by Heywood Quarterly Team | May 27, 2026 | Articles, Featured article, Seventh Edition
A summary of recent news and views you might have missed Back to school After 14 years, the National School of Government is set to relaunch, aiming to train senior civil servants in key skills for the future, such as AI usage and project management. This comes amidst... 
by The Heywood Quarterly Podcast | May 27, 2026 | Articles, Featured article, Leadership and Reflections, Seventh Edition
The Heywood Quarterly’s first podcast provides some compelling answers What sort of leaders perform best in schools? What qualities distinguish enduring organisations like NASA, the All Blacks rugby team, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal College of Music?... 
by Tim Dickson | May 27, 2026 | Articles, Seventh Edition
History’s lessons There are several surprising and provocative insights in the recent Heywood Quarterly podcast on public sector leadership, which took as its starting point a fascinating study on failing schools in England. One that stood out to me is that the... 
by Sally Davies | May 19, 2026 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Featured article, Policy Insights, Seventh Edition
Professor Dame Sally Davies calls for new thinking to mobilise governments, health systems and communities In 2024, an off-Broadway Scottish musical called The Mould That Changed The World (now renamed Lifeline) was performed on the floor of the United Nations,... 
by Charles Donald | May 13, 2026 | Articles, Economy and Industry, Featured article, Leadership and Reflections, Seventh Edition
Charles Donald reflects on the first ten years of the Government’s in-house corporate finance boutique For a former investment banker still relatively unfamiliar with the wider policy dynamics of Whitehall, it was a baptism of fire. Five days into my new job as CEO of... 
by Harry Booty | May 6, 2026 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Featured article, Policy Insights, Seventh Edition
Research by Harry Booty suggests that a mix of cultural and pragmatic considerations are at play It is now slightly more than three years since large language models (LLMs) in their current form burst into our collective consciousness and began to remake the...
