Cleverlands: The Secrets Behind the Success of the World’s Education Superpowers

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I left teaching exhausted by the workload when the change to GCSE made an exponential increase to my after hours work as an English teacher.

I too feel that the UK education system is misguided, in that they are focusing on the wrong things. She then spent time working in schools and living with teachers in six 'top-performing' education systems; the basis for her book, 'Cleverlands: the secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers', one of The Economist's 'books of the year 2016'. Take a look at Magic Eyes - Vision Training for Children - the author Leo Angart is Danish and has taught Natural Vision in Europe and the Far East. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. This point is succinctly illustrated by a quote from a Japanese parent on page 65, ‘Japan is a country where if you want to go into society you have to go by the rules, so you have to first learn in school to go by the rules’.The author is also to be commended on her exploration of the Hukou system and its impact on educational outcomes in Shanghai. Whatever your business needs we offer a prompt and efficient service, throughout the UK, Europe and around the world. The Chinese concept of ‘licking the bitterness’ or the Japanese concept of ‘Gaman’ each reflect a willingness to suffer/sacrifice to achieve a goal. She now works as part of a team advising foreign governments on education reform at the Education Development Trust.

As a teacher in an inner-city school, Lucy Crehan was exasperated with ever-changing government policy claiming to be based on lessons from ‘top-performing’ education systems. From our office proceed along Lansdown Road onto the Strand and at the mini roundabout turn left heading onto Stratton Road. Lucy Crehan, author of ‘Cleverlands’, will share her fascinating experience of high-performing school systems work across the world and how we can be aspirational for all our pupils. First up was Finland, a country oft cited by more progressive educationalists as a system from which the UK could learn. I have never quite bought the Finland story – a country with a frighteningly high suicide rate, unemployment figures at over 8% and only five Nobel Laureates in its history can’t be doing that well in education terms – so I was looking forward to learning more.Now, he serves as Director of Leadership and Development for Tower Hamlets Education Partnership, supporting nearly one hundred East London schools operating in one of the most diverse and deprived boroughs in the country. I launched the project on Friday at the Sunday Times Education Festival where I was speaking about education in Finland, Japan and Singapore.