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'Bac' blamed for cuts in arts subjects
Schools cut arts curriculum after ministers call for more students to take languages and humanitiesScores of secondary schools have made a snap decision to narrow pupils' choice of arts subjects for...
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Law: How to avoid a career in photocopying | Alex Aldridge
Law firms are taking on more of their trainees but many pitfalls lie ahead for the would-be lawyerGood news for those seeking lavishly remunerated photocopying careers: big law firms are discarding...
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Career advice on A-level choices lacking
As debate continues about preferred A-levels, one graduate recounts his experienceMany people will state that Russell group universities shunning pupils who choose "lesser" A-levels is not news; indeed...
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Cribsheet 07.02.11
How should schools feed inquiring minds?And so the education diet begins. The Russell Group has stepped forward, like some Gillian MacKeith of the brain, and decreed that the optimum nutrition for the...
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Does Henley's report on music education strike the right note?
The recommendations on the future of music in schools are realistic, positive, and bold. But what happens next is keyIt's finally here. Darren Henley's report on music education in England. Have a read...
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Government to create extra 100,000 apprenticeships
Funding of vocational training will increase by £222m a yearVince Cable, the business secretary, today announced plans to create an extra 100,000 apprenticeships. The initiative comes as a new report...
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Joined to Seamus Heaney's Human Chain
The winning essay from this year's TS Eliot prize for poetry Shadowing SchemeMadeleine Chalmers of The Abbey School, Reading is the winner of this year's TS Eliot prize for poetry Shadowing Scheme. The...
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Teacher suspended over claim she told school pupils to join student protests
Sue Caldwell of Friern Barnet school accused of encouraging pupils to skip school to protest against rising tuition feesA teacher has been suspended after a parent complained that she had encouraged...
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Cuts reduce teaching in Scottish schools
One council considers 4-day week, while another puts support staff in charge instead of teachersParents and unions have reacted with dismay to proposals by two Scottish councils to reduce the teaching...
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London College of Fashion MA show 2011
Taking to the catwalk with designs by students from London College of Fashion
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Why the historically black Howard University shouldn't cull classics
Why classics – and the deep engagement with ideas its study brings – should be defended as a subject suitable for allA letter in the current Times Literary Supplement – alas, I can't find it online –...
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Music high flyers to be encouraged to become teachers
Recommendation part of a government review which aims to have all children learn a musical instrument in schoolThe most talented graduates of conservatoires will be encouraged to begin their careers by...
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Feline frisky: the science of why cats roll
Both male and female cats display rolling behaviour, researchers report, usually in the context of matingDomestic cats roll. Oh, they roll and roll and roll – not constantly, but often enough that the...
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Hidden tigers: why do Chinese children do so well at school?
Children of Chinese origin, whether rich or poor, do incredibly well in school – but hardly any studies have been done to find out whyIt seems a hugely under-researched phenomenon within English...
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Do an apprenticeship: bags of money and no graduate debt
Despite university fees and the earnings potential of trades, raising the status of apprenticeships is a battleRichard Sagar did well in his Scottish highers, but for him university was definitely not...
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Michael Green obituary
Michael Green, who has died sudden ly of heart failure aged 68, was a key member of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at the University of Birmingham. This inter-disciplinary project,...
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Douglas Woodhouse obituary
Social scientist and pioneer of marital studies in BritainDouglas Woodhouse, who has died aged 90, was a pioneer of marital studies in Britain. He led the Institute of Marital Studies in London from...
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Michael Gove is failing our schools | Andy Burnham
In his obsessive drive to push through schools reform, Michael Gove is neglecting what really matters. Parliament must stop himMichael Gove will ask MPs this week to give him more than 50 new powers to...
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Teacher suspended over fees demonstrations
Parent alleged that Sue Caldwell enouraged pupils to miss school and attend protestsA teacher has been suspended after a parent complained that she had encouraged pupils to miss school to join the...
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'Let them buy their own books'
School library closures cause all kinds of outrageRos Asquith
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