Standard Education

What a load of non sense!

We cannot just do any old thing with our lives, filling them with whatever comes into our head, with no connection.

By Tim Middleton Dec. 3, 2023

Reputation revolution

By Tim Middleton Nov. 26, 2023

The value of values

By Tim Middleton Nov. 19, 2023

The colour of faithfulness

As the fact slowly sunk into their minds, the Head repeated that he believed that the girl deserved Colours, for her faithfulness, because she did what she could with what she had.

By Tim Middleton Nov. 12, 2023

Education: Casting a spell

In some countries, Halloween is something that is celebrated on 31st October, though as with many customs its original purpose is forgotten or ignored.

By Tim Middleton Nov. 5, 2023

Making a hash of it

Hashtags might be seen to be useful in saving time, energy and space, simply by pointing people in a few words to the heart of the matter, to what we stand for or believe (#bebrief).

By Tim Middleton Oct. 29, 2023

Ego mania

Consider then, some of the things people do on facebook or other social media platforms.

By Tim Middleton Oct. 22, 2023

I also have a dream

The fact is that we as humans and as society do judge people all the time.

By Tim Middleton Oct. 15, 2023

Celebration of collaboration

Of course, it is not only at the top level of sports that people have cheated.

By Tim Middleton Oct. 8, 2023

Raising a child riding a bike

Many parents may well have gone through one of the toughest and scariest experiences in their life, along the lines described above; teaching our own child to drive can be a haunting experience!

By Tim Middleton Sep. 24, 2023

B & P fosters digital transformation

With an enrollment of 756 learners at primary school and 630 at high school, B & P has turned out to be the most sought-after school in and outside Chitungwiza.

By Style Reporter Sep. 24, 2023

Sir Ramsay Melhuish: A diplomat’s love affair with Zim

Ramsay would always refer to this time as the making of him as a negotiator and diplomat.

By Andrew Melhuish Sep. 23, 2023

Sir Ramsay Melhuish: A diplomat’s love affair with Zim

Parents as pianists

We may take the analogy further and consider that moving from becoming to being a parent will require a similar journey as someone moving to being a pianist.

By Tim Middleton Sep. 17, 2023

Incentive for initiative

People have been tired of the potholes in their roads and have taken to repairing them themselves, as those whose responsibility it is to look after the roads do not do so

By Tim Middleton Sep. 10, 2023

Just ask

We are encouraged to ask, if we want to show initiative. Asking questions, after all, creates openings.

By Tim Middleton Sep. 3, 2023

In it to win it

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out, try to get him out, and when he is out, he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.

By Tim Middleton Aug. 27, 2023

The only failure

Henry Ford was more specific saying "There is no failure except the failure to serve one's purpose.

By Tim Middleton Aug. 20, 2023

Education: Siniority

The main problem with ‘seniority’ is that it is usually based on, and therefore confused with, superiority.

By Tim Middleton Aug. 13, 2023

The parable of eating out

Hard times fell on that city, making it hard for the patrons to continue to eat out but they did not want to forgo coming to that restaurant.

By Tim Middleton Aug. 6, 2023

The commonwealth in education

Parents must understand that each school is part of a bigger commonwealth and part of a bigger picture than simply that school.

By Tim Middleton Jul. 30, 2023

It is well!

The story of Horatio Spafford is an intriguing, inspiring and instructive one.

By Tim Middleton Jul. 23, 2023

I dig it all

Modern commentators have thus divided mankind into various categories, in relation to their approach to the advance of technology.

By Tim Middleton Jul. 16, 2023

See you in six years

Too many parents have passed the buck to schools to educate their child in areas that they should be doing, not least in life skills.

By Tim Middleton Jul. 2, 2023

How long is a piece of string?

The means of measurement may not take into consideration other important factors. Determining a school’s status on results is equally flawed.

By Tim Middleton Jun. 25, 2023

Open doors

Our modern world is too interested in the froth, the superficial, personality, and not in the truth, the substance, character.

By Tim Middleton Jun. 18, 2023

All the world’s a stage

It is not just the sports field that is a stage, but the home, the school, the workplace, the marketplace, the business world, the whole world.

By Tim Middleton Jun. 11, 2023

What every parent wants

We are not too worried if other people’s children do not have the best teacher, as long as our child has the best!

By Tim Middleton Jun. 4, 2023

Well, wells, welles

One hundred years later, who then is winning this race? Has civilisation advanced? How close to a catastrophe are we? Is education succeeding in this war of the world?

By Tim Middleton May. 28, 2023