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Tom Finn-Kelcey
Can state schools emulate Eton?
There’s more to ‘old school tie’ networking than posh people helping other posh people to get jobs.
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| Monday 23 April 2012 |
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
It’s not just the truants bunking off education
Charlie Taylor’s proposals to crack down on truancy miss the point about how schools really fail children.
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| Thursday 19 April 2012 |
Helene Guldberg
The National Trust’s imagination deficit
The conservation charity is right to celebrate outdoor play, but the idea of ‘nature-deficit disorder’ is nonsense.
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| Wednesday 4 April 2012 |
Jonathan Hartford
We don’t need no grade inflation
Following Gove’s A-level blast, a sixth-form teacher lifts the lid on the cynical, ‘teach to the test’ reality of UK schools.
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| Wednesday 4 April 2012 |
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
Children need education, not qualifications
Schooling has a crucial, humanist task: to introduce pupils to the accumulated learning of humanity.
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| Wednesday 21 March 2012 |
Dennis Hayes
‘Johnny No Mates’: the new role model
Some UK schools are banning ‘best friends’ to spare children the heartbreak of falling out. Bad move.
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| Tuesday 20 March 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Meet the students taking on the state
If you think student groups are all PC, censorious bores, you clearly haven't heard of Liberty League.
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| Thursday 1 March 2012 |
Dennis Hayes
Turning professors into social engineers
Obsessed with furnishing student-consumers with skills, universities now merely train where once they enlightened.
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| Wednesday 29 February 2012 |
Tom Finn-Kelcey
Teach knowledge,
not work-life skills
For too long, vocational qualifications at schools have been used to lower the horizons of working-class kids.
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| Wednesday 1 February 2012 |
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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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