Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Sunday, 27 May 2018

Unpopularism (some policy thoughts for conservatives)

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There's a media caricature of conservatism as being a sort of red-faced, reactionary creed. And, at times, we do sound like the angry ...
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Monday, 26 February 2018

Free markets are better for fairness and equality than the state

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Yet again we have evidence of how systems dominated by non-free, constrained or licenced systems (or else directly controlled by the state)...
Wednesday, 9 August 2017

Attacking the privately-educated for their success is the worst sort of envy politics

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There's been a renewed - renewed as in the record has jumped and we're hearing the same bit of the tune again - attention to the su...
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Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Why London dominates (or how the London problem isn't really a London problem)

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Aaron Renn picks up on how tech superstar, Peter Thiel sort of accidently exposed the truth about Chicago (in Chicago): “If you are a very ...
Thursday, 25 August 2016

Bradford schools - how many children will we let down before we get it right?

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So someone shares this article on Twitter. It's a story about an 'A' Level student who didn't quite get the grades to go to ...
Monday, 8 August 2016

Grammar schools aren't the solution but they're better than doing nothing

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Were it not for our national debate (I'm being kind here) about health, I would describe the current grammar schools argument as the ...
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Monday, 1 August 2016

Creating a Yorkshire Powerhouse - it's down to us not the government in London

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My eponymous great-grandfather was born in East London. Tragically he died young - in his thirties - leaving a widow and young childr...
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Monday, 14 March 2016

Quote of the day - on teachers who blog and tweet

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**** A quite superb little article from Andrew Old contains this gem of a paragraph: But, of course, there are many reasons why teachers...
Friday, 4 December 2015

Things that aren't really true.

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**** Like this... The most important factor is women’s education. Already today, an Ethiopian woman with secondary education has on ave...
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Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Knowledge gives power (and don't ever forget it) - a comment on criticism of Michaela Community College

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**** Michaela Community School is one of those free schools so detested by those who prefer the conformity and straightjacket of a rigidly...
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Sunday, 5 April 2015

No English child, not even the very poorest, lives in "Victorian condidtions"

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**** The airwaves have been filled with that traditional Easter refrain of teacher trade unions moaning about their lot. And amongst this ...
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Monday, 23 February 2015

Why do Bradford's schools do so badly?

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**** Perhaps the most worrying thing about Bradford is the continuing underperformance of the District's schools - certainly relative ...
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Sunday, 15 February 2015

We're all going on a soma holiday. On the teaching of happiness.

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"you do look glum! What you need is a gramme of soma." Many years ago I sang in a folk choir at church (I'm guessing th...
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Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Schools: we should focus on attainment not religion

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**** British Values. I'm not really alone in struggling to understand what these mysterious things might be especially when they are s...
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Sunday, 11 January 2015

Taking schools policy out of political control means bureaucracy not better education

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**** We hear it all the time . A former permanent secretary at the Department for Education, Sir David says there should be no more maj...
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Thursday, 1 January 2015

What on God's earth is the 'Social Integration Commission'?

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**** OK I checked it out : The Commission has three main aims: 1) Explore the nature and extent of social contact between people of ...
Thursday, 11 December 2014

In which their representatives remind us that teacher trade unions are bad for education

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**** The regional branch of Ofsted has published some mildly critical comments about Bradford's schools. And it's true that our sc...