I know first-hand the need for a rehabilitative rather than punitive system.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Analysis and Comment
Only 2% of children have the skills needed to identify a credible news story.
A focus on more realistic performance outcomes can help students cope when things do not go to plan.
Academic language wasn't always rigorous – and it led to people hugging trees to cure their illnesses.
Reforms are set to continue in the same direction as before.
Implementing educational policies that promote long-term achievement and attainment is possible, but requires going beyond news headlines.
But there is an answer.
Adult education should never be seen as a luxury.
When the wall fell – education equality did too.
Universities are increasingly under threat everywhere.
School exclusions aren't increasing student attainment, in fact they're making things worse.
The former journalist raised eyebrows recently when he lapsed into Nonstandard English which is frowned upon in his National Curriculum.
Like students, academics from working-class backgrounds may also prefer not to work at elite universities.
Black and minority ethnic staff in universities are paid less than their white colleagues.
Children in classrooms – particularly in disadvantaged areas – are already feeling the very real effects of funding cuts.
The benefits of being 'mentally tough' are many. Why let just those who are lucky to be naturally resilient benefit, when it can be taught to everyone?
Proper support for breastfeeding is an environmental imperative.
When ideas are presented as topics to be debated, rather than as facts to be learnt, students and democracy benefit.
Over the past few decades secondary schools have become larger and fewer in number. For parents, this had made choices at once more limited, but also more complicated.
There's no evidence that private schools produce better results than state schools for equivalent pupils.
University strikes
The gradual withdrawal of state support for universities has been the largest, and quietest, privatisation in UK history, and most people don’t even know about it.
Academic freedom
As I found, academics engaging in fieldwork research are in a particularly vulnerable position.
School
How the grammar school selection process impacts children's self-perceptions and view of intelligence.
Exams
Half of clever students from poorer backgrounds fail to secure top GCSE grades.
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Rankings
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