Education
Cowardice in high places
When the Archbishop of Canterbury can advocate the removal of church monuments, a great legacy of huge national importance is under threat
Libraries and laureates: a study in necessity
Without school libraries, boys and girls will grow up in households where the idea of owning books, or even borrowing, seems an increasingly fantastical one
Schools must fight to defend freedom of expression
The cowardice of senior staff at Batley Grammar should be a lesson to all educationalists about the importance of defending open discussion
Schools gone woke: a view from America
In a warning to teachers around the world, one American teacher opens up about the invasion of woke orthodoxy in the education sector
Is the age of the single-sex boarding school over?
As Winchester College prepares to turn co-educational, Alexander Larman asks if single-sex boarding schools may soon become a thing of the past
New universities in the early Eighties: an elegy
Steve Morris reflects on his time at the University of East Anglia with his contemporary, Iain Dale
Reality check: mathematics is not racist
Engaging with students on the history of mathematics would do far more than pretending that the subject abounds with racism
Have schools lost their true purpose?
Schools have become too focussed on training talent in service of the economy to the detriment of individual and collective flourishing
You can’t ‘level up’ Oxbridge
It is high time we ally elite education, irrespective of background, with the service of the public good
Back to school: The urgent need for normality
In the obsession with infection metrics, we seem to have lost sight of what’s important about school itself