The dictators lunching with the Queen
Bahrain’s King Hamad and Swaziland’s King Mswati III among those having a Jubilee lunch with the Queen… In act that’s likely to be seen as an affront to those fighting for democracy in countries around the world, the Queen will today sit down with bloody dictators to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee at a [...]
Is the culture at some universities deterring working class students? Finding A levels fairly easy; I was able to manage achieving good grades, with an extra evening course, working in a shop at the weekends and going out a lot. The work load was fine and I was confident in my ability. Going [...]
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Why is the Right so obsessed with the notion that incentives are the answer to all our problems? It started with market-led interventions in education. Lower socio-economic groups both underperform educationally and are underrepresented in the best schools. A Conservative solution? Expand the academy and the free schools programs. Why? Because, as they [...]
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Is the auctioning of university places fundamentally wrong? “Access to higher education should never be based on the ability to pay,” declares a government official in the build-up to a major election; desperately hiding his private-school history at Eton. It’s something everyone wants to hear – but is it really true? Once we [...]
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The Catholic church in England is asking pupils to sign a petition against same-sex marriage… Pupils in every Catholic state-funded secondary school in England are being asked to sign a petition against same-sex marriage, in a move that secular groups say is not only ‘outrageous’, but could also be illegal. The Roman Catholic [...]
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The fear of failure is crippling British education and killing creativity in schools… A new study published by the American Psychological Association has shown that children perform better in school if they acknowledge failure as part of the learning process. On tasks such as anagram problems and reading comprehension, researchers found that children [...]
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University should be the best years of our lives, or so we’re told… Two and a half years into my degree and I am exhausted. All the ambition I once harboured has now evaporated. Rather than relishing these so called precious moments, I am seeing out the days until I leave. From the [...]
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Ed Miliband has made some smart moves when it comes to spinning the Coalition… Early last year, only months after he was elected leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband engaged in a cunning little piece of politics. The Labour Party stopped describing this government as a “coalition” and blaming the Lib Dems [...]
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