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  • 6 Jun 2013
    Professor Ted Cantle: advocate of bridges not barriers

    Professor Ted Cantle, Chair of the iCoCo Foundation and a leading national expert on community cohesion and intercultural relations, has joined the Accord Coalition for inclusive education.

  • 6 Jun 2013
    Catholic schools body in Northern Ireland wants to end discrimination

    The Council for Catholic Maintained Schools has called for laws allowing faith schools to discriminate on religious grounds in the employment of teachers to end.

  • 25 Apr 2013
    Gove and Truss: an impoverished view of education

    The Department for Education and Skills appears to be channelling for some of Charles Dicken's more grotesque characters. Gradgrind Gove has long been preaching his gospel of 'facts' and rote learning. Now he has decided that children and teachers are not working hard enough and has called for longer school days and shorter holidays. His sidekick M'Choakumchild Truss, not to be outdone in ensuring that our youngest citizens should not be permitted to slack, has this week criticised nurseries which allow toddlers to “run around with no sense of purpose.”

  • 5 Apr 2013
    Class: It's about power and wealth, not tastes in music

    This week, I completed a survey on the BBC website to discover which class I belong to. In reality, I don't have much doubt about which class I belong to, so I was really discovering more about the people who designed the survey than I was about myself.

  • 3 Feb 2013
    Cuts and increased privatisation pose threat to education

    Trade Union Congress General Secretary Frances O'Grady has warned of the threat to education from increasing privatisation and continuing austerity.

  • 1 Jan 2013
    Women's education and health workers killed in Pakistan

    Seven development workers in north-west Pakistan, six of them women working at a health and education project, have been shot dead.

  • 18 Dec 2012
    Creativity, academia and Critical Religion

    It is widely acknowledged among those who still care that academia in the UK is in very serious trouble, says Dr Michael Marten from the University of Stirling. The most infamous embodiment of the current malaise is a mechanism imposed upon universities by successive Westminster governments: a system of ‘research assessment’ driven by an ideology of neo-liberal commodification. Alternative perspectives and mechanisms are badly needed, he says.

  • 17 Dec 2012
    Civic groups call for an end to religious selection in state schools

    A wide range of civic groups have written to the Secretary of State for Education, urging the end of religious selection in state-funded schools.

  • 14 Dec 2012
    Alternatives to a 'military ethos' for schools
  • 14 Dec 2012
    Criticism for Gove's plans to promote militarism in schools

    Michael Gove's £2 million programme to place former service personnel in British schools has been roundly criticised by faith, peace and civic groups.