Schools
Has the school co-educational ‘experiment’ failed?
Reading these reports of what has been happening in some co-educational public schools, it’s clear that the trend began way back…
Portrait of the week
Home The world was agog, some in tears, some in synchronised toe-curling, as the Duchess of Sussex and her husband…
Face masks in schools: a note on the evidence
Secondary-school children returning to school from 8 March will be required to wear masks in classrooms, at least for several…
Long-distance learning
Britain needs a Kiwi-style national correspondence school
Letters
Save on bishops Sir: The Church of England is once again missing the point if its financial crisis will result…
Lessons learned
Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner, on why schools must reopen
A lost generation
At the start of the Covid-19 crisis, Chris Whitty often made the point that a pandemic kills in two ways:…
Eton mess
On being sacked from the College
Snopes versus Abraham Lincoln
One of the most dreadful developments of the Donald Trump era has been the rise of the fact-check mafia. Every…
Finally America is realizing that Andrew Cuomo is a putz
In a sane world, Andrew Cuomo would be America’s least popular politician, a welcome target for a primary campaign or…
Dragon’s Din
Why do schools want to erase the past?
Downside’s downfall
The dissolution of a monastery
Learning the hard way
Many commentators have argued that the recent grading controversy indicates just how important public examinations are. Up to a point,…
Portrait of the Week
Home Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, made pupils wear face-coverings in school corridors. It didn’t take long for…
Children who died of Covid-19 were already seriously ill, new study shows
It has been clear from the start of the Covid-19 crisis – from Wuhan’s experience, before cases were confirmed in…
Will the next U-turn be on face masks at work?
There’s a new trend emerging when it comes to Covid-19 policy: where Scotland leads, England follows. In recent weeks, decisions…
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…
Exam failures
It was obvious that closing schools would hit the poorest hardest, inflicting permanent damage and deepening inequality. While many private…
Home advantage
Not going to school was the making of me
Does the curriculum really need ‘decolonising’?
Layla Moran, the Lib Dems’ education spokesman, has written to Gavin Williamson urging him to do something about ‘systemic racism’…
Sorry state
The private school advantage has never been greater
Letters
Back to schools Sir: I share Lucy Kellaway’s enthusiasm for seeing school-life return and inequality gaps closed (‘A class apart’,…
Time to recover
The discovery in Britain that a £5 steroid, dexamethasone, can be effective in treating Covid marks a potential breakthrough in…
Barometer
Made to measure The government started reviewing whether we should stay two metres apart while social distancing or whether one…
A class apart
The lockdown is widening the gap between rich and poor pupils
