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Student journalist makes her mark
Budding journalist Anneka Masih, left, really does have ink in her veins. She has had the shorthand outline of her name tattooed on her ankle. Anneka, 22, who is taking the MA journalism course at...
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Don't scrap citizenship lessons, teachers plead
Curriculum review, launched today by Michael Gove, could spell end to compulsory citizenship classesEngland would return to being the least politically literate country in the developed world if...
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This government talks about empathy while cutting the cuddles already there |...
Graham Allen's early years report makes the loathsome leap that the poor are worse at parenting while failing to see why that may beThe headline that's been drawn from Labour MP Graham Allen's report...
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Is the EMA really a handout above criticism?
Reforming the Education Maintenance Allowance would not be a straightforward attack on the poorBlind acceptance that all benefits are good is not healthy, especially when the issue is so controversial....
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Cribsheet daily 20.01.11
Facts and figures, dates and drills: a new school curriculum is on its way"I like Gove's new syllabus: algebra, divinity, rhetoric, sewing for the girls and a school trip to the workhouse....
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Gove's approach to history is contradictory
The education secretary says he's non-prescripive, yet he wants to set out the "essential knowledge" pupils should acquireIt is highly desirable that the national curriculum should be subject to...
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Sponsored degrees may only churn out corporate clones | Alex Aldridge
Should we applaud KPMG's BSc course at Durham University, or is it part of a worrying pattern?"What use are memories of the sun rising over Ayers Rock to a lawyer?" asked the comedian David Mitchell...
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What am I planning to do after graduation? Panic | Reni Eddo-Lodge
My generation is haunted by the spectre of unemployment to such an extent that many of us are now terrified of graduatingI'll let you in on a little secret – I'm terrified of graduating. The growing...
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National curriculum review puts emphasis on facts
Michael Gove says an academic education will best equip students for the 'knowledge industries of the future', as teachers condemn plans as elitist and outdatedHistory and geography lessons should...
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What do you think about teachers? No, don't tell me, please, don't tell me
Parties are full of people talking about what's wrong with our schools. If only Fielding could resist rising to their bait…Do you enjoy having opinions? Do you have lots? Big, booming, confident...
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Will Michael Gove listen to a Talking Head?
The band's former frontman David Byrne says cutting arts in schools is 'narrow-minded' since the benefits are provenA cheer from the sidelines for those battling to keep a creative element in the...
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National curriculum review puts emphasis on facts
Schools minister Nick Gibb explains the theory behind education secretary Michael Gove's review, while Gove himself attempts a science experiment at a London school
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Brian Greaves obituary
My brother, Brian Greaves, who has died aged 76, was a product of the merit-based, free educational system without which many of our generation could not have gone to university. He repaid the...
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Norman Evans obituary
A radical teacher, he promoted the value of experiential learningNorman Evans, who has died aged 87, helped devise and promote a route by which many mature students who lack A-levels but have wide life...
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Cribsheet daily: 21.01.11
The fight to save EMAs goes on, and should the government move towards a single teaching qualification?MPs haven't given up the fight on EMAsThe House of Commons Education committee is to hold an...
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Headteachers use the internet to check up on staff, say union officials
Teachers who post photos of "inappropriate behaviour" social networking sites could face disciplinary actionHeadteachers are trawling the internet to find evidence of teachers' bad behaviour outside...
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Ed Balls the bruiser is the man to confront these Tory lies | Polly Toynbee
The figures are awful; the government is being found out. Now Labour must stop navel-gazing and come out fightingAll parties are haunted by their history. Labour was confronted with two dark memories...
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Use your MBA to open doors to jobs in the charity sector
Many charities now look for the financial and management expertise an MBA can bringAn MBA, for understandable reasons, is often seen as a corporate qualification, for "suits" who want to get into...
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What to do with a degree in earth studies or marine studies?
Floods, tsunamis and disasters are rarely off the news agenda, so those with a degree in earth or marine studies should be in great demandRecent floods, tsunamis and disasters such as the BP oil spill...
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Letters: A caricatured view of poor parents
Zoe Williams' excellent critique of the latest report on poverty and parenting by Graham Allen alerts us to a deficit that is overlooked in the focus on the failings of poor parents (Why talk of...
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