In the age of social media, mastering the art of measured debate has never been so pressing. Knee-jerk reactions are common in cyberspace and often there is little in the way of listening and prioritising involved. With arguments flaring at lightening speed, exchanges can quickly spiral out of control. But in the real world,…
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Physics is perhaps the most inaccessible of academic subjects – one that is often mentioned in the same breath as the term “hitting a brick wall” and while more and more students are aware that sciences will offer more work opportunities in the 21st century, Physics remains a “hard” science in all senses of the…
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It may seem obvious that students need to be encouraged to believe in their own potential but what is clearly not so obvious is how to get them there. As Jessica Supple, the head of the National Gallery of Ireland’s Apollo Project, points out in a Ted talk called Could do better – reframing…
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After 17 years working with babies and toddlers, Kerry Mortlock is heading up the new Baby Education and Daycare Centre at King’s College Madrid, which will take little ones from the age of 16 weeks and nurture the first precious 10 to 12 months of their life with “lots of cuddles” and exploration based on…
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For obvious reasons, Christmas is the most exciting date on the calendar for small children. But teenagers and adults also place great importance on a season that brings light and warmth to the darkest months of the year in the northern hemisphere and sun-kissed family time south of the equator. At International British Schools overseas,…
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Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg and her Fridays for Future have done more to change our perspective on the environment than all the world’s politicians put together in what is being dubbed by the media as “the Greta Thunberg effect”. Guest of honour at high-profile global events, the 16-year-old powerhouse had the red carpet…
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In her autobiographical novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the famous 20th century American novelist Betty Smith writes about her experiences in a grim state school in New York, describing the visits from a couple of Art teachers as “the gold and silver sun-splash in the great muddy river of school days.” The joy and…
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Try thinking of a leader who has inspired you. It’s harder than you might think, perhaps because we initially try to conjure up someone of the calibre of Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi. But on a more modest scale, there are a number of figures who serve as role models, perhaps ones we…
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Click here to read this article in Spanish / Click aquí para leer el artículo en español At the start of this century, social media as we know it was still in its embryonic stages. If someone had said back then that politicians would communicate via tweets, most of us would have dismissed the idea as…
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Infants arriving at King’s College Chamartín on a sunny autumn morning in Madrid found themselves transported instead to the jungles of Africa. Met by the call of the wild from the Swinging Safari’s Wimoweh, it didn’t take them long to get into character, dressing up as alligators and lions and hammering out a number of…
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