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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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| Thursday 14 January 2010 |
Kevin Rooney
We owe children a good education
The proposal to teach financial responsibility to kids shows schools have replaced learning with social engineering.
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| Thursday 17 December 2009 |
James Howell
The victory of Greenthink on campus
James Howell thought university life would be filled with junk food, non-conformism and critical thinking. He was wrong.
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| Wednesday 18 November 2009 |
Frank Furedi
Let’s give children the ‘store of human knowledge’
In flattering kids as ‘digital natives’ for whom the past is irrelevant, we degrade a vital adult mission: transmitting knowledge.
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| Tuesday 17 November 2009 |
Brid Hehir
Undermining nursing care by degrees
The proposal that nurses in England should be university graduates will further reduce the level of basic nursing skills.
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| Friday 6 November 2009 |
Jennie Bristow
Why pedagogy is in peril
Frank Furedi explains that the real problem in education isn’t intefering politicians or pushy parents, but a profound crisis of adult authority.
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| Tuesday 13 October 2009 |
Shane O’Neill
Hey, union, leave us kids alone!
The NUS’s offer of free alcoholic drinks to students who agree to have STI tests reveals its prudish anti-sex tendencies.
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| Wednesday 9 September 2009 |
David Perks
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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| Thursday 20 August 2009 |
Neil Davenport
A low level of educational ambition
While A-level grades may be rising, UK education remains as culturally impoverished as the public life that informs it.
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| Tuesday 18 August 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
A picture of prudishness
A college disciplinary case over a lecturer showing students some edgy photographs reveals how fear of offence trumps academic freedom today.
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| Tuesday 18 August 2009 |
Tim Black
Going ‘soft’ on learning
While Michael Gove has attacked the way children are pushed toward easier subjects, the real problem is a society that has devalued education.
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| Tuesday 23 June 2009 |
Frank Furedi
People should not be punished for their beliefs
The proposal to ban British National Party members from teaching in schools is a far bigger threat to democracy than the BNP itself.
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| Monday 15 June 2009 |
Jennie Bristow
Hands off home education!
The UK plan to clamp down on home-schooling, partly to ensure children aren’t being abused, is a serious assault on parental autonomy.
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