September 2020 saw the introduction of T Levels in selected colleges and other post-16 providers.

In my experience, as an ex-school data manager, you can never start preparing for results days too soon.

Tables Checking is back… ‍The School and College Checking Exercise is back in 2022 following a two-year hiatus, due to the pandemic. ‍

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, for which the Mental Health Foundation has set the theme of Loneliness. There is often an assumption that only elderly people experience loneliness. The stigma that this creates around the experience of loneliness leaves people, especially young students, ashamed and unwilling to admit that they are struggling. It has become increasingly present in the social conscience not only as a result of the pandemic, but as the world has become more immediately ‘connected’ than ever, that loneliness is becoming a serious issue in our collective mental wellbeing.