A Seattle Times article on McKinsey & Company’s strategy for public education clearly demonstrates what misery and trouble is in store for UK education if the management consultants get their way. “POP quiz: (We hope you’ve been paying attention because this is a high-stakes test; wrong answers may lead to the dismantling of our schools.) [...]
Continuing our investigations into Teach First, it is good to know that this charitable organisation has powerful backing. The founder and CEO at Teach First is Brett Wigdortz. Our Brett has no training in education: he’s not a teacher, policy expert or researcher. He is a businessman, and after gaining an MA in Economics and [...]
Although the UK media have not ventured to challenge the proposed cuts to Arts and Humanities set out by Browne-nose and Chums, other media outlets around the world have. One such outlet is The Australian and an article by Christina Slade, dean of arts and social sciences at City University London, entitled ‘No Art to [...]
…and it gets worse still: “After Day X: 28 Nov Student Coordination After the day of action… NATIONAL STUDENT COORDINATION 12noon – 5pm Sunday 28th November Birkbeck College, Central London, WC1E 7HX Initiated by Education Activist Network, supported by NCAFC and ULU Student Assembly. Wednesday 24th November will go down as a day that shook [...]
And it justs gets worse for the Lib-Tory Coalition: “The following universities are currently being occupied (please let us know if our list is out of date). It would be worth paying a visit to any occupations in your area, and certainly sending messages of solidarity. And students, several of these occupations have issued calls [...]
Our recent Teach First article was warmly received and on the back of this we thought we’d investigate this charity a little further just to see what makes this organisation tick. We will be publishing a number of posts in the coming weeks, but stumbled upon something so juicy that we thought it couldn’t wait. [...]
Funny to think that David Willetts just doesn’t get it. The BBC report that Universities Minister David Willetts thought ‘students had not seemed to have understood the proposals on fees – and that they would not have to pay the higher fees up-front.’ David, David, students and their parents can’t afford to pay tuition fees [...]
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What’s not to love about OFSTED’s Christine Gilbert. The White Paper on Education is upon us and no better way to keep the inspectors in business than to tell everyone how bad everything is. What a load of nonsense. The only thing that’s really wrong with the UK’s education system – as we have said [...]
Beeb education journos are again showing a true lack of ability when it comes to appraising ‘research’. Perhaps it isn’t their job to check the quality of research but they wouldn’t write about a medical research paper based on bad research so why is education research any different. This time the Beeb tell us that [...]
The story of Oxford University’s supposed support for tuition fees is again indicative of the terrible state of UK education journalism. First things first, this wasn’t an Oxford Uni vote as the headline makes out. This was a Christ Church College vote. One of 38 colleges at Oxford University. Secondly, out of a student body [...]
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