First Thoughts: The classroom culture wars, GB News founders, and cricket gets an update
Boris Johnson’s government has opened a new front in its culture wars: teacher training.
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Why Scotland is facing an exam grades scandal for the second year running
Teachers are furious with the Scottish government for imposing a system that could lead to results as unfair as last year’s,…
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Why GCSEs should be abolished
Internal assessment by teachers worked perfectly well last year – so let’s keep that system and call it a School…
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Letter of the week: Remembering Ruskin
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How the Chinese government is buying its way into UK universities
From funding professorships to censoring students, the Chinese state has more influence on British educational establishments than we realise.
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Jess Phillips’s Diary: What Batley and Spen means for Labour, Euros fever and how Gavin Williamson failed my kids
I wouldn’t put Gavin Williamson in charge of a pot plant – the fact that our Prime Minister left him…
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Will chaos in English schools really end with the Covid-19 bubble system?
The self-isolation of pupil bubbles will end on 19 July – but it is unclear whether its replacement will be enough to…
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Revealed: Bristol academic under investigation for alleged anti-Semitism received £400k of public funds
David Miller, a professor who accused Jewish student societies of being “directed by Israel”, received government money to conduct his…
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