Ark is an international charity, transforming lives through education. We exist to give every young person, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life.
In the UK, we are a network of 36 schools, educating around 24,000 pupils in areas where we can make the biggest difference.
Through Ark Ventures, we incubate, launch and scale initiatives that address some of the most intractable issues in education and society – in the UK and around the world.
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Twelve challenges. One Ambition.
Join more than 6,000 school leaders with the Ambition:Feed. Read and discuss Ambition School Leadership's monthly challenge through a range of content. This month's focus: school culture and ethos.
The British government’s new plan to get children learning
Susannah Hares and Lee Crawfurd from Ark Venture, Education Partnerships Group, discuss DFID's new education policy which aims to get children learning in the developing world’s failing schools.

A lesson in English curriculum design
Amy McJennett is Director of English Mastery. In this blog she shares the lessons she has learnt from undertaking the gargantuan task of co-authoring an entire new English curriculum comprising 1400 lessons.