All That US Help To Poor Kids In School Makes No Difference At All
At least, no great difference in the gap between poor kids and richer kids in achievements at school. Which is something of a pity...
Proof Perfect That We Should Leave The Grammar Schools Alone
The argument against grammar schools is that they perpetuate privilege. The middle classes - the upper middle classes even - use them to give...
Schools Don’t Just Educate Kids, They Warehouse Them
This is a little case of confusing desired status with reality. A primary school is going to give the children Friday afternoon off. On...
Teacher Pensions Aren’t A Stealth Tax Upon Universities
The basic point about pensions is that they are deferred wages. We go to work, we gain compensation for having to spend our time...
CUCA’s Response To Cambridge U’s Revocation Of Jordan Peterson’s Fellowship Offer
I think we could have guessed that the Cambridge University Conservative Association weren't going to be happy over this. The manner in which Cambridge...
Kamala Harris’ Teacher Pay Rise – But Education’s Not A Federal Issue
Kamala Harris has decided to float a plan to raise teachers' pay as part of her bid for the Democratic nomination. Which is puzzling,...
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...
Labour’s Lucy Powell Insists Universities Are Thick As Pigsh**
There's really no way around this, the Labor MP Lucy Powell is claiming, nay insisting, that all the universities in the country are entirely...
What Inequality? Even The Rich Have To Cheat Their Way Into College These Days
This strikes me as all most amusing. A scam whereby the children of the rich and famous get to cheat on their college entrance...
Cambridge University Decides To Increase Drop Out Rates Among Disadvantaged Students
It does seem rather cruel to set people up to fail. Even, ambitiously cruel to set them up to fail while tying a debt...