BY JOE NUTT When Bridget Phillipson’s excruciatingly embarrassing Reign of Error comes to its inevitably ignominious end, all those seriously and professionally involved in thinking about policy relating to schools in the UK, need to grasp the opportunity her failure has dramatically exposed. She will have left a bomb site behind her. Her only achievement has been to dramatically confirm the reality that schools are … Continue reading Reforming Schooling
BY JOE NUTT Professionals who have to know these things to do their job, know that Wales has quickly followed Scotland in becoming an international educational basket case. The worrying question now is, are England’s schools about to follow them into the trash? Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence started the rot. I was there at the birth, physically in the same offices, and watched the monster … Continue reading Stop Exploiting Schools
BY STEWART SLATER Modelled on Jay Nordlinger’s “Impromptus” in National Review, I’ve written another ‘Reflections’ piece which is a series of paragraphs on various ideas: Stewart Slater works in Finance. He invites you to join him at his website. Continue reading April Reflections
BY STEWART SLATER The Columnists’ Paradox is that the more one writes, the less one need be read. We all have our relatively fixed biases and a reasonably finite store of stories and references, and it does not take too long (longer than my own writing “career” to date though, obviously…) for those to become sufficiently well-known to readers that they can predict with almost … Continue reading Awfully Clever
