Education

The author of a powerful new novel set in a comprehensive school explains why A-level results convey little about a pupil’s education

Mastering facts, memorising rules, learning poems by heart have come to be regarded, not as enlarging a child’s world but as positively crushing his or her spirit

Universities have been transformed into the most Marxist, postmodernist, anti-American, anti-military and anti-capitalist institution in American society

This month’s small charity making a big difference is The European Roma Rights Centre

This month’s small organisation making a big difference is Tostan

‘The one education reform no government has tried is putting parents firmly in control’

The academic world has lost its way. We need a University of Life that teaches us how to be wiser

If there are children suffering from test-related stress it is their teachers, not the tests, that must bear the blame

Wolf Totem is a disconcerting mixture of nationalism, lupine metaphors and nostalgia for the age of nomads. But what does the novel’s runaway success tell us of the aspirations of the new China?

Higher education has been hijacked by the quangocracy: teaching is neglected, research is distorted by bogus assessment methods, and trust in professional judgement is gone