There’s A Simple Solution To Teacher Stress – Abolish School Holidays
We're told that teachers suffer terribly from stress. Given the source I'd not want to put all that much weight on the finding. What,...
Of All The Crazed Ideas – Wage Limits On Academic Talent Joining Industry
We have an interesting and useful proof of Feynman's Contention here, that outside their own specialty scientists are just as dumb as the rest...
If Universities Aren’t Producing The Workers Business Wants Then There’s No Economic Argument For...
There's a standard Stalinist mistake made in the education sector these days. It is to assume that more capital makes us all richer, without...
Donald Trump Just Fired An Awful Lot Of Grievance Studies Professors
Donald Trump just issued an executive order insisting that colleges obey the First Amendment. That something is wrong with American academia is shown by...
What Happened On This Day? – November 26th
November 26th might seem like a fairly ordinary date, but it has marked some significant historical events. It was on this day, calendar amended,...
What Ails Cambridge University – A Lack Of Afro Caribbean Hairdressers
Among the things which leads to fewer - too few according to some measures - blacks applying to study at Cambridge University is a...
Poor Little Snowflakes – Modern Language GCSEs Are Too Hard For Them
Today's particularly idiot complaint is that modern language GCSEs are too hard for the current snowflake generation. Well of course modern languages are hard...
SATS Good, Teachers Bad (Or It Might Be Genetic)
Quite often the conclusions we draw from a data set are biased towards what we want them to be, hence the Guardian arguing SATS...
It Is Paranoia To Spot A Conspiracy About Children’s Pre-School Speaking Ability
Entirely just a scare story, something invented in the corners of our own heads. To see this complaining about children's pre-school literacy and verbosity...
But How Many Foreigners Are Doing Creative Arts And Grievance Studies?
Around and about half of student loans are never repaid, meaning that the taxpayer - you and me - picks up the bill. This...