Although it’s officially called the “Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum”, we’ll all call it the Rose Review won’t we?
It’s out*, and the media have already started to produce glorious headlines. Whilst The Times goes with a factual “Primary school children 'should be taught technology, not tradition’”, for some reason the BBC’s headline this morning is “Lessons in being happy proposed”. And The Mail has gone for “Schools told to put computer skills on same footing as 3Rs”, which doesn’t seem that dramatic until you get to the main text, which includes:
The move to elevate computer skills to the same importance as literacy and numeracy will horrify traditionalists. Critics said it demonstrated warped priorities and risked further instability in the primary curriculum.
And, of course, the debate on the BBC website, led by the headline rather than the detail, is heading down the “are they barmy?” route.
One of the misinterpretations that has been made in the reporting in some media is that the review is proposing that primary school students learn more “computing skills”, which isn’t the proposal. What Sir Jim Rose is saying is that ICT can support learning, as well as being a skill set that pupils need later in life, and that primary schools need to help pupils to learn through ICT, as well as about ICT. The report emphasises the need for digital literacy – ie how to use ICT effectively – and is not calling for pupils to learn more about programming or highly technical computer skills.
So here’s my question for today:
Well, as far as I’m concerned, Broadclyst Community Primary School in Devon seem to be a perfect example – not only have they moved towards project-based work, and have switched to an ICT-rich environment, but they have then used this to allow them to support better parental engagement with what’s going on in school, which is absolutely critical to success. They still have success in the SATs test, and are helping to develop completely new skills in the students.
Broadclyst is a larger-than-average primary school - 400 pupils of diverse social backgrounds, with an above-average SEN intake. The recent “Outstanding” Ofsted reports talk about several factors of the school’s success, including a head teacher who provides inspirational leadership, staff who understand the importance of teamwork to support each other, and excellent learning outcomes for students. Creative and innovative use of ICT has influenced all of these factors —from a state-of-the-art lecture theatre for Year Six pupils through to online collaboration and communication between everyone in the school community.
We were down there earlier in the year to make a series of case study videos for the Innovative Schools website. And there are a couple of videos which are definitely worth watching in the context of the Rose Review.
Link to video (right click to download WMV file) It has an interview with the Deputy Head,Jonathan Bishop, where he talks about the changes they have made
We are often asked to take children with very difficult backgrounds And as they enter the school and the curriculum is more open ended - more matched to their needs - we find that the children very quickly become engaged and are more motivated by what they are doing. As they become more successful that really spurs them on. The secret to success is success…We as a school have some very highly independent self-motivated learners. And we believe that is because of the style of curriculum that is matched to their needs, and which is moving them from where they are to where they need to be.
No “Lessons in Happiness” then, but instead a focus on creating independent, self-motivated learners.
Link to video (right click to download WMV file)
This one is interesting because it starts with Jonathan discussing an Enterprise Project, where the students are working on a project-based learning activity, using ICT to allow them to work in parallel with a school in The Netherlands. The head teacher describes what this means to parents, and this is followed by a parent talking about the reaction of their child to the way the curriculum is now taught.
In many ways, Broadclyst is typical of what many schools in the country could achieve over time – they have not benefited from exceptional funding, but have concentrated on a particular vision of learning which has been supported by the school community and stakeholders. As Dr. Phil Norrey, Chief Executive of Devon County Council says in the written case study:
We wanted to regard Broadclyst as a laboratory to apply new ideas, to give them space and freedom to experiment. What we didn’t do was provide additional resources and funding. We were very clear that it was up to them to provide the resources.
No one school contains all of the answers to the challenges set by the Rose Review, but if you’re sitting next to somebody today who says “Bah Humbug. Lessons in Happiness. Over my dead body”, then show them what the outcome of the review might really mean to schools and pupils! Or if they’re not web-video types, print out the case study and put it on their desk
* Actually, at the time of writing, it isn’t out. Although the media seem to have been briefed, it’s not on the DCSF website (not even a press release), nor on the Review website. That all seems a bit strange, when Sir Jim Rose has been on the TV and Radio all morning.
I don’t think I’m letting out any secrets when I say that it can be complicated to buy software – there are so many different licensing schemes from so many different suppliers. And so it can sometimes be easy to get tripped up by the process. I know that people are looking for easier answers – last year’s blog post “How to get the best deal on Microsoft software” is one of the most read.
So I asked one of our licensing team to help me write a simple English guide – how to work out when your licensing agreement has been setup properly (it all revolves around virtual ‘paperwork’):
Do you know what “paperwork” you should receive from Microsoft when you sign a Microsoft Select or School Agreement? Once you have completed your Microsoft Select or School Agreement and sent them to your Microsoft Authorised Education reseller, they will then send them to our Operations Centre in Ireland to be processed. At this point Microsoft send you, by email, an Acceptance Letter, an MVLS* Invitation Letter and an Order Confirmation - usually within a week of acceptance of your agreement. This information will be sent directly via email to the nominated “notices contact” that you elected when signing your agreement. * MVLS= Microsoft Volume Licensing Services. It’s the website where you can activate your licences, download other resources, and activate your Software Assurance Benefits. It also details the following information: Unique agreement number Effective Date Expiry Date Your institution’s unique Volume Licensing Product Activation keys If you want to track details of your Microsoft Licence purchases or obtain Product Activation keys then you should log onto the MVLS web site at https://licensing.microsoft.com/eLicense/L1033/Default.asp Equally importantly, you use MVLS to get your Software Assurance benefits. Microsoft Software Assurance gives you the right to upgrade licenses software during the agreement term and includes a suite of additional benefits like training, support etc Software Assurance is optional for Select Licence customers but is automatically included with all School Agreements.
Do you know what “paperwork” you should receive from Microsoft when you sign a Microsoft Select or School Agreement?
Once you have completed your Microsoft Select or School Agreement and sent them to your Microsoft Authorised Education reseller, they will then send them to our Operations Centre in Ireland to be processed.
At this point Microsoft send you, by email, an Acceptance Letter, an MVLS* Invitation Letter and an Order Confirmation - usually within a week of acceptance of your agreement. This information will be sent directly via email to the nominated “notices contact” that you elected when signing your agreement.
* MVLS= Microsoft Volume Licensing Services. It’s the website where you can activate your licences, download other resources, and activate your Software Assurance Benefits.
It also details the following information:
If you want to track details of your Microsoft Licence purchases or obtain Product Activation keys then you should log onto the MVLS web site at https://licensing.microsoft.com/eLicense/L1033/Default.asp
Equally importantly, you use MVLS to get your Software Assurance benefits. Microsoft Software Assurance gives you the right to upgrade licenses software during the agreement term and includes a suite of additional benefits like training, support etc Software Assurance is optional for Select Licence customers but is automatically included with all School Agreements.
If you start a new licensing agreement, and for some reason you haven’t received the acceptance emails etc, then contact your Microsoft reseller (sometimes it’ll be because the paperwork hasn’t reached our Operations Centre – and that isn’t always our fault)
I was talking to colleagues in the Local Government team the other day, and they were telling me how the focus within local authorities has moved to "cost-saving" as a priority within their decision making. This is partly caused by the need to fill the budget gaps created by the downfall of Icelandic banks.
Although the Icelandic issue hasn't really affected schools (yet), the issue that is being talked about by the people that manage school budgets is the size of energy bills. My daughter came home from school last week, having been given the new job of “Radiator Monitor” – turning off the classroom radiators before going out to break, and making sure the radiators are turned down instead of opening a window*
What has the size of energy bills go to do with you?
Take a look at this chart – it shows that the average number of computers in both primary and secondary schools has almost doubled since 2002 - up from 25 to 50 in primary schools, and from 173 to 317 in secondary schools – which gives a combined total of just over 2 million computers – an increase of 1 million!
And at an average of 150 watts, assuming they’re switched on for 40 hours for 40 weeks, that’s an increase of about 240,000,000 KWh – or about £24m at 10p/KWh.
For a secondary school, an increase of 100 computers equals about £2,500 a year more on your electricity bill.
You’ve probably seen the EnergyStar labels on some of your equipment – it’s an environmental standard from the US Environmental Protection Agency – which not only defines how the equipment operates but also how it should be configured. For example, it specifies that:
One of my colleagues from the US has written an article which is a simple summary of what you can do to ensure your IT reduces it’s energy usage – and although it was written to ensure that you can comply with EnergyStar, the commonsense advice applies to us too. Ignore the snappy title “Sustainable Computing Power Management Settings for Compliance and a Reduced Footprint”, and skip to the content – it explains how you can use Group Policies to maximise energy saving.
Have a look, and then go and find the bursar and tell them how much you can save them – you may become their new best friend!
* Makes it sound like a Soviet-era economy doesn’t it – after hearing the “Radiator Monitor” story, I wondered whether there’s one massive thermostat somewhere in the DCSF offices – set to a steady 24o C - that controls the temperature of the radiators in every classroom in the country. And so in every school up and down the country the classroom temperature is regulated by opening and closing windows!
“Ed the Fed” has written to me again. For those who are new to the blog, Ed’s a legend around here as the Microsoft UK Chief Cyber-Security Advisor. We call him “Ed the Fed”, because of his career history at the FBI and other places – which obviously makes him an ideal person to ask about Information Security. (This cutout of Ed sits in our atrium!)
Ed writes in a ‘unique’ style, and given that we’re approaching Christmas, I thought this might make an ideal email to pass on to colleagues in school. And Ed really does mean it when he signs off with his email address – he’s always keen to respond to questions and offer advice.
For more good advice from Ed, take a look at “Ed the Fed says Stay Safe out There” from earlier this year.
Anyway, over to Ed:
. .. .Yes, pigs can fly and the “X-Files” programs are true, but When Will the Fat Lady Sing? A few days ago we read about the £38billion ponzi or advance fee scheme run by the former Chairman of NASDAQ – Bernard Madoff. Investment Securities International Limited, in London, was one of his operations. We didn’t need to read any tea leaves to know that the age old questions will again be asked, “How could this happen?”, “Where were the regulators?”, “How could reputable companies and institutions have been suckered?” We do know he was not a William Shakespeare’s ‘shylock’; in fact, he was “a most beloved human being”. The character references we hear about this guy remind me of the interviews of neighbours living next to Jeffrey Dahmer following his arrest, “He was such a nice person. We would have dinners at his home.” Let’s get real! We all know how this happened. White Collar Criminals are the best in the league. Having investigated scores of massive complex fraud schemes during my career as an FBI Agent, there was always one common thread. They gave what their victims wanted. Hope. A couple of them even wrote to me from their prison cells because I gave them what they craved. Attention. So, this begs the very question: “Has the fat lady sung?” And that’s why I am once again going to print my list of online things for you to stay away from no matter how good they might look. 1) Banks will NEVER ask you to verify your account details – they already have your details. 2) MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, and ALL other social network sites are OPEN by default. Unless you want everyone (including that bully at school, the nosey neighbour, your boss, your mother, or the paedophile in Thailand) looking at your site, NEVER use it until you make it PRIVATE. Go into settings and follow the instructions. See www.safesocialnetworking.com. Same goes with Instant Messenger – if you don’t know the person, don’t add them as a contact. 3) Microsoft has not and NEVER will hold a Lottery. 4) You know if you have relatives in Nigeria or West Africa. NEVER ‘help’ someone you don’t know move money from a foreign country – that makes you a criminal too! 5) NEVER click a hyperlink in an email from someone you don’t know. And be wise, unless you know who is sending you the online Birthday or Christmas card NEVER click on it – it’s loaded with malware or will redirect you to someplace you don’t want to be. Miscreants and criminals frequently abuse the ‘Hallmark’ name because it is so recognizable. If your name is not in the body of the email, do not click on it. 6) Wireless Internet: Make sure your wireless internet is secure (WEP is okay, WPA is better – and if you don’t know what these terms mean, read the instructions that came with your wireless device. If that fails, do NOT use your wireless internet until you find a trusted advisor to fix it (generally your neighbour’s 8 or 9 year old kid). 7) There is no free lunch. NEVER reply to email requests for charitable contributions. You call the charity yourself and know who you are talking to. 8) If there is a free lunch it’s because you are going to pay for it. NEVER reply to pop up ads telling you to run free anti-spyware or anti-malware to get rid of spyware or viruses. You can be certain they will ‘find’ bad stuff on your computer requiring you to buy what they want to sell. OR they will load stealth software onto your computer to steal what’s important to you. 9) NEVER think you are smarter than the criminal. You may be, but if you reply, you lose, you will always lose. 10) Falling in love at first sight does happen – and it’s fabulous when it does – but falling in love online, whether in Second Life or another online virtual world, can be dangerous. Hey, if you are scoring a 4 or 5 in real life, you gotta wonder why a 9 or 10 is chatting you up online. Happy Holidays everyone! See you in 2009. Ed Edward P Gibson Chief Security Advisor Microsoft Ltd UK PS As always, I look forward to hearing from you at EdGibson@Microsoft.com
. .. .Yes, pigs can fly and the “X-Files” programs are true, but When Will the Fat Lady Sing?
A few days ago we read about the £38billion ponzi or advance fee scheme run by the former Chairman of NASDAQ – Bernard Madoff. Investment Securities International Limited, in London, was one of his operations. We didn’t need to read any tea leaves to know that the age old questions will again be asked, “How could this happen?”, “Where were the regulators?”, “How could reputable companies and institutions have been suckered?” We do know he was not a William Shakespeare’s ‘shylock’; in fact, he was “a most beloved human being”. The character references we hear about this guy remind me of the interviews of neighbours living next to Jeffrey Dahmer following his arrest, “He was such a nice person. We would have dinners at his home.”
Let’s get real! We all know how this happened. White Collar Criminals are the best in the league. Having investigated scores of massive complex fraud schemes during my career as an FBI Agent, there was always one common thread. They gave what their victims wanted. Hope. A couple of them even wrote to me from their prison cells because I gave them what they craved. Attention. So, this begs the very question: “Has the fat lady sung?” And that’s why I am once again going to print my list of online things for you to stay away from no matter how good they might look.
1) Banks will NEVER ask you to verify your account details – they already have your details.
2) MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, and ALL other social network sites are OPEN by default. Unless you want everyone (including that bully at school, the nosey neighbour, your boss, your mother, or the paedophile in Thailand) looking at your site, NEVER use it until you make it PRIVATE. Go into settings and follow the instructions. See www.safesocialnetworking.com. Same goes with Instant Messenger – if you don’t know the person, don’t add them as a contact.
3) Microsoft has not and NEVER will hold a Lottery.
4) You know if you have relatives in Nigeria or West Africa. NEVER ‘help’ someone you don’t know move money from a foreign country – that makes you a criminal too!
5) NEVER click a hyperlink in an email from someone you don’t know. And be wise, unless you know who is sending you the online Birthday or Christmas card NEVER click on it – it’s loaded with malware or will redirect you to someplace you don’t want to be. Miscreants and criminals frequently abuse the ‘Hallmark’ name because it is so recognizable. If your name is not in the body of the email, do not click on it.
6) Wireless Internet: Make sure your wireless internet is secure (WEP is okay, WPA is better – and if you don’t know what these terms mean, read the instructions that came with your wireless device. If that fails, do NOT use your wireless internet until you find a trusted advisor to fix it (generally your neighbour’s 8 or 9 year old kid).
7) There is no free lunch. NEVER reply to email requests for charitable contributions. You call the charity yourself and know who you are talking to.
8) If there is a free lunch it’s because you are going to pay for it. NEVER reply to pop up ads telling you to run free anti-spyware or anti-malware to get rid of spyware or viruses. You can be certain they will ‘find’ bad stuff on your computer requiring you to buy what they want to sell. OR they will load stealth software onto your computer to steal what’s important to you.
9) NEVER think you are smarter than the criminal. You may be, but if you reply, you lose, you will always lose.
10) Falling in love at first sight does happen – and it’s fabulous when it does – but falling in love online, whether in Second Life or another online virtual world, can be dangerous. Hey, if you are scoring a 4 or 5 in real life, you gotta wonder why a 9 or 10 is chatting you up online.
Happy Holidays everyone!
See you in 2009.
Ed
Edward P Gibson
Chief Security Advisor
Microsoft Ltd UK
PS As always, I look forward to hearing from you at EdGibson@Microsoft.com
I’m sure you’ve already got this covered, but just in case you have missed it, we released the update for Internet Explorer overnight to resolve the security glitch that the BBC et al have been getting all frothed up about.
If you’ve got automatic updates set up on your own computer, or your school network, then it’ll be heading straight down the Internet to you now, but if for some reason you haven’t then pop across to the Microsoft Security Response Centre blog at http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/default.aspx to read more about it, and actions to take.
“…we released security update MS08-078, protecting customers from active attacks against Internet Explorer. This update will be applied automatically to hundreds of millions of customers through automatic updates over the next few days. And, for our enterprise customers - with multiple systems within their networks – this update can be deployed through all standard security update management systems including, SCCM, SMS, WSUS, and Windows Update.”
You may also want to drop an email around staff to check they have Automatic Updates setup on their home computers – you’ll help them to keep themselves safe online. (A little more advice for staff at home later today)
I know – it’s nearly the end of term and you were looking forward to a quiet week before the little darlings leave you alone for a fortnight (do I mean teachers or students?) to get on with your string of upgrades, changes and system backups. But if nothing else, making sure you’ve updated will mean you can shorten every corridor conversation with people who say “What about this thing I heard on the radio…”
Every year we run a global competition called the Imagine Cup. It has traditionally been aimed at university students, and each year one team from the UK has made it to the global finals, held in a far-away place (okay, France last year, but Egypt in 2009). This year, entry has been extended to students who are 16 or over, meaning that you could enter a Sixth Form team.
The team that have put this together have made sure that it is attractive by adding a guaranteed prize for somebody in your school, in the IT Challenge Round One. Because if you enter into the Round One quizzes, the top student wins a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate or Office 2007 Ultimate.
Interested? Read on…(or send this straight to your favourite IT teacher)
The IT Challenge is a fun quiz based around general IT knowledge, that aligns to most IT courses. The quiz is held online at scheduled times throughout December and January and students would compete on the www.imaginecup.com site. The next round is on Saturday 20th December, so there’s a chance to promote this to your students this week, and get them to enter online next Saturday when they’ve broken up (now because this is a global competition, we’ve tried to find globally-friendly times – which may be a challenge in this round – 16-year olds at 8am on a weekend – might not be UK-friendly!) But it’s a chance for them to win a Christmas present! There are 3 remaining Round One quizzes left in this year’s Imagine Cup so it is important to get as many of your students registering and attending one of the timetabled events: Round 1 Quiz Date and Time #3B 20th December 2008 8:00 AM #4A 14th January 2009 10:00 PM #4B 31st January 2009 12:00 PM The highest scoring student from your school/college will be eligible to win a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate or Office 2007 Ultimate. We will monitor the scores of those schools who have told us they are taking part only, and contact the highest scoring student after each quiz to arrange delivery of their prize. So here’s what to do To get your students involved, you need to let the team know that you are taking part with the following information: Name of teacher/lecturer, email address Number of students in class School name And then just email this information to ukacinfo@microsoft.com.
The IT Challenge is a fun quiz based around general IT knowledge, that aligns to most IT courses. The quiz is held online at scheduled times throughout December and January and students would compete on the www.imaginecup.com site.
The next round is on Saturday 20th December, so there’s a chance to promote this to your students this week, and get them to enter online next Saturday when they’ve broken up (now because this is a global competition, we’ve tried to find globally-friendly times – which may be a challenge in this round – 16-year olds at 8am on a weekend – might not be UK-friendly!) But it’s a chance for them to win a Christmas present!
There are 3 remaining Round One quizzes left in this year’s Imagine Cup so it is important to get as many of your students registering and attending one of the timetabled events:
Round 1 Quiz
Date and Time
#3B
20th December 2008 8:00 AM
#4A
14th January 2009 10:00 PM
#4B
31st January 2009 12:00 PM
The highest scoring student from your school/college will be eligible to win a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate or Office 2007 Ultimate. We will monitor the scores of those schools who have told us they are taking part only, and contact the highest scoring student after each quiz to arrange delivery of their prize.
So here’s what to do
To get your students involved, you need to let the team know that you are taking part with the following information:
And then just email this information to ukacinfo@microsoft.com.
The Imagine Cup folks have put together this email that you can forward to your students and there is a competitor’s guide to help the students get started with the IT Challenge.
Yesterday I wrote about the Rose Review of the primary curriculum, and made mention of the BBC’s website headline “Lessons in being happy proposed”, which I linked to the full article. Of all of yesterday’s headlines, the BBC article seemed to be the most combative. Well, no longer. Although the link sends you to the same article, the headline has changed to the very worthy “Primary school subjects overhaul” – and the content has changed too, to something a little less opposed.
What makes this Orwellian, is that according to the BBC website, this page hasn’t changed since 5:30am yesterday – 4 hours BEFORE it said “Lessons in being happy proposed”.
So either I’m going mad, or the BBC re-wrote the page without ‘fessing up. I imagine that there were some corridor conversations between the BBC and the DCSF to try and generate a more balanced report. That’s twice that has happened to pages I’ve written about here (the Becta Information Security pages had the same phenomenon). I’m going to take a screenshot next time, so you don’t think I’m going mad.
Oh, and good news. Yesterday I said that the report wasn’t available online. Well, now the report is available from the Review website.
They’ve been at it again in the TES – being nice about the things we do, and especially about some of the clever things that schools do with some of the technology we’ve created.
This week, Saturday morning’s post brought me cheer when they wrote about the Innovative Schools programme – the series of detailed case study videos we created earlier this year, exploring what four schools have done with to bring about change, and how they have achieved it (and, of course, the role of ICT). I especially liked the first quote from the headteacher at Broadclyst Primary School, because it’s something I really believe
Peter Hicks, Broadclyst’s headteacher, believes that technology plays a central role in achieving this goal. “We’re moving towards a fully global economy, so academic qualifications no longer guarantee success,” he says. “Today’s children will trade on their human capital, their ability to collaborate with other people around the globe. It’s technology that will help them learn those social skills.”
The article, Brave New World, is online, or pop down to the staffroom and go to page 4 of Friday’s TES Magazine (it’s okay, that’ll still be on the table in the staffroom – it’s only the jobs section that’ll have gone).
And you can hear the schools’ stories in their own words on the Innovative Schools website – there are loads of useful videos and documents that would make an ideal kit for an INSET day.
The same author, Steve Hastings, wrote a long article last week too, about the digital divide between teachers, based on Becta’s view that only 1 in 5 primary school teachers are confident with ICT, and only 1 in 20 secondary teachers are confident. In it, he talked about how some schools have looked at the technology pupils know and like, and then find ways to make use of it.
A similar tactic has worked wonders at Twynham School in Dorset. When the school was designing its online learning resources, using Microsoft’s SharePoint technology, it began by thinking about how pupils use the internet. Pupils were involved in every stage of development, disclosing the secrets of their surfing habits and owning up to their blogging addictions. The end result was a learning gateway that they enjoy and find easy to navigate, and which reflects the kind of websites they use in their spare time.
“Blogging addictions” sounds a little worrying doesn’t it? I think the message is that “Build it and they will come” doesn’t always work, and that you can move faster if you link in to the ways students are already using technology.
Some of the interesting statistics from the article:
The Divide The Statistics The Source The class divide 86% of ABC1 houses have internet access, compared to only 63% of C2DE houses. Ofcom 2008 £300m - The amount the Government has pledged to spend on giving computers and broadband connection to the poorest families. The school divide More than 40% of schools say their provision of desktops and laptops is not sufficient to deliver the curriculum successfully. Becta 2008 An increasing number of schools have a 100% wireless network, yet 41% of secondaries have no wireless network at all. Becta 2008 6:1 Average pupil to computer ratio in UK primaries. Becta 2008 The age divide 79% of 12 to 15-year-old girls have at least one profile on a social networking site, compared with just 20% of adult internet users Ofcom 2008 5% of schools use social networking as an educational tool. Becta 2008 95% of 15-year-olds use a mobile phone. Ofcom 2008 1% of primary schools and 11% of secondaries allow mobile phones in lessons. Becta 2008 82% of children regularly play video games, but only 30% of adults. Futurelab 2006 87% of 12 to 15-year-olds are confident of getting the internet to do what they want. Ofcom 2008 33% of teachers feel they don’t have the technology skills to exploit the technology available to them. NFER 2008
The article, Keep Plugging, is online (or in the TES magazine from 21st November)
A couple of weeks ago, I set up a small survey to help me start to to understand who’s reading the blog, so that in the future I can try and make sure that I’m writing for the right person.
That first poll told me some interesting things (and didn’t contain any big surprises), but even just writing this next one turned out to be tricky. I want to get an idea of your job role – and I found it really difficult to get it down to 4 options. And so I suspect that there’ll be a lot of “others” in the list! I also made it multiple choice – so that you can classify yourself into more than one box!
Does it surprise you that just under half of the readers are from a secondary school? Probably note. And a quarter are from local authorities? Here’s a simple summary of the answers, but you can get a detailed analysis by percentages back on the original survey page.