Schools
Leading article: Workload worries are well-founded
Published: 19 April 2007
Cracks are beginning to emerge in the agreement between the Government and teachers' leaders to reduce teachers' workload, according to the conferences of both the National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers.
Education Quandary
Published: 19 April 2007
West meets East: Can school partnerships help prevent war?
Published: 19 April 2007
Independent schools: Look beneath the surface at open days
Published: 19 April 2007
David Willetts: We need to teach pupils the great books
Published: 12 April 2007
What our national curriculum should contain has always been a hotly debated topic. No more so than in English literature, where the problem of which authors, books and plays pupils should study has always caught the imagination.
Education Quandary
Published: 12 April 2007
Bullying: Justice is better than vengeance
Published: 12 April 2007
Leading article: Policy mustn't get lost in translation
Published: 12 April 2007
The Government deserves some credit for its drive to improve language teaching in primary schools. It is certainly right to support Lord Dearing's recommendation that foreign languages should be a compulsory part of the curriculum from the age of seven.
The Big Question: Easter's over - and the children are still on holiday. Must it be like this?
Published: 10 April 2007
Why are we asking this question now?
Francis Beckett: Why the academies programme is unfair
Published: 05 April 2007
For years, schools and those who work in them have been asking for more money. Now, the Government is spending an estimated £5bn on the academies programme, yet it has caused resentment and bitterness everywhere.
From ghetto to college? Here's a route to follow
Published: 05 April 2007
Leading article: 'Coasting' schools should be watched
Published: 05 April 2007
The announcement by the Government that it intends to put more pressure on schools that are coasting has not met with universal support from the teaching profession. Teachers' leaders argue that there is enough accountability within the system already without the new measure.
Education Quandary
Published: 05 April 2007
Leading article: Headship: we need an inquiry
Published: 29 March 2007
The news that more and more schools are having to offer golden hellos and enhanced salaries to recruit head teachers is a symptom of the growing leadership crisis that the state sector is facing. Figures show nearly half the country's head teachers will be approaching retirement age by the end of the decade and that it is becoming increasingly difficult to persuade enough senior teachers to volunteer for the top job.
Bethan Marshall: Why you can't mark essays with computers
Published: 29 March 2007
M Forster wrote a short story in which the protagonist's life was dominated by computers. He lived and breathed them, stuck as he was in a cell where the only form of communication with the outside world was via a computer screen. Forster's point, as the character eventually broke free, was that there was more to life than can be found in technology. While we are, today, far from repeating Forster's world, there is a danger that we might make schools, and the examination system in particular, too dependent on the latest available software.
Ballet for everyone: Pupils get a chance to dance
Published: 29 March 2007
Education Quandary
Published: 29 March 2007
Healthy eating? Take a bite of this advice
Published: 29 March 2007
Modern languages: Songs and stories make French lessons fun
Published: 29 March 2007
Man on a mission: Can Matthew Taylor fix our schools?
Published: 22 March 2007
Education Quandary
Published: 22 March 2007
How opera is being repackaged to appeal to young schoolchildren
Published: 22 March 2007
You could be forgiven for associating the Royal Opera House (ROH) more with the over-50s than with the under-15s. But if you did, then you might be surprised to learn that the ROH's education department reaches out every year to 93,000 people of all ages and backgrounds to engage new generations with opera and ballet.
Dame Evelyn Glennie: We must make sure that every child has the opportunity to benefit from a musical education
Published: 22 March 2007
The question I am asked the most is why did I choose music and in particular, percussion.
How young drummers can turn professional
Published: 22 March 2007
"Shout, drums, dance, dance, dance!" commanded Rimbaud. And from the Bamanan djembe through the sambistas to rock'n'roll and drum'n'bass, in fear and passion we turn to that primal throb, that ancestral pulse, the drums.
Music in schools: Making sure talent doesn't slip through the net
Published: 22 March 2007
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