Life & Society: Education
Lead Feature
Scotland's Simon Cowell?
I've been portrayed as some kind of godawful combination of Elizabeth Bathory, Simon Cowell and Bird Flu and have turned out to be a terrible anti-climax...
In education
BBC's Oxbridge bias
- By Rachael Jolley
- 12 November
Isn't it time for the BBC to grasp the nettle of its outrageous pro-Oxbridge bias and stop permitting those institutions an upper hand on University Challenge?
Just wide of the post
- By David Thomas
- 06 November
FA Confidential - Sex, Drugs and Penalties: the Inside Story of English Football
David Davies with Henry Winter
Simon & Schuster, 384pp, £17.99
Labour's private school heroes
- By Jonathan Calder
- 13 October
Jonathan Calder looks down with bafflement from the top of the Stiperstones at the Labour Party's attitude to education
Class war zone
- By Francis Gilbert
- 09 October
Aggressive and disruptive behaviour blights many state schools, and the only remedy - excluding pupils - isn't working. Mentoring troubled children is more effective...
Life after Tom Hurndall
- By Jocelyn Hurndall
- 08 October
Jocelyn Hurndall - whose son Tom was unlawfully killed by the Israeli Defence Forces as he tried to rescue a Palestinian child - explains how she is putting her life back together by working with a university in the West Bank
Evolution of LittleBigPlanet
- By Iain Simons
- 01 October
With so much discussion in creative education about the barriers between arts and science work such as that by Media Molecule is hugely invigorating
Feature
One long Sats test
In this emotional indictment of our education system, the writer and teacher Francis Gilbert explains how an obsession with testing has broken enthusiasm for learning
More in education
Two diagnoses, one conclusion
- By Martin Bright
- 11 September 2008
The student princes
- By Nicholas Wapshott
- 11 September 2008
How ministers ignored the 'time bomb' in the classroom
- By Ed Howker
- 28 August 2008
In a league of their own
- By Peter Wilby
- 07 August 2008
A Neet solution
- By Charles Leadbeater
- 10 July 2008
Parent power confronts Sarkozy
- By Agnès Poirier
- 10 July 2008
Interview: Ed Balls
- By Martin Bright and Suzanne Moore
- 03 July 2008
