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Mary Wakefield
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Tim Wigmore
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Ed Oldfield
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Ross Clark
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IB or not IB?
The International Baccalaureate is less popular than it
was, says Tim Wigmore, but it still has its merits
ony Blair saw in the International Baccalaureate a qualification that would equip
Britains most talented schoolchildren for
the demands the global race, if you will
of the 21st century. In 2006, he made a
speech trumpeting the IBs virtues, saying, There should
be at least one sixth-form college or school in every local
authority offering students the choice of the IB.
The mood of the times was encapsulated by leading
independent school Kings College Wimbledon obliging
all sixth-formers from the 2007 intake onwards to do the
IB. Andrew Halls, the current headmaster of Kings College, explains how the decision came about. There was
a feeling that IB was an exciting exam that was seeing a
growing constituency in the UK. This largely stemmed
from concerns over the qualities of A-levels: they had
gone fully modular; every year we saw the percentage
of A grades rise.
So Kings Colleges decision to reintroduce A-levels
from September 2013 is revealing. Halls explains that
improvements in A-levels the introduction of the A*
grade, which the most selective universities have liked;
that grade inflation certainly has stopped; and, above
all, the much greater emphasis on rigour triggered
the move. While he says that there is no school pressure
to do A-level or to do IB, he explains that we think that
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THE UNIVERSITY OF
BUCKINGHAM
sional worlds. So some courses at school would be content-heavy, some more practical or skill-based, but all
focused upon encouraging students to think creatively.
Instead of schools being required to teach students how
to pass exams, time would be better employed teaching students what they need to know and how to use that knowledge, making exams and assessments fit for purpose.
Testing inhibits the creative processes of young minds
and uses up far too much time at school and university. In
the past, those of us privileged to be educated at the taxpayers expense knew that we would get a job if we got a
degree. But this is manifestly not the case today and the
processes of teaching and learning at school and university need an even more radical overhaul than the self-styled
radical Secretary of State for Education envisages.
It is time for Mr Gove to sit down with a blank sheet
of paper with schools, universities and professional leaders and some young people too to plan a system that
measures all kinds of intellectual ability, including the creative, ensuring the acquisition of the essential knowledge
and skills that students need in these challenging times.
If my performance at O-level had been a true indicator of my abilities, I dont suppose that Id be doing what
I do today and, I hope, reasonably successfully, after 20
years as a headmaster.
We now need a proper review of school assessment,
unhindered by the political timescales imposed by general elections, because the quick fix hardly ever works.
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smallest with around 1,700 students. Honours degrees are achieved in two intensive years of study. We keep class sizes
small, with a student: academic staff ratio of 10:1 and the Oxbridge style tutorial groups are often personalised
and exhilarating.
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here is just one thing missing from the mountain of data put before parents as they choose
their childrens schools: a league table of
league tables. Just how is one supposed to
select a school for little Algernon and Fenella when it is so hard to tell which of the many league
tables published in the press is the best-performing and
which are the stragglers?
As if there were not already
One league tables
enough league tables, the Department for Education muddied the
top school is another
waters even further in January by
ones also-ran
publishing its new preferred measure of how schools perform at A-level: the percentage of pupils who achieve AAB or better
in at least three facilitating subjects. It would have been
a little less confusing if the department explained clearly
on its website what it meant by a facilitating subject. It
turns out that this is a list of subjects preferred by the
Russell Group of Universities, and includes Maths, Further Maths, English, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geography, History and Languages (ancient and modern).
Some might complain about the exclusion of certain
subjects like economics, but lets pass on that.
One thing is for sure: school league tables are not
all the same. They may purport to show the same thing
ranking schools according to their exam results
but when you actually start to study them you realise
that they are measuring slightly different things in each
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case, while some are far more complete than others. One
league tables top school is another ones also-ran. All
league tables have their strengths and all have their own
quirks. They are all good in their own way, but for the
benefit of people who might be thinking of looking up
a league table, I have done my best to produce a league
table of them. Just to demonstrate the problem, these
are the top five independent schools for A-level results
in 2012, through the eyes of various league tables:
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1. Westminster, 2. Magdalen College School,
3. St Pauls School, 4. St Pauls Girls,
5. Concord College, Shropshire
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1. Sevenoaks School, 2. Kings College School
3. Lady Eleanor Holles, 4. St Swithuns School
5. Loughborough High School
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1. Cardiff Sixth-Form College, 2. Wycombe Abbey
3. St Pauls Girls, 4. St Pauls School, 5. Westminster
I ought just to note that the FT, BBC and Daily Telegraph (January) league tables combine the results of
independent schools with state schools, so for the purposes of comparison I have removed the state schools
which appear in their lists. But otherwise, the league
tables are supposedly measuring the same thing, so why
do they pick out such completely different schools as
their top performers? The FT league table claims to
include every independent school which enters at least
20 students for an average of at least two A-levels. It
then produces its own points score based on points per
candidate and points per exam entry. But this includes
core subjects only, as defined by the University of Cambridge. It would be helpful if it went on to state what is
and what is not a core subject. It isnt even easy to find
out what is and what is not a core subject on the Cambridge University website, but I think we can assume it
excludes surfing studies.
The Daily Telegraph, in common with the Times,
publishes a league table assembled by the Independent Schools Council (ISC) every September. There
is one obvious fault here: it only includes results in
schools which are members of the ISC, about twothirds of independent schools. But it also excludes several well-known schools such as Eton and Westminster
which choose not to supply their A-level results to the
ISC. The results used are very simple: they are the percentage of A-level entries which resulted in the award
of grade A or A*.
The BBC uses a different measure: the number of
points per pupil at A and AS level. Again, it would be
helpful if the BBC website explained what exactly these
points mean. But on the assumption that the league
table uses the standard point scores used by the Department for Education, that means 300 points for an A*,
270 points for an A, 240 points for a B, 210 for a C, 180
for a D and 150 for an E. It looks impressive to see a
school listed with an average points score of over 1,000,
but is it really a mark of achievement? Schools can propel themselves up this particular league table by entering pupils for a large number of subjects, none of which
they need do especially well at. A pupil achieving AAB
plus an E in general studies would actually score more
highly on this scale than a pupil achieving A*A*A*
even though the former would have missed out on a
place at a top university. Point scores tends to flatter the
results of state schools, which is perhaps one reason why
the corporation has chosen to use it.
In January the Daily Telegraph published a new
league table of schools ranked by A-level results, this
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Independent school pupils tend to come from higher
income brackets than state school pupils, but how do
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Taken on faith
Not all religious schools are the same, says Aidan Bellenger
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more creative than that. A Benedictine school has a very special character. It differs from other Catholic
schools. Unlike the Jesuits, founded
1,000 years after St Benedict, or the
19th century Salesians, the Benedictines do not have a fully articulated or generally accepted system of
education. Indeed most Benedictine
monks and nuns across the world do
not have a specifically educational
vocation. What they have is perhaps
more precious. In the sixth century
Rule of St Benedict they possess a
short, pithy and Gospel-filled epitome of living in communion which
provides a framework not only
for education, but also for life. The
School of the Lords Service it proposes is a place of lifelong learning, a
preparation for eternal life, the ultimate value added.
The Benedictines have four
well-established schools in England
at Ampleforth, Downside, Ealing
and Worth, some now under lay
management, as well as responsibility for a number of voluntary aided
primary schools in their parishes
and a university hall at Oxford. All
of these places share a common tradition but each has its strong sense
of local identity. One of the Benedictine monastic vows is stability and
this roots the schools geographically and personally. A continuing community is one of the hallmarks of
Benedictine education and affords
a profound sense of hospitality to all who seek its care.
The monastic school, like a monastery, sees the seeking
of God as its primary task. The Rule provides a model
for a viable community with shared priorities and clear
leadership to promote this search.
Much work is being done at the moment to develop a
curriculum which spells out the specific character of Benedictine learning and teaching. The English communities have benefited greatly from their co-operation with
the Manquehue Apostolic Movement in Chile, where a
variety of schools, entirely lay-run, are conducted on a
Benedictine model. It is clear in all the current discussions the Rule inspires that there is a strong emphasis on
what might be called wisdom rather than knowledge, on
the heart of the matter rather than its incidents, on what
the great Benedictine scholar, Dom Jean Leclercq called
the desire of learning and the love of God.
The famous moderation of the Benedictine way,
personalised for many in Cardinal Basil Hume of
Westminster, conceals its tougher implications. If Benedictine education seeks to get to the core of things, it
does so through rigour and hard work. St Benedict saw
idleness as the enemy of the soul and, although the idea
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the unity of all things makes clear the force of what has
become the Benedictine motto, Let God be Glorified
in All Things. St Benedicts Rule is profoundly incarnational, seeing and experiencing God in all aspects of
our life.
As long ago as 1981 Alasdair MacIntyre, writing in
After Virtue, contrasted our own disturbed time with a
crucial turning point in earlier history when men and
women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman Imperium and ceased to identify the
continuation of civility and moral community with the
maintenance of that Imperium. What they set themselves to achieve instead often not recognising firmly
what they were doing was the construction of new
forms of community within which the moral life could be
sustained so that both morality and civility might survive
the coming ages of barbarism and darkness. MacIntyre
concluded that, This time the barbarians are not waiting
beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing
us for quite some time. And it is our lack of consciousness of this that constitutes part of our predicament. We
are waiting not for a Godot, but for another doubtless
very different St Benedict. If we were to look again
at St Benedicts Rule we might find that St Benedict still
has much to say about our current predicaments and
may indeed prove as significant for the 21st century as
for the sixth.
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Maximum flexibility
Francis Holland headmistress Lucy Elphinstone tells Camilla Swift
about preparing girls for complicated careers like her own
versatility that she thinks girls need to get the hang of.
But how can a school teach its pupils to be flexible and
make the most of their abilities?
The first step is for girls to accept that their professional lives might not be a chain of simple promotions,
but rather a series of uneven dips, troughs and even
plateaux. Then, says Elphinstone, its a case of making the most of those slumps by developing other skills.
In a school, activities such as Young Enterprise and the
Duke of Edinburghs Awards are particularly good for
helping girls make the most of the talents and skills they
already have. The very flexibility that women and girls
often have naturally is the ace in our hand, she believes,
but girls are famously bad at selling themselves. Boys,
on the other hand, are much better at blagging and I
think we need a bit of that.
This is where the debate between single-sex and co-ed
education comes into play. Having seen both sides of the
coin (she taught solely in co-ed schools before moving to
Downe House), Elphinstone is now a total advocate of
single-sex education. Girls behave differently in mixed
environments, a trait that isnt always beneficial. People
say that girls are bitchy, she says, but I think theyre only
bitchy and cliquey when you introduce boys, as then the
sisterhood will turn against each other. Academically as
well, girls tend to thrive in an all-female environment, as
they can find it hard to assert themselves and achieve
highly in co-ed schools.
When it comes to the age-old boarding versus day
argument, shes not quite so black and white about things.
Boarding schools, she says, can be restrictive as the raft
of activities available on tap stops pupils from learning
independence, or how to juggle their own lives.
However, Elphinstone has to admit that there are
some things that London day schools cant do as well
as rural boarding schools, and one of those is sport.
She confesses to missing the rolling lacrosse fields of
Downe House, but is on a mission to improve all of the
schools extra-curricular activities, from sports to charity work. The Carmel Hall performing arts centre helps
clinch the schools reputation for producing prima ballerinas, with compulsory ballet for the younger girls,
optional ballet for all others, and a ballet teacher who
is the envy of London. And with Battersea Park on the
doorstep, tennis is already big, and there are plans to
introduce soccer as well.
Elphinstones aim, she explains, is to create a learning environment that cultivates flexibility, enterprise
and resilience, which she sums up in one word: grit. The
streets of Belgravia might not be gritty, but this headmistress certainly is.
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My expulsion shame
Mary Wakefield didnt enjoy being kicked out but shed
never trust a school that was scared to take the final step
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for Downe House to let things slide, keep the cash and
their reputation intact. Its for the sake of a child that
you let them go so the fact that actions have consequences can puncture their selfish skulls.
As for me, it was only the day after, when mother was
on her way to school to collect the
disgrace shed bred, that the reality
Never assume your little dear of being expelled began to bite.
No natural-born weasel accepts
is any better than the rest.
defeat easily, so I thought and
Never blame her friends
thought in hope of dreaming up a
useful lie. No dice. Even contrition
was impossible because Id said it all
the term before. Honestly Mum, this time Ive learned
my lesson.
An hour from crunch time, I climbed out of my bedroom window onto the roof where we smoked Marlboros and contemplated the hypothetical existence of
God and boys. I thought about how much I loved all
those things, and how much in fact I enjoyed this school.
I hadnt realised that before. So I sat on that rooftop,
with my red wool tights catching on the rough faces of
the down-sloping tiles, and wondered whether I should
jump. I shuffled my bum an inch forward, peered down
at the tarmac where soon a very slow and sorry pale
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It is a huge mistake to cap the number of visas given
to foreign students, says Peter Hoskin
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persists, for instance but it could also do with loosening elsewhere. Theres one regulation by which visa
applicants have to achieve a certain level of funding for
a 28-day period. Yet, as John Southworth, the Principal
of Lansdowne College, explains, In one case the visa was
refused because currency exchange rates had changed,
which meant that during the period of 28 days the students funds dipped slightly below the required amount
for a few days only.
A decent first step would be to remove foreign students from the figures for net migration. Not only would
this alleviate the political pressure to keep the numbers
down, but it would also recognise the fact that students
are a different class of immigrant. Unlike many others
who decamp to Britain, those carrying textbooks tend to
leave after a set period of time. In pure statistical terms,
reducing student immigration today achieves little more
than reducing emigration tomorrow. Its a special case,
and ought to be treated as such.
In her speech to last years Conservative party conference, Theresa May defended the governments caps and
restrictions on the grounds that a nation is more than
a market, and human beings are more than economic
units. Her point correct in itself was that immigration has social effects too. But, still, when it comes to
foreign students, a bit of hard-headed economic realism
wouldnt go amiss. Keep them out, and well all feel the
pain in our wallets. Open the doors, and well have a better chance of growth. Class dismissed.
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Monday 8 to Friday 12
April (GCSE: Monday
8 April to Thursday 11
April)
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hours tuition):
one subject
465. Two
subjects 885.
GCSE (14
hours tuition):
one subject
366. Two
subjects 696.
Three subjects
1,026
www.collingham.co.uk
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Courses
Fees
Website
Full A-level
875 (37.5
hours). A-level
(A2 or AS)
515 (20 hours
tuition). GCSE
415 (20 hours
tuition).
www.duffmiller.com
Full A-level
880 (35 hours).
AS or A2 555
(17.5 hours
tuition). GCSE
460 (17.5
hours). Three
or more GCSEs
charged at 355
per subject.
www.
lansdownecollege.com
www.mpw.co.uk/bham
www.mpw.co.uk
www.oxcoll.com
www.otc.ac.uk
Lansdowne
College
40-44 Bark Place,
London W2 4AT
020 7616 4400,
education@
lansdownecollege.
com
MPW
(Birmingham)
17-18 Greenfield
Crescent,
Birmingham B15
3AU
Oxford
International
College
Oxford Centre for
Innovation, New
Road, Oxford OX1
1BY
Monday 25 March to
Friday 29 March
Monday 1 April to Friday
5 April
Monday 8 April to Friday
12 April
MPW (London)
90/92 Queens Gate,
London SW7 5AB
7
(max 9)
3
(max 6)
Monday 25 March to
Friday 29 March
Monday 1 April to Friday
5 April
Monday 8 April to Friday
12 April
Monday 25 March to
Friday 29 March
Monday 1 April to Friday
5 April
Monday 8 April to Friday
12 April
01865 240637,
info@oxss.co.uk
Oxford Tutorial
College
12 King Edward
Street
Oxford OX1 4HT
01865 793333
Tuesday 2 April to
Saturday 6 April (GCSE: 2
April to 5 April)
Monday 8 April to Friday
12 April (GCSE: 9 April to
12 April)
info@otc.ac.uk
All of the above colleges are members of the Council for Independent Education (www.cife.org.uk),
a national organisation of independent colleges which specialise in preparing students for university entrance.
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