The Intelligent Performer

The Intelligent Performer

Every sporting family eventually asks what their child will do after sport. GSE’s answer is the Intelligent Performer: a graduate whose study and sport make each other stronger, with a pathway that keeps going after the playing stops. The look on a...
When School and Sport Work Together

When School and Sport Work Together

Some senior student athletes manage around 35 hours of sport a week alongside a full school programme, and love both. What the school and the sport each have to do to make that sustainable. Thirty-five hours and still smiling I know senior student athletes who spend...
Schools Are Schools and Sport Is Sport

Schools Are Schools and Sport Is Sport

Why sport belongs at the centre of the school business case, where sports academy schools go wrong, and the questions investors should ask before building one. The sandpit and the court Some investors think schools are schools and sport is sport. In their model, sport...
Why the Best Rarely Peak First

Why the Best Rarely Peak First

Most adults who reach world-class level were not child prodigies. What research on more than 34,000 elite performers means for schools, sports academies and the families who choose them. Marked to be a champion “My son is already marked to be a champion golfer....