by Greg Parry | Sep 21, 2026 | Leadership and Governance
Of every decision an owner makes about a school, the appointment of the head carries the longest consequences and receives the least scrutiny afterwards. More than any other post, it decides what the school becomes. Excellent teachers will not perform under a poor...
by Greg Parry | Sep 20, 2026 | Teaching and Learning
GSE set out a position on artificial intelligence in 2023, when most schools were still deciding whether to ban it. The position was that humans belong in the AI loop: that people identify the patterns, assign the meaning and make the decisions that matter, and that a...
by Greg Parry | Sep 20, 2026 | School Investment
Most school investment material stops at the equity story. It sets out the market, the fee level, the margin at maturity and the exit, and says almost nothing about the borrowing that sits underneath. That is a strange omission, because the debt decides more about how...
by Greg Parry | Sep 20, 2026 | Facilities and Design
Before an architect draws anything, somebody has to decide what the building is for. That decision is written down as a school design and specifications brief: a room by room statement of what the school needs, how many of each space, how large each one is, what has...
by Greg Parry | Sep 20, 2026 | Teaching and Learning
Most schools say that learning comes first, and their timetables usually say something else. Assemblies are added at short notice, rehearsals take the last week of term, visitors are shown around during lessons, announcements come over the intercom in the middle of an...
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