Gender equality is more than just boys and girls being treated equally.  It is more than ensuring all have access to the same opportunities.

A quick internet search reveals a wide range of answers, all contextual.  If it's a company maybe it's profitability or customer satisfaction.  Sometimes success is ranked by a measure of improvement.

Things that make us happy. 

This time of year, much is written about the joys of Christmas. It is a great time of year for many people, and rightly so. There is much to celebrate and be thankful for. But here, I wish to say a little about those people for whom it is not such a great time - the homeless, the lonely, the bereaved.

Who'd want to be the Head of PSHEe?

If we time travelled back ten years, you would find me a fairly typical teacher when it came to PSHEe (Personal, Social, Health and Economic education).  Yes, it was useful stuff, but not always very interesting, a bit of a pain to teach at times, sometimes something to be dropped when things were busy.

Self-worth ... how can you teach this?

So many ills of society, and thus the tribulation of individuals, seems to come from what we value.  Not money, nor property or possessions; rather how we feel about ourselves. The child who bullies others, someone who falls in with gangs and drugs, the person who considers ending it all - it seems to me all these stem from a need to belong, to be given value, to be made to feel worthy.