Jeopardy! jeopardised
This is fun!
I picked this up this nugget from Ed Surge. It’s amazing what ingenuity people go to in order to get something. And...
Perfect, We Can Abolish Private Schools – But, Then, Why Would We Bother?
There's a vociferous section of British opinion that insists that we must abolish private schools. This is just the rich buying privilege for their...
Augar Review – No, Don’t Slash Fees, Raise Them, Increase The Interest Rate
Philip Augar is running a review into university fees, student loans and all that sort of thing. It's the usual Great and the Good...
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...
When Progressive Teaching Meets The Reality Of Human Children – Not A Pretty Sight
That progressive ideas have a certain problem when they meet - and thus conflict - with reality is obvious. If we really all were...
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...
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...
People Who Can Read Indulge In Less Political Violence
This paper explains why the revolutionary left have made such an effort to control the schools systems in the UK. By imposing whole word...
TEACH Grants, Loans And Why The Hell Do People Want The Government To Do...
An interesting little example of how government actually works here. No, not a story of how it should work. Nor of how we'll all...
Higher Teacher Salaries Only Work If You Change Who The Teachers Are
An interesting finding here. Sure, higher teacher salaries work. But not by paying the people currently teaching more so that they devote more effort,...