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General

  • "The time bomb that is science in British schools"
    Tom Brown, 10 June 2009
  • State vs independent schools: Brighton, East Sussex
    Daily Telegraph, 9 June 2009 
  • "Blogging from the DCSF Influential Heads’ Forum"
    independent schools council, 3 March 2009
  • "Push to bring state and independent schools closer"
    Sunday Times, 1 March 2009
  • "Flying high in Shoreham"
    Matt Ponsford, of Abraham U5th, completed his first solo flight on his 16th birthday.
    Shoreham Herald, 19 February 2009
  • "Hundreds volunteer to help the community" 
    SecEd, 11 February 2009
  • "Record numbers register at leading schools"
    Tom Brown, 11 February 2009
  • "Oxbridge record smashed for 3rd year running" 
    Kemptown Rag, February 2009 (pdf)
  • "Bildung 2.0 - Wie der Student von Morgen arbeitet und studiert"
    Readers Edition, 10 January 2009 (German), Translation of the first part of the article
  • Headmaster Richard Cairns in Most Influential 1000 List
    London Evening Standard, 8 October 2008
  • "Pupils given a break from ‘depressing' homework" 
    The Times, 22 September 2008

The culture of health and safety

  • "Private schools urged to recruit more foreign pupils"
    The Guardian, 30 April 2009
  • "Independent school headmaster criticises 'over-zealous' regulation"
    SFS Group, 30 April 2009
  • "Teachers to be given lessons in how to wash their hands"
    Daily Mail, 30 April 2009 
  • "Headmaster attacks handwashing course for teachers"
    Daily Telegraph, 29 April 2009

David Starkey at Brighton College

  • "We'd be better off under Henry VIII"
    Daily Express, 1 May 2009
  • "Schooling was better under Henry VIII's rule, claims TV historian Dr David Starkey"
    Daily Mail, 1 May 2009
  • "Henry VIII governed Britain better than Gordon Brown"
    Telegraph, 30 April 2009

Tom Daley

  •  "Bullied Olympic diver Tom Daley to change school after receiving two scholarship offers"
    Mail Online, 25 April 2009
  • "Private schools compete for Tom Daley" 
    The Times, 24 April 2009
  • "Brighton College offers top scholarship to bullied Olympic diver"
    tom-brown.com, 24 April 2009

Brighton College Expansion

  • "British schools see opportunity in foreign market"
    The Times, 26 March 2009
  • "Bloom and Brighton College to establish two schools in Abu Dhabi"
    Business Intelligence Middle East, 23     March 2009
  • "Arabic at centre of top UK school's Abu Dhabi plan" 
    ArabianBusiness.com, 23 March 2009
  • "Bloom And Brighton College To Establish Two Schools In Abu Dhabi" 
    UAE Today, 23 March 2009
  • "Bloom to set up Brighton schools in Abu Dhabi"
    Trade Arabia, 23 March 2009
  • "Bloom announces JV agreement with Brighton College" 
    xpress, 22 March 2009
  • "Schools are a home from home"
    The National, 21 March 2009
  • "Bloom in Brighton College tieup"
    Trade Arabia, 21 March 2009
  • "Bloom announces JV agreement with Brighton College" 
    Maktoob Business, 19 March 2009
  • "Abu Dhabi royal family goes back to school" 
    campdenfb.com, 19 March 2009
  • "UAE developer eyes global plan for top UK school"
    arabian business.com, 19 March 2009
  • "College and developer team up to establish chain of schools"
    Scotland on Sunday, 19 March 2009 
  • "UK college plans series of satellite schools"
    Financial Times, 19 March 2009 
  • "Private school to open 'replicas' overseas"
    Daily Telegraph, 19 March 2009
  • "Bloom launches multi-deal education partnership"
    AME Info, 19 March 2009
  • "School announces global expansion"
    BBC, 18 March 2009
  • "Middle East property developer to use Brighton College as template for chain of replica schools across the globe"
    Daily Mail, 18 March 2009
  • "Brighton independent school signs giant deal with Arab emirate"
    The Argus, 18 March 2009
  • "Lessons in expansion"
    Foreign Direct Expansion (fDi), 14 February 2009
  • "Schools look to expansion in the Gulf"
    Financial Times, 5 September 2008

Dyslexia 

  • "Parents blast MP over dyslexia debate"
    tom-brown.com, 15 January 2009

Brighton College Links with Kingsford Community School

  •  "Clever George"
    The Independent, 25 June 2009
  • "Teen works his way into history books"
    The Argus, 9 February 2009
  • "George Weller: Promise fulfilled"
    Times Online, 1 February 2009
  • "Further education: one school of thought"
    The Independent, 20 June 2008
  • "Breaking down school barriers"
    The Guardian, 20 June 2008
  • "Brighton public school head takes inner city role "
    The Argus, 20 June 2008
  • "Head calls for governor exchanges"
    BBC News, 19 June 2008

Why parents choose private education 11+

  • "Parents feel the pressure in scramble for school places" 
    The Guardian, 28 February 2009
  • "Choosing a new school: Never judge a hook by the cover" 
    Telegraph, 18 November 2008
  • "Secondary school admissions lottery" 
    BBC, 12 September 2008
  • "Parents desperate to flee state classroom lottery flood private school with applications"
    Mail on Sunday, 04 March 2008
  • "Lottery spreads as way of deciding which pupils get top places"
    Guardian, 03 March 2008
  • "Parents told school place results"
    BBC News, 04 March 2008
  • "Lucky dip education"
    BBC Politics show, 06 March 2008
  • "Determined to head for the private path"
    Times Online, 04 May 2008
  • "Many thousands will miss out on their first choice of school"
    Times Online, 05 March 2008
  • Are we all middle-class now?
    Times Online, 19 March 2008

Exam Results 2008

  • "Brighton College continues its upwards march"
    Financial Times,  13 September 2008
  • "Sussex schools celebrate top marks"
    The Argus, 1 September 2008
  • "'Teaching to the test' gives City girls a record result"
    The Times, 23 August 2008
  • "Biggest rise in GCSE A grades for 20 years - but record numbers are shunning the exams"
    London Evening Standard, 22 August 2008
  • "Success for trio of twins 'like winning gold'"
    Sussex Express, 22 August 2008
  • "Teenagers notch up record GCSE results"
    Metro, 21 August 2008
  • "GCSE joy for clever Kids"
    The Sun, 21 August 2008
  • "Brighton's twins raise the bar with top grades"
    The Guardian, 21 August 2008
  • "Top grades for trio of boy twins"
    BBC News, 21  August 2008
  • "Three sets of twins amass 48 As"
    BBC News, 21 August 2008
  • "Trio of boy twins secure 48 top-grade GCSEs"
    The Independent, 21 August 2008
  • "GCSE gold for trio of twins"
    The Express, 21 August 2008
  • "Success for trio of twins 'like winning gold'"
    Crawley Observer, 21 August 2008
  • "Biggest rise in GCSE A grades for 20 years as one in five exam papers are awarded top marks"
    Mail Online, 21 August 2008
  • "Heads withhold results in protest at the ‘factory farming' of pupils"
    The Times, 21 August 2008
  • "Brightest pupils are 'not being stretched' as top-grade GCSEs double in 20 years"
    Mail Online, 21 August 2008
  • GCSE results pictures
    'O' so happy, Top twins, Argus
  • "Pupils feel three A-levels no longer enough for university"
    Times Online, Times Picture Gallery, 15 August 2008
  • "A-level joy for twins"
    Chichester Observer, 15 August 2008
  • "Double joy for identical twins"
    Mail Online, 14 August 2008
  • "double joy for identical twins Harriet and Emily Caton-Thick"
    BBC News, 14 August 2008
  • "A-level results spark league table debate"
    Argus, 14 August 2008
  • A-level results pictures
    Jessica Baldey, Gabriela Colasurdo, ITV.com

GCSEs v O-levels

  • "GCSEs v O-levels, let the battle begin"
    Times Online, 6 July 2008
  • "GCSEs pass the test"
    Argus, 15 July 2008

Story of Our Land

  • "Time to fill gap in our children's knowledge of history"
    Argus, 15 May 2008
  • "Brighton College drops history, geography and RE
    Head will put history on the map to end ‘shame' over Britain's past"
    Times Online, 10 May 2008
  • "Children being failed by progressive teaching, say Tories"
    Guardian.co.uk, 09 May 2008
  • "Top private school scraps 'PC syllabus' to teach pupils the REAL history of Britishness"
    Daily Mail, 08 May 2008
  • "Head blasts teaching of history in schools"
    Argus Lite, 08 May 2008
  • "Top private school head calls on colleagues to unite behind academies"
    Argus 12 May 2008

Story of Our Land

  • "Time to fill gap in our children's knowledge of history"
    Argus, 15 May 2008
  • "Brighton College drops history, geography and RE
    Head will put history on the map to end ‘shame' over Britain's past"
    Times Online, 10 May 2008
  • "Children being failed by progressive teaching, say Tories"
    Guardian.co.uk, 09 May 2008
  • "Top private school scraps 'PC syllabus' to teach pupils the REAL history of Britishness"
    Daily Mail, 08 May 2008
  • "Head blasts teaching of history in schools"
    Argus Lite, 08 May 2008
  • "Top private school head calls on colleagues to unite behind academies"
    Argus 12 May 2008

Story of Our Land

  • "Time to fill gap in our children's knowledge of history"
    Argus, 15 May 2008
  • "Brighton College drops history, geography and RE
    Head will put history on the map to end ‘shame' over Britain's past"
    Times Online, 10 May 2008
  • "Children being failed by progressive teaching, say Tories"
    Guardian.co.uk, 09 May 2008
  • "Top private school scraps 'PC syllabus' to teach pupils the REAL history of Britishness"
    Daily Mail, 08 May 2008
  • "Head blasts teaching of history in schools"
    Argus Lite, 08 May 2008
  • "Top private school head calls on colleagues to unite behind academies"
    Argus 12 May 2008

Life Skills Lessons

  • "Head's main course: learn to mind your Ps and Qs"
    Times Online, 09 January 2008
  • "Etiquette Lessons For 'Rude' Pupils" 
    Sky News, 09 January 2008
  • "Why Manners Can Be The Making Of Us"
    Sky News, 09 January 2008
  • "Pupils to get lessons in good manners"
    Telegraph.co.uk, 09 January 2008
  • "Kids learn to speak to adults"
    Telegraph.co.uk, 13 January 2008
  • "Charm school: College that teaches pupils ballroom dancing, table manners and shirt-ironing"
    Daily Mail, 09 January 2008
  • "School introduces ironing and waltz lessons to prepare students for 'real life'"
    Mail on Sunday, 08 January 2008
  • "Skills deficit"
    Guardian, 10 January 2008
  • "The school that's putting manners back on the map"
    Marie Claire, 09 January 2008
  • "A brief history of manners... (remember them?)"
    Irish Independent, 07 February 2008
  • "Knigge: Respekt und Manieren als Schulfach"
    Die Presse (Germany), 17 February 2008 
  • "Pupils learn which cutlery to use"
    BBC News, 09 January 2008 
  • "Charm school: College that teaches pupils ballroom dancing, table manners and shirt-ironing"
    Evening Standard (London), 09 January 2008
  • "British college starts etiquette lessons"
    The Straits Times (Singapore), 10 January 2008 
  • "An old guide to modern living"
    News 24 (South Africa), 10 January 2008 
  • "Good manners back on the curriculum in UK"
    The West Australian, 10 January 2008
  • "UK students to learn how to tie bow ties"
    New Zealand Herald, 10 January 2008
  • "Cut the mustard, Jeeves"
    Herald Sun (Australia), 11 January 2008
  • "British students taught to mind their manners"
    Edmonton Journal (Canada), 10 January 2008
  • "Private school enlists poet to mix rhyme and reason in class"
    Financial Times, 28 June 2008

Sport

  • "Girls in cricket: Maiden victory"
    The Times, 28 June 2009
  • "Playing against men is next on the agenda" 
    The Times, 7 June 2009
  • "Woman picked as cricket director"
    BBC, 6 June 2009
  • "Ollie Phillips named IRB Sevens player of the year"
    RFU, 31 May 2009 
  • "Twickenham glory for Brighton" 
    The Argus, 11 May 2009
  • "You go, girls"
    Cricinfo, 25 March 2009
  • "Meet our new world champions: The England women's cricket team"
    The Independent, 23 March 2009
  • "Edwards leads roused England into final against New Zealand"
    The Guardian, 21 March 2009
  • "Sussex in World Cup bid"
    The Argus, 21 March 2009
  • "Colvin's World Cup dream is so close now" 
    Chichester Observer, 18 March 2009
  •  "Brighton crowned team of the month"
    Evening Standard, 5 March 2009
  • "RUGBY UNION: Stalwart Rosen steps up" 
    Oxford Mail, 11 February 2009
  • "Jordan Turner-Hall combining power with precision at Harlequins"
    Times Online, 17 January 2009
  • "Matt Prior: 'I wasn't sledging Tendulkar, I was trying to get a car'" 
    The Independent, 27 October 2008
  • The 2008 Telegraph School Sport Matters Awards winners
    Daily Telegraph, 7 October 2008
  • "Sweet success as novice turns champion"
    West Sussex Gazette, 3 October 2008 
  • "Verity's cricket career goes from strength to strength"
    Midhurst and Petworth Observer, 11 September 2008
  • "Connor elected to Sussex board"
    Cricinfo, 29 August 2008
  • "Colvin aims to top the chart for England"
    Chichester Observer, 15 August 2008 
  • "In 2005, aged 15, Colvin became the youngest woman to play cricket for England."
    Observer, 03 February 2008
  • "England rugby call for Ross"
    Mid Sussex Times, 11 February 2008
  • "Sarah's team thrashes Oz"
    Eastbourne Herald, 24 February 2008
  • "Caborn backs Brighton College in mixed teams row"
    Times Online, 04 October 2005
  • "Prior engagement"
    Times Online, 03 June 2007

Mandarin

  • "Head makes push for Mandarin"
    Northampton Chronicle, 12 February 2009
  • "Giant grasps its potential. Get used to it. China will soon be world No. 1"
    Toronto Sun, 21 August 2008
  • "We must focus on China before it sprints into a global lead"
    The TES, 30 May 2008
  • "More effort to teach Chinese"
    Times Online, 13 April 2008
  • "UK private schools' Beijing link"
    BBC News, 03 October, 2007
  • "Pupils Look To Way Of The Dragon"
    Sky News, 07 September 2007
  • "Private school in language and culture deal with China"
    The Independent, 02 August 2007
  • "Chinese language fever brings opportunities and harmony to the world"
    People's Daily Online, 13 July 2006
  • "College makes Chinese compulsory"
    BBC News, 16 January 2006
  • "School to make all pupils learn Mandarin"
    Guardian, 16 January 2006
  • "Wô huì shuô Zhôngwén"
    BBC Southern Counties, 17 January 2006
  • "Confucius say...wise man learn Chinese"
    First Eleven Magazine

Public Benefit / Scholarships

  • "Chance to shine at £24,000-a-year school"
    Telegraph, 03 February 2007
  • "A brighter life for the new Pygmalions"
    Times Online, 09 December 2007
  • "A free chance to shine"
    Times Online, 11 March 2007

Academic Results 

  • "‘Billy Elliot' pupil leaps to the fore with best results"
    Times Online, 24 August 2007 
  • "A levels in Brief"
    Times Online, 17 August 2007
  • "The A* route to success"
    Times Online, 14 October 2007