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,...
Angela Rayner Needs Schooling – Education Is Not A Public Good
It is entirely possible to say that education is good for the public, that it's a good - perhaps service but still - desired...
British Universities, State Schools And The Lake Wobegon Effect
Shocking figures out today from the Higher Education Statistical Authority today as we're told that half of British universities are letting in more of...
How German – Your Children Will Be Educated By The State, Not Homeschooled
The usual stereotype of Germany, where everything not forbidden is mandatory, is only a little overblown. After all the one great lesson of the...
Scottish Teacher Recruitment Problems – So, Abolish National Pay Rates
It appears that there are problems in recruiting teachers in Scotland - the answer therefore is to abolish those national pay scales. For quite...
Labour Insists The University Admissions System Is Staffed By The Ignorant
There could be a certain amount of truth to this contention, that the British university system is staffed by the ignorant. We think particularly...
George Monbiot Forgets Gramsci’s Long March Through The Institutions
There are indeed legitimate complaints to make about academia and this isn't one of them. That academics study advertising and its effect upon us...
The University Of The West Of England’s Suicide Rate Is Bang On Average, Or...
There's one of these little scandalettes about the suicide rate at the University of the West of England. A student representative wanted to know...
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,...
Perhaps The Feminisation Of Education Wasn’t That Good An Idea Then?
Some decades back it was noted that girls did rather worse than boys in our education system. Something must be done. Thus the education...