Education
A lost generation
At the start of the Covid-19 crisis, Chris Whitty often made the point that a pandemic kills in two ways:…
The aftermath
How can Britain recover post-Covid?
1619, 1776 and all that
Friday’s news that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died after her long battle with cancer has briefly pushed most other topics…
Our lopsided society
It is often said that the left does not understand human nature. Yet it is difficult to think of anything…
Learning the hard way
Many commentators have argued that the recent grading controversy indicates just how important public examinations are. Up to a point,…
The real losers of the A-levels fiasco
Three years ago I was contacted by an official at the Department for Education to see if I was interested…
The next education crisis
Many institutions face the fight of their lives
Exam failures
It was obvious that closing schools would hit the poorest hardest, inflicting permanent damage and deepening inequality. While many private…
The fight to defend academic freedom
About 18 months ago, I attended a debate at Policy Exchange, the think tank founded by Nick Boles, Francis Maude…
Age of the Econian
The public school elite who rule the wokerati
The lost boys
Britain’s forgotten demographic
Home advantage
Not going to school was the making of me
In Los Angeles, school’s out…forever?
Americans have mixed feelings about opening schools this fall. Some — like the Trump administration’s Department of Education — want…
Target for half of kids to go to university dropped
In a sign of how worried the government is about youth unemployment, it will – quiet literally – pay firms…
Gavin Williamson is right to call out educational snobbery
Politicians give speeches all the time, but with differing levels of significance. Can you think of a genuinely important political…
Rhyme and reason
‘It’s no go my honey love, it’s no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds…
Sorry state
The private school advantage has never been greater
Playing tag and Pooh sticks
We live in an urban world. It’s a statistical fact. The great outdoors for most of us is a thing…
A class apart
The lockdown is widening the gap between rich and poor pupils
Class divide
It would be a tragedy if one of the legacies of Covid-19 — a disease which hardly affects children physically…
My only home-schooling success
‘What is the point of learning maths? When do you ever actually need it? How does it ever affect your…
Barometer
In the beginning How did Britain mark its entry into the European Economic Community on 1 January 1973? There were no…
British universities are a modern-day racket
One of the great myths of Scottish higher education is that it’s free. Outside observers can be forgiven for making…
Letters: Why have the Conservatives decided Chesterfield is a lost cause?
Given up on Chesterfield? Sir: Matthew Parris makes some interesting and accurate points about growing Tory support in the north…
What have the Anglo-Saxons ever done for us?
It has been a while since I’ve considered the vexed question of Byrhtnoth’s ‘ofermod’. More than 30 years, in fact.…
