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| Wednesday 9 September 2009 |
Keep teachers’ personal lives private
Teachers should resist the General Teaching Council’s new code of conduct telling them how to behave outside of work.
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| Wednesday 3 June 2009 |
Expel these managers from UK schools
Labour’s targets culture in schools means hefty salaries for managers and uninspiring education for kids.
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| Thursday 7 May 2009 |
SATs: testing children is not ‘child abuse’
Exams are an important means of assessment. But New Labour has turned them into a tool to micro-manage schools.
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| Monday 16 March 2009 |
Students deserve more than ‘crippling simplicity’
Why independent schools are rebelling against the UK government’s dumbed-down national exams.
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| Monday 15 December 2008 |
Jim Rose: education becomes a sideshow
The government’s review of primary education is about training children to conform to political pieties.
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| Thursday 18 September 2008 |
Creationism: why we need open debate
The Royal Society’s cowardly decision to force out its education director shows its inability to defend science.
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| Wednesday 23 April 2008 |
I’d like to teach the world to think...
The introduction of ‘thinking skills’ in British schools treats educational thought as a learned behaviour. But children are not dogs to be trained.
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| Tuesday 19 February 2008 |
The big bang implosion of Physics
In cutting their funding of the physical sciences, and devaluing science education, the US and UK governments are committing ‘scientific vandalism’.
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| Wednesday 24 October 2007 |
Scientists should never be censored
In turning James Watson into a pariah, Britain’s scientific community failed miserably in its responsibility to challenge unreason through open debate.
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| Thursday 16 November 2006 |
Behind Blair’s ‘bigging up’ of science
There's more to scientific endeavour than meeting confused government targets.
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| Wednesday 6 September 2006 |
Drax protesters: radicals for austerity
In the name of reducing CO2 emissions, greens are demonising mass electricity production – one of the marvels of the modern age.
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| Tuesday 15 August 2006 |
Teach science for science’s sake
Replacing physics, chemistry and biology with lessons in 'scientific literacy' will make children more wary of science in general.
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| Thursday 20 April 2006 |
The creation of a phantom enemy
It is the scientific establishment's own self-doubt that lies at the root of the furore over creationism.
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| Tuesday 14 March 2006 |
Intelligent design and educational stupidity
Worried about the rise of creationism in UK schools? This teacher blames the timidity of the science establishment.
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| Tuesday 14 February 2006 |
Testing adult authority
The UK government wants to turn teachers into shock troops against kids' bad behaviour. Not surprisingly, teachers aren't too keen.
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| Wednesday 30 November 2005 |
Hard science
How can teenagers hope to study physics, when the educational establishment thinks that abstract thought is beyond them?
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| Monday 21 November 2005 |
Faith no more
The spat over faith schools reveals the rotten core of British education.
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| Monday 21 February 2005 |
We don’t need no thought control
The UK government sees schools as a weapon in its war against feckless parents and feral children.
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| Thursday 11 September 2003 |
Let's get Physical
In defence of separate science teaching in schools.
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