Education
Barometer
Name check 306 business people signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph saying that Britain would be better off outside…
Let’s make assisted dying legal for Brightonians
I am having terrible trouble with my hair at the moment. It is lank, flat and lifeless. There are split…
Middle-class warriors
Tuesday’s protest against Key Stage 1 Sats was moronic on so many levels that it’s hard to know where to…
Barometer
Getting a head Barack Obama dismissed Boris Johnson’s accusations that he shown disdain for Sir Winston Churchill by removing a bust…
The miracle of Michaela
It was like being on the set of an inspirational Hollywood film about a visionary teacher who transforms the lives…
Big heads
Private-school ‘superheads’ are wonderful for publicity.They may not be so good for teaching
Why I now believe in positive discrimination
The Prime Minister no doubt knew he would be fanning the flames when he waded into the argument about the…
A lesson in self-censorship
Surviving as a Tory teacher means keeping quiet
Why does no one speak up for poor white boys?
David Cameron can be a frustrating figure at times. He wrote an article for the Sunday Times this week in…
Educating Pakistan
The entrepreneur Seema Aziz has founded 256 schools and transformed the lives of many thousands of people. So why does the West ignore her remarkable story?
Q: What is a good school? A: One that other people like
A few months ago I received a call from someone running a small private school near New York. They believed…
The ringfence cycle
By now, George Osborne had hoped to have completed his austerity programme. Instead, he finds himself making what is, still,…
Guinness and oysters — or beef and Haut-Brion — in deepest Ireland
We were talking about the West of Ireland and agreed that there were few greater gastronomic pleasures than a slowly…
Lessons in jargon
Schools are becoming addicted to acronyms. It’s not just silly, it’s dangerous
Letters
The C of E should apologise Sir: Peter Hitchens’s article on the allegations against the late Bishop Bell is a…
Letters
The power of creativity Sir: A rounded education should encourage creativity as well as maths, English, science and history if…
The fine art of talking bunkum
At the last minute, a friend invited me to a ‘Distinguished Speakers Dinner’ at the Oxford and Cambridge Club earlier…
Why I’m glad my piano teacher spent more time chatting than teaching
At the entrance to Marylebone railway station is an old piano that anyone can play. Unfortunately, whoever had this sweet…
She could be a contender
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan thinks a woman should run to be the next Tory leader
The big chill
Michael Grandage’s latest show is about an old snap. Geneticists regard the X-ray of the hydrated ‘B’ form of DNA…
Dear Mary
Q. I am an impoverished artist living in a famously cheap European city, largely for reasons of economy. I love…
The library in the Jungle
In the middle of the Calais migrant camp, there is a book-filled haven of peace
The cruellest month
My August-born toddler is being marked out for failure – thank God the rules are changing
How to build a school
Lessons from the first year of our specialist maths school
The lessons of exam results season
Every year without fail, as the trees start thinking about losing their leaves, the papers are full of the same…
