Marwan Mikdadi, Deputy Head of Bancroft’s School in north east London, looks at the impact of new reforms and considers how students, schools, universities and exam boards will react.

John Southworth, Principal of MPW London, explains why disappointing GCSEs need not mean disappointing A levels.

Pocklington School is to offer BTEC Level 3 National Diplomas in Sport and Digital Publishing to its Sixth Form students, as part of its commitment to offering a breadth of opportunity in its curriculum.

Headteacher, speaker and author Andrew Hammond examines what we mean by character education, and how creating the right learning environment will have lasting benefits for students.

For many children, learning a modern language is not a lesson they are challenged with until they reach secondary school. But at Barrow Hills School, an independent co-educational prep school for children aged 2 to 13, being exposed to the words and sounds associated with a new language begins as early as the nursery years.

Children can thrive in independent schools because of the importance placed on everything that happens in addition to carefully orchestrated lessons, writes Catherine Ford, Head of Moreton First prep school in Shropshire.