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John Bald: Gove has brutally highlighted the 'toxic nonsense' at the heart of the teaching of education
5+ hour, 14+ min ago (244+ words) John Bald is a former Ofsted inspector. He is Vice-President of the Conservative Education Society. Michael Gove’s comments on Hilary Cremin’s Rewilding Education are the most critical I’ve ever read about a book. Her lumping together of the enlightenment, modernism,…...
John Oxley: British education isn't so much leaning in the PISA rankings - it's learned to fall over
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (387+ words) John Oxley is a consultant, writer, and broadcaster. His SubStack is Joxley Writes. If Shakespeare were a political commentator, he might have observed that the bad things governments do live after them, and that the good is oft interred with…...
John Redwood: University may shape one's views but 'the university of life' - and work - will really solidify them
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (134+ words) Lord Redwood is a leading commentator on the economy and modern politics, a former industrialist, founder of an investment management company and a distinguished fellow of All Souls College Oxford It is a strange myth that the three years people…...
Diana Beech: Burnham's hard hat obsession belongs in the 1970s
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (882+ words) Diana Beech is former policy adviser to three Conservative Universities and Science Ministers. She is now Director of the Finsbury Institute – a public policy hub at City St George’s, University of London. One of Kemi Badenoch’s sharpest criticisms of the…...
Kamran Balayev: Schools are struggling with the fallout from the Online Safety Act
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (728+ words) Kamran Balayev is an international legal and policy expert, business leader, and former London mayoral candidate. Big tech often argues that the issues which arise from their platforms require collective responses. But that argument can obscure a far more uncomfortable…...
Sam Williamson: Labour's work experience plans are a sticking plaster solution
1+ week, 6+ day ago (444+ words) Sam Williamson is a writer and a former research intern at the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS). His Substack can be found here. I spent 2024 working for the Get Ahead Programme, finding placements with local employers for students identified as…...
John Bald: There's something rotten in 'the groves of academe"
2+ week, 2+ day ago (96+ words) John Bald is a former Ofsted inspector. He is Vice-President of the Conservative Education Society. The truth may well have been that he was not capable of providing it. Professor Sir Simon Baron Cohen – who himself should be in sackcloth…...
Rafe Fletcher: Britain needs a National Day
3+ week, 2+ day ago (409+ words) Rafe Fletcher is the founder of CWG. I watched my daughter perform We Are Singapore as part of her school’s National Day celebrations. “This is my family, these are my friends, We are Singapore, Singaporeans.” Perhaps not as existentially stirring…...
Will Hosking: Bring back a classical liberal education system
3+ week, 2+ day ago (226+ words) Will Hosking is an intern for Civitas Much of the contemporary issues that we see around the overproduction of graduates is attributed to Tony Blair and his promise to get 50 per cent of young people to attend university. This stemmed…...
Joe Shalam: Gove did not create the NEET crisis??? but Britain's obsession with university must end
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (636+ words) Joe Shalam, policy director at the Centre for Social Justice. Lucy Powell has saved Alan Milburn the trouble of finishing his independent review of youth worklessness. Like a Scooby-Doo villain, the true culprit behind the Neet crisis has been unceremoniously…...