Increasing Student Loan Repayments Is A Grand Idea
Someone finally starts to understand - even if they're not saying it out loud, only implying it - what the point of moving to...
Covid Will Kill The University – Huzzah!
Or perhaps that should be, huzzah if covid succeeds in killing the university.
Our problem is that the basic set up of lectures is...
War Graves
From our Swindon Correspondent:
From the BBC
The government has apologised for failures to properly commemorate black and Asian troops who died in World War One fighting...
Sleepy Joe Won’t Give Student Debt Relief
There's a good reason why Joe Biden is being coy over student loan relief over in the US. That reason being that it's a...
Wrong Symptom
From our Swindon Correspondent:
From Simon Jenkins in The Guardian
No less significant is what the pandemic has done to teaching technology. Education must be the most...
Every State School Should Fire At Least One Diversity Adviser
This is not quite what The Observer recommends as a strategy but it is indeed what the correct strategy is.
You see, private schools -...
Oh, right
It has led many academics to explore why so few Black students study technical subjects. The answer is complex, with structural causes that can...
Downside Monastery To Close
A bit of a pity but this is the real reason:
“The main driver is that this is a building we have been in for...
Entire Nonsense About The Coming Musician Shortage
This is exceedingly precious and thereby falls into error:
Orchestras will face talent shortage due to Covid rules on music lessons, Royal Philharmonic warns
Nonsense. The...
Let’s Kill The Teachers’ Unions
Vox treats us to a proposal for significant reform of the american K12 education system. Sadly, it doesn't include the one grand reform that...