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Specialists in girls' education
The Girls' Schools Association (GSA) represents independent girls' schools in the UK.
Media & News
This section of the website provides access to the latest news about GSA and recent press and media coverage.
For all press enquiries please contact:
Rachel Kerr, GSA Communication Manager – rachelkerr@gsa.uk.com
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Girls' school holding ‘Failure Week’ to build pupil resilience and embrace risk
GSA member school, Wimbledon High School, GDST, is planning a “failure week” to teach pupils to embrace risk, build resilience and learn from their mistakes. The emphasi... Find out more »
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Apple launches e-textbook tools with new iBooks
The iBook Author program allows educators and authors to create their own e-textbooks. Apple aims to drive the use of electronic textbooks in the classroom by making it easier for ... Find out more »
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Award-winning Perthshire school sees girls boarding bucking trend and booming
A PERTHSHIRE all-girls school has been crowned *UK Independent School of the Year*…and its Head says this Scottish success shows it’s bucking the trend of girls going to English... Find out more »
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Apple rumours - E-textbook development will lead to 'bring your own device to school' says school leader
It won’t be long until classrooms experience the same BYOD – bring your own device – phenomenon that is already prevalent in the workplace, if the rumours about tomorrow’s A... Find out more »
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Decent ICT teachers already way ahead of curriculum
Welcoming Michael Gove’s plans to overhaul the school ICT curriculum, president of the Girls’ Schools Association (‘GSA’) has said that any decent ICT teacher is already way... Find out more »
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Single-sex schools are more likely to produce high-flying career girls
A study claims pupils educatied within an all-female environment are much more likely to take chances that their coed peers. The new study conducted by economists at the University ... Find out more »
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The most popular education stories of 2011
A round up by BBC News of the education stories that were most read during the course of the year, including University tuition fees and funding, impossible exam questions and the f... Find out more »
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Girls' Schools - new president to champion entrepreneurship
Encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit in girls is one of the issues that will define 2012 for Louise Robinson, the new president at the Girls’ Schools Association. Mrs Robinson w... Find out more »
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Young Apprentice winner Zara Brownless: I can be a teen tycoon
The Daily Express has published an article on the winner of the BBC’s Young Apprentice, Zara Brownless who was attending Abbot’s Hill School, in Hemel Hempstead, when the serie... Find out more »
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Tuition fee hike will make Oxbridge elite preserve
Students will face increasingly intense competition for places at Oxbridge and other top universities after the introduction of higher tuition fees, Caroline Jordan, headmistress of... Find out more »