4 May 2012
An African adventure
Earlier this year, with a colleague and two S4 students, Alex Wood, a headteacher from…
4 May 2012
Munch
There are a few works of art which have entered the popular imagination and are…
4 May 2012
Stifling innovation
For many years the Scottish secondary curriculum followed a neat, symmetrical pattern. Students in…
4 May 2012
It's tough at the top
Edinburgh headteacher Alex Wood discusses with a number of his colleagues around the city the…
4 May 2012
The ploughman poet
Sunday sees the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. Alex Wood argues that…
4 May 2012
The cost of cutbacks
Edinburgh headteachers were last month asked by the council to enter an exercise in ranking…
3 May 2012
To the polls
The Scottish local elections on 3rd May have aroused little interest. The parties insist that…
3 May 2012
Quality street
Jim O’Brien, Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Edinburgh University’s Moray House School of Education,…
