School for Your Child?")
What Exactly is a Bursary? Can it Help You Find the Right School for Your Child?
Posted on January 15, 2023 | No CommentsThe false dichotomy between fee paying and state schools is a modern and unhelpful divide. For nearly 80 years both have been part of the educational landscape and before that, […] -
Bursaries: ‘If your adverts don’t reach the right people, they are to no avail’
Posted on October 18, 2021 | No CommentsSchools must ensure they are reaching the right people and operating a fair selection process when it comes to bursaries, writes Philip Britton. -
![The last days of October and we finally have our last GCSE result for Summer 2019. Do you remember results day back in August? When the pupils got their exam […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/KKP-021546_sm-115x115.jpg "Let’s Nationalise the Examination Industry!")
Let’s Nationalise the Examination Industry!
Posted on November 6, 2019 | No CommentsThe last days of October and we finally have our last GCSE result for Summer 2019. Do you remember results day back in August? When the pupils got their exam […] -
What is the Purpose of Higher Education?
Posted on July 21, 2019 | No CommentsWhere is learning going? -
![It was suggested to me recently that it was perfectly fair that students from Bolton School should have a harder time (with higher offers) getting into University than less “privileged” […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/university-access-115x115.jpg "Fair Access to University")
Fair Access to University
Posted on April 29, 2019 | No CommentsIt was suggested to me recently that it was perfectly fair that students from Bolton School should have a harder time (with higher offers) getting into University than less “privileged” […] -
![It is almost certainly the case, following analysis of data released by OFQUAL, the exams regulator, that around 1 in 4 grades awarded in GCSE and A level examinations is […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/kkp-4-000229-1-115x115.jpg "Make Exam Results Clearer")
Make Exam Results Clearer
Posted on March 13, 2019 | No CommentsIt is almost certainly the case, following analysis of data released by OFQUAL, the exams regulator, that around 1 in 4 grades awarded in GCSE and A level examinations is […] -
![In his budget speech last week, the Chancellor allocated funding for ‘those little extras’ in school that would make a difference. The sum being spoken of has been interpreted as […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/YMotY-2017-115x115.jpg "Money to help a child find their passion?")
Money to help a child find their passion?
Posted on November 8, 2018 | No CommentsIn his budget speech last week, the Chancellor allocated funding for ‘those little extras’ in school that would make a difference. The sum being spoken of has been interpreted as […] -
![Summer Exam results have brought the usual range of pupils jumping for joy in staged photos for the press. But have we rather lost the art of real celebration and […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/KKP-4-000654-1-115x115.jpg "Let’s Celebrate All Exam Success")
Let’s Celebrate All Exam Success
Posted on September 5, 2018 | No CommentsSummer Exam results have brought the usual range of pupils jumping for joy in staged photos for the press. But have we rather lost the art of real celebration and […] -
![This week the Education Secretary has spoken about social mobility, focusing on some interesting areas which he thinks will make a difference. The first, and most reported, is addressing the […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/stock-photo-39925410-middle-school-115x115.jpg "Encouraging Social Mobility")
Encouraging Social Mobility
Posted on July 25, 2018 | No CommentsThis week the Education Secretary has spoken about social mobility, focusing on some interesting areas which he thinks will make a difference. The first, and most reported, is addressing the […] -
![As we near the end of term there have been the usual events to mark the service of those colleagues moving on from the school at the end of the […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Staff-Netall-GD-Charity-Fundraiser-007-115x115.jpg "Recruiting, Retaining and Celebrating Teachers")
Recruiting, Retaining and Celebrating Teachers
Posted on July 11, 2018 | No CommentsAs we near the end of term there have been the usual events to mark the service of those colleagues moving on from the school at the end of the […] -
![Is the curriculum of our schools too narrow? A great deal has been written about how performance measures such as progress 8 and some other league tables have led to […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DUAdS5tXcAAN4Cm-115x115.jpg "Is the Curriculum too Narrow?")
Is the Curriculum too Narrow?
Posted on May 30, 2018 | No CommentsIs the curriculum of our schools too narrow? A great deal has been written about how performance measures such as progress 8 and some other league tables have led to […] -
![Once again the question of unconditional offers for University places is a public debate. The usual system is to offer a place based on achieving some A level grades. An […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/university.jpg "Unconditional Offers")
Unconditional Offers
Posted on April 6, 2018 | No CommentsOnce again the question of unconditional offers for University places is a public debate. The usual system is to offer a place based on achieving some A level grades. An […] -
It’s Time for a Reset on Politicians’ Nonsensical Attitudes Toward Independent Schools
Posted on March 30, 2015 | No CommentsIndependent schools are absolutely part of the community, says one leading Headmaster. Philip Britton, Head of Bolton School, Boys’ Division, says there is no divide in the North… -
![In this third glimpse into the future in education, based on developing the trends of what has happened in the past decades, I look at the impact of technology. Obviously, […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0382-0-115x110.jpg "Part 3: IT comes of age")
Part 3: IT comes of age
Posted on January 3, 2015 | 1 CommentIn this third glimpse into the future in education, based on developing the trends of what has happened in the past decades, I look at the impact of technology. Obviously, […] -
![The Bolton School SPACE programme is now a term old and it is possible to reflect both on what has happened and the rationale for the programme beginning. First, the […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/shuttle-115x115.jpg "Bolton School in SPACE")
Bolton School in SPACE
Posted on December 30, 2013 | No CommentsThe Bolton School SPACE programme is now a term old and it is possible to reflect both on what has happened and the rationale for the programme beginning. First, the […] -
![There has been a torrent of educational reform in the last few months û from A levels being put up for adoption by the Universities (who appear not to want […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/images-115x115.jpg "No exams at 16")
No exams at 16
Posted on December 12, 2012 | 1 CommentThere has been a torrent of educational reform in the last few months û from A levels being put up for adoption by the Universities (who appear not to want […] -
![I KEEP six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. The Elephant’s Child by Rudyard […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/100-Years-Flags-002a-115x115.jpg "So just why do we do exams?")
So just why do we do exams?
Posted on July 1, 2012 | No CommentsI KEEP six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. The Elephant’s Child by Rudyard […] -
![Great schools like Bolton are built on charitable giving. Without doubt the best news this week has been the Government back tracking on the changes for Charitable giving suggested in […]](https://head.boltonschool.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/100-Years-of-flags-at-Bolton-School-033a-115x115.jpg "Charitable Giving")
Charitable Giving
Posted on June 8, 2012 | No CommentsGreat schools like Bolton are built on charitable giving. Without doubt the best news this week has been the Government back tracking on the changes for Charitable giving suggested in […]