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Wednesday 1 February 2012	Education


Tom Finn-Kelcey One cheer for Ofsted’s new standards The education watchdog has finally recognised the importance of knowledge. But it’s still too target-obsessed.

Tuesday 8 November 2011
Patrick West Questo corso è molto prevenuto Language courses always come with baggage, like the BBC one that teaches you to talk about climate change in Italian.

Monday 24 October 2011
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert Behaviour checklists: a ‘ticking’ timebomb Giving UK schools yet more guidelines to follow won't improve behaviour, but will undermine teachers’ authority.

Thursday 1 September 2011
Patrick Hayes How to Prevent academic freedom Asking university staff to report on students who are ‘vulnerable’ to extremist ideas will only deter debate.

Thursday 11 August 2011
Dennis Hayes Speaking freely in the Middle East The Doha Debates suggest that people in the Arab world could teach Westerners a thing or two about freedom of speech.

Tuesday 12 July 2011
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert Letting down the next generation Headline-grabbing plans to name and shame the UK’s failing schools won’t address why education isn’t educating.

Monday 13 June 2011
Angus Kennedy Higher education should be free – of state control In the row about AC Grayling’s new college, the suffocating effect of state funding has been overlooked.

Tuesday 7 June 2011
Brendan O’Neill How dare you set up a new university!? The intolerant response to AC Grayling’s New College is driven by hostility towards educational experimentation.

Monday 18 April 2011
Rob Lyons Making a meal of school children’s diet A survey hailing the impact of healthy school dinners on kids’ capacity to learn is not as smart as it thinks.

Monday 18 April 2011
Patrick Hayes ‘We will sacrifice quality if necessary’ An unguarded comment by the new NUS president shows how denigrated university education has become.

Thursday 7 April 2011
James Howell Okay, it's time to put interning in perspective A former spiked intern has a message for his fellow jobbing students: internships are not a form of slave labour.

Tuesday 22 March 2011
Adrian Hart It’s mostly anti-racists keeping racism alive While race-relations experts fret about managing people, young people are embracing ‘superdiversity’.

Monday 21 March 2011
Patrick Hayes Students should learn the value of leadership The popular opposition to rising tuition fees and education cuts is hamstrung by a lack of clear purpose.

Thursday 17 March 2011
Nick Thorne Textbooks don’t make terrorists UK anti-terror laws threaten anyone who possesses the works of the IRA or al-Qaeda – even for the purposes of study.

Wednesday 2 March 2011
James Heartfield Where they teach you how to be thick ESSAY: State education has consistently encouraged working-class children to accept their lot in life.

Thursday 10 February 2011
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert A library shouldn’t be a glorified Starbucks In order to defend libraries from government cuts we must first clarify what these institutions are actually for.

Thursday 13 January 2011
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert Let teachers get on with teaching Politicians need to understand that the sole role of a school ought to be to transmit knowledge to the young.

Wednesday 5 January 2011
Neil Davenport Kick ‘corporate skills’ out of the academy When even English Lit students get marks for work experience, you know universities have been colonised by the market.

Wednesday 22 December 2010
Brendan O’Neill There is no ‘right to be a scholar’ In 2010, both mask-wearing anarchists and polite MPs argued that higher education is a right not a privilege. They were both wrong.

Monday 13 December 2010
Alex Standish Education in NYC: it’s business as usual Mayor Bloomberg’s selection of a glossy magazine publisher as New York City school chancellor is bizarre, but not surprising.
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