Education

‘One student identified himself as working class and a member of the Communist Party. I was, however, surprised to see a copy of Roger Scruton’s Meaning of Conservatism bulging out of his satchel’

Britain’s best universities are second only to America’s in the world, thanks to their legal and financial autonomy from government

Our most ambitious state schools are successfully challenging the suffocating idea that social class determines educational success

A generation of child-centred, progressive teachers will have to retire or be retrained if the past is to come alive again in schools

The London Boxing Academy Community Project provided an opportunity for expelled teens to escape the cycle of benefit culture and gang life — its innovation should be celebrated

‘A couple I know earn $236,000 between them, so why are they so deeply in debt? Their problem, in a word, is education’

A teacher reveals how 50 years of creeping moral relativism have left him helpless to turn his pupils into decent members of society

The progressive orthodoxy in British education has left one in five school-leavers functionally illiterate. That ethos needs to change