University Challenge is a hallmark of BBC2 programming, celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year. But its structure is thoroughly outdated, and completely misrepresents academic rigour.…
So yesterday I blasted the Daily Mail in passing for its ‘moral panics’ … Yes I’m at it again, but today it’s the turn of…
Say the words ‘sexualisation of children’, and emotive arguments blaze forwards (especially from our friends at the Daily Mail). The issue is so contentious and…
OK, so this is supposed to be an education blog, but you know what? I am going to write a special mini-rant. This post is…
Over the last couple of weeks, BBC Two has been broadcasting ‘The Big School Lottery’ – all about primary children applying to secondary school, hoping…
It’s Mr Woodhead again! The former chief inspector of schools has provided yet another source of wrongness in his answers to questions sent to him.…
Chris Woodhead used to be the Chief Inspector of Schools. Bear this in mind as I continue. Woodhead has written in today’s Sunday Times, and…
Janet Daley claims that the condition of the state education system is ‘pretty much on a par as a national peril with a campaign of dirty bombs’. Such a claim is insulting and just plain wrong.
So I have one more Religious Studies exam left in my second year of university. But I’ve chosen to set up a blog about Education…
In a previous blog I mentioned the lesson on family roles, but didn’t explain it that well. But I think it would be worth explaining.…