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Editorial image for "School Meal Deal" — The Deprived Pupil Premium — the eligibility criterion for two years' free…

School Meal Deal

The Deprived Pupil Premium — the eligibility criterion for two years' free university tuition — favours the work-shy and discriminates against working single parents

March 29, 2011

Counterpoints·Education·Welfare State

Editorial image for "Grade Deflation" — To Miss With Love by Katharine Birbalsingh.

Grade Deflation

To Miss With Love by Katharine Birbalsingh

March 28, 2011

Books·Education·Literature

Editorial image for "Grade Expectations" — Amy Chua's book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, may appeal to ambitious…

Grade Expectations

Amy Chua’s book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, may appeal to ambitious parents. But tough love-style child-rearing can only lead to Chinese burn-out

February 22, 2011

Counterpoints·Education·Family

Editorial image for "Nil Desperandum" — The commonly held assumption that Latin and Greek are "elitist" subjects…

Nil Desperandum

The commonly held assumption that Latin and Greek are "elitist" subjects is both fallacious and damaging

December 16, 2010

Academia·Counterpoints·Education

Editorial image for "Playtime is Over for Governors" — Who will want to volunteer to sit on school boards in the harsh new…

Playtime is Over for Governors

Who will want to volunteer to sit on school boards in the harsh new education climate?

December 16, 2010

Education·Features

Editorial image for "Sex in the Flower Beds" — We over-humanise animals while underestimating plants.

Sex in the Flower Beds

We over-humanise animals while underestimating plants. But it’s the latter that do all the work for us

November 23, 2010

Cosmos·Education·Science

Editorial image for "The Kids are Not All Right and I Am Angry" — Thrown out of her school after addressing the Conservative Party…

The Kids are Not All Right and I Am Angry

Thrown out of her school after addressing the Conservative Party conference, this teacher explains her change of mind

November 22, 2010

Academia·Education·Features

Editorial image for "The Costly New Idea of a University" — With tuition fees about to triple to make up for the withdrawal of state…

The Costly New Idea of a University

With tuition fees about to triple to make up for the withdrawal of state funding, it is time to reread Coleridge, Bentham and Mill

November 22, 2010

Academia·Education·Features·UK Politics

Editorial image for "Graduate Giving" — Alumni could be an integral part of saving European institutions of…

Graduate Giving

'Alumni could be an integral part of saving European institutions of learning from becoming the Costa cafés of the academy'

October 22, 2010

Education·European Eye·North America

Editorial image for "See No Evil" — The "independent inquiry" into the radicalisation of Umar Farouk…

See No Evil

The "independent inquiry" into the radicalisation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab at UCL was a pathetic embarrassment

October 21, 2010

Counterpoints·Education·War on Terror

Editorial image for "Hegemony 101" — Antonio Gramsci's great theory has cropped up in an unlikely place — the…

Hegemony 101

Antonio Gramsci's great theory has cropped up in an unlikely place — the A-level geography classroom

October 21, 2010

Counterpoints·Education

Editorial image for "Flouting (Not Flaunting) the Rules of English" — The teaching of grammar should be at the heart of the school syllabus.

Flouting (Not Flaunting) the Rules of English

The teaching of grammar should be at the heart of the school syllabus. Without it we are killing intellectual curiosity

October 21, 2010

Critique·Education·Heritage·Language

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