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Brendan O’Neill
The pushy parents of modern-day radicalism
Showbiz mums who make their daughters do tapdance don’t have a patch on the middle-class parents dropping their kids off at student demos.
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| Wednesday 24 November 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Panorama: titillating the New Atheist set
The revelation that some British Muslim kids are reading Saudi textbooks was like manna from heaven for the anti-faith schools lobby.
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| Friday 12 November 2010 |
Mick Hume
A respectable riot
The sympathetic public response to the London student protests demonstrates that millions oppose the coalition’s spending cuts – but nobody has much of a clue what to do about them.
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| Thursday 11 November 2010 |
Tim Black
Hungry for knowledge or just angry customers?
Tim Black reports from the university cuts protest in London and argues that the biggest problem is the bastardisation of education itself.
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| Wednesday 3 November 2010 |
Joanna Williams
The student-customer is not always right
Lord Browne’s idea that student feedback surveys should shape education is a bigger shock than the proposed hike in fees.
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| Tuesday 12 October 2010 |
Tim Black
Turning the Ivory Towers into a skills factory
Today’s yawn-inducing debate about how higher education should be funded reflects a profound uncertainty about what higher education is for.
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| Thursday 7 October 2010 |
Tim Black
Removing the red tape is the easy part
The Lib-Cons’ war on the health-and-safety cult is welcome. But the problem runs deeper than they think.
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| Monday 20 September 2010 |
Tim Black
Everyone is special in the therapy culture
A new report blames teachers for overdiagnosing kids with special needs. But the whole of society is playing this game.
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| Tuesday 7 September 2010 |
Neil Davenport
How ‘relevance’ killed the public library
For fear of being branded elitist, British libraries have ruinously sacrificed silence and good books for cafés and DVDs.
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| Wednesday 25 August 2010 |
David Perks
University just isn’t
right for everyone
If you’re going to university simply to improve your CV or ‘find yourself’, maybe it’s time for a rethink.
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| Monday 23 August 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
The weird fashion for bashing faith schools
Far from being factories of conformism, many faith schools turn out youngsters with high levels of BS immunity.
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| Tuesday 17 August 2010 |
Sharmini Brookes
This bullying of Blyton is jolly trying
Top-down tinkering with Enid Blyton’s books implies children can’t cope with difficult and offensive words. But they can.
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| Wednesday 7 July 2010 |
James Heartfield
Kids deserve nice schools and good education
Labour’s school building scheme was a poor substitute for raising educational standards, but axing it is a bad idea.
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| Thursday 13 May 2010 |
Patrick Hayes
‘Yes we Lacan’: the revolt of philosophy students
Patrick Hayes talks to the Middlesex students who have occupied their university in defence of knowledge for its own sake.
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| Wednesday 28 April 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
‘Free schools’ won’t save British education
A Swede tells the Tories that they are wrong to get so overexcited about the Swedish free-school model.
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| Tuesday 16 March 2010 |
Frank Furedi
Education: you can’t buy and sell intellectual capital
ELECTION ESSAY: Frank Furedi explains why the mighty mess Labour made of education won’t be fixed by privatisation or parental pressure.
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| Wednesday 24 February 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
What’s so progressive about sex education?
The idea that the sex-ed curriculum is pure and neutral, in contrast to faith schools’ alleged bigotry, is nonsense.
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| Thursday 11 February 2010 |
Valerie Hartwich
Building a fortress around British academia
A new report shows just how devastating, irrational and unfair are the UK’s restrictions on international students.
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| Wednesday 3 February 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Stop perverting Anne Frank’s diary
Banning the diary from schools because she wrote about sex is bizarre. But so are the attempts to turn it into a guide to life.
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| Thursday 28 January 2010 |
Frank Furedi
Music for the masses: could it work here?
It would be brilliant if El Sistema, Venezuela’s social movement for classical music education, came to Britain. But there are obstacles.
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