Know your place …
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The English education system is sliding back into Victorian times with today’s schools almost as segregated by social class as they were in the 19th century, a controversial new book argues. The Education Debate, published tomorrow, draws a parallel between today’s academies, faith and comprehensive schools, and the elementary, grammar and public schools of more [...]
Wanted English speakers with fluency in sarcasm
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What is the Russian for “sub-prime mortgage”? Anyone? Most of us will never know, which is just as well because Russian apparently has yet to coin a word or phrase for this risky brand of loan.But the question is being tossed out to a bunch of young people who do need to come up with [...]
Rescuing academic refugees
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Fitsum Habtemariam was a lecturer in Eritrea in December 2004, a time of political upheaval. A government official asked him what he thought about the situation during a meeting at the university.”I thought it was really positive when someone came to ask for my opinion, and I thought it would make a difference. I gave [...]
Recognising the good of small schools
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School size should be a big issue in 2008. The debate about small school closures may not be new but it is about to come into sharper focus. The drive to reduce surplus places and the public spending squeeze have pushed several councils to explore school rationalisation.That is why the National Association for Small Schools [...]
Letters
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Independent inspectionTransferring independent school inspection to Ofsted (Under scrutiny, December 18) is long overdue. For high-quality independent schools whose good practices extend far beyond examination performance into the pastoral, the sporting and the artistic, sector-wide cross-fertilisation is very much in the national interest. And when the independent school is under-performing, in terms of its intake’s [...]
Bursaries buildings and blunders
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Top stories12,000 students miss chance of bursaries worth up to %26#163;12m
Cash for poorer applicants may go out retrospectively; data laws blamed for communication failure
Click here for more.Full coverage including tables and the Offa reportClick here for more.For more higher education news, click here*******ResearchConstruction of landmark medical research centre in doubt
MPs have expressed concern that the [...]
The fight against stress
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It’s approaching 5pm on a Wednesday night, and in a primary school gymnasium in north London, 35 tired and hungry teachers are being encouraged into tai chi poses.Leading the charge is Sue Westin, co-founder of holistic health company Relaxing the Mind, who has come to Roe Green primary school in Brent to run a “Keeping [...]
Crib sheet
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Small babes, large lessonsSeventeen-year-old Nathan Carson used to think having a baby with his girlfriend wouldn’t be too bad. “I probably thought, if it happens, it happens - we’ll manage somehow,” he says. Being involved in the reality TV show the Baby Borrowers, in which the BBC gave teenage couples live babies to care for [...]
Can we have economic growth alongside social cohesion
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Educational research institutions are not noted for picking grabby titles and the newest one - Learning and Life Chances in the Knowledge Economies and Societies - is hardly going to break that mould.But Llakes will be investigating one of the more compelling conundrums of human life: is it possible to enjoy the best of both [...]
Cribsheet
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The bar is half-empty”Don’t head off into town and spend a fortune on weekend-priced drinks, when you can come to your very own union instead. New this term: fantastic, better-than-ever drinks promotions - trebles+mixer (incl Red Bull) for %26pound;2.50 - new DJ line-up, stilt-walking, stage dancers and fire performers.”This rather desperate promotion for the Newcastle [...]
