Schools
Your problems solved
Q. It’s only April and yet I am being emailed by parents who have already taken charge and are drumming…
A dying language
Why I won’t let my children be taught French
Flip
What kind of scientists do school inspectors not need to be? ‘Inspectors don’t need to be rocket scientists.’ For what…
Children with a severe case of the excuses
There is a beautiful symmetry to all things, I think, and probably related somehow to the concept of karma. Only…
Meeting the monster
Michael Gove inspires irrational hatred among my fellow children’s authors. After interviewing him, I can finally see why
Teaching’s war on science
There’s an increasing amount of evidence about how we learn. But you won’t hear about it at teacher training college
Lessons in freedom
How politicians wreck education
It has to stop?
Upspeak can damage your career prospects
Super-heads will roll
The system of parachuting top teachers into failing schools seems to have been a recipe for corruption
Why I want my schools to ban the burka (and the miniskirt)
For most people, the question of whether to ban the burka is a purely theoretical one. Not for me. As…
Dear Mary
Q. Is there a polite way of halting a wannabe novelist from reading his oeuvre aloud to an unwilling audience?…
‘Correct names’
In a very rum letter to the Daily Telegraph, the Mother’s Union of all people joined with some other bodies…
The cash myth
According to popular wisdom on the left — and even among some in the Conservative party — this ought to have been…
Diary
Next time I’m in a sauna I’m going to say: ‘It’s like a school sports hall on prize day in…
It’s sport that really matters in life. Now where’s my surfboard?
What a glorious sporting summer it has been so far. For some the highlight will have been Andy Murray at…
A theatre critic at the school play
‘Another opening, another show,’ sang five-year-old Charlie on his way to school this morning — and then proceeded to belt…
