Media Info

Communications Manager: Rachel Kerr rachelkerr@gsa.uk.com

The Girls’ Schools Association has almost 180 heads with a variety of specialist interests and expertise. Many are happy and able to comment on the full range of issues affecting contemporary education.

We also run the popular website www.MyDaughter.co.uk which provides advice and information on all aspects of raising and educating girls. The site is aimed at everyone with a daughter in UK education, irrespective of their choice of school.

We can provide press, online and broadcast media with:

news comment
case studies
background information & advice
features material
expert opinion
individual school contacts
broadcast interviewees
filming locations

Some of the topics we are happy to discuss inclue:

• Academy school sponsorship, free schools and community partnerships
• Affordability, bursaries etc
• Boarding
• Business / entrepreneurship and women in business
• Careers and girls’ career choices, choosing a-stereotypical careers
• Curriculum issues including but not exclusive to:
  individual subject provision, key stages, iGCSE, eBacc, A Levels, extended projects, International Baccalaureate
• Exams system and public examination results
• Extra-curricular activities, girls and sport etc
• ICT and technological innovation in the classroom
• Pastoral care issues including but not exclusive to: pupil happiness, friendship, moral education, PSHE, body image, bullying / cyber bullying
• School leadership and professional development
• Single sex education
• University admissions
  NB the GSA has equal representation on the Joint GSA/HMC University Admissions Committee

Communications Manager: Rachel Kerr rachelkerr@gsa.uk.com