Articles...
Aug 18 2008
Once, not all that long ago, you could pass by the children’s playground on your way across the park, and stop to watch them playing....
Aug 4 2008
Fifty years ago, when I was young, there existed a fairly rigid, two-tier education system in England. On the top there were the independent and grammar schools, whose pupils took O and A levels, went on to university and then took their place as the social and economic elite....
Jul 21 2008
Reading Dr Elinor Corfan’s graphic description of the appalling conditions and inequalities in healthcare before the advent of the NHS in the 1948 (Post July 4), I had only to close my eyes and I was back in those days again....
Jul 7 2008
I had thought that years in education had inured me to the insane pronouncements of successive government “think-tanks” and policy-makers, but they have now, finally, topped all their previous idiocy....
May 26 2008
IT is a sad irony that people who write about education, such as myself, generally confine themselves to the worlds of primary, secondary and further education....
Apr 14 2008
I see Hazel Blears has been peddling her predictably brainless dogma again, this time about Birmingham philanthropist George Cadbury....
Mar 31 2008
One of the big problems of education being a political football is that it gets kicked about....
Mar 3 2008
Reading in the press that Latin is making something of a comeback in some state schools set me thinking about a subject I haven't studied seriously for more than 50 years....
Feb 18 2008
Idon't know whether the education establishment is just plain stupid or merely duplicitous when it shows surprise and irritation that private school pupils are still obtaining the most places at top universities, particularly in science....
Feb 4 2008
There was much amazement when, in the early 1970s, true blue Solihull became one of the first boroughs to abandon grammar schools in favour of a wholly comprehensive education system; and even more when, some years later, Mrs Thatcher offered them the chance to restore grammar schools and they turned her down....
