Inside Education
'You can be beautiful and still be a feminist'
Girls’ school leader defends pupils who want to look attractive.
Steve McCormack: Why do we spend so much money on schools?
Like all public sectors, the education world is holding its breath to see where and when the spending axe will fall. The ubiquitous question: who will suffer when the funding tap – free flowing since the early Blair days – is squeezed? But I have a different question. Are we, in our blinkered British bubble, deluding ourselves in assuming that less money will necessarily mean a less effective education system? And the reverse applies equally. Does more money necessarily mean more learning?
- Education Quandary: I am very physical in how I teach drama. But my new headteacher has told me to change the way I work. Do I really have to?
- Time for change: How a young woman plans to shake up the school system
- Niel McLean: Technology can bridge the gap between parents and schools
- Leading Article: We need a crackdown
New chapter: How college are helping to change people's lives
The upcoming Colleges Week will highlight the many benefits that college life offers.
Leading Article: Good start for fees review
Lord Mandelson has managed to secure an impressive line-up for his review of university funding, which is expected to recommended that top-up fees be increased. Lord Browne, who spent his life in BP, rising from lowly graduate recruit to CEO, is widely admired for his expertise and will be ably supported, among others, by Sir Michael Barber, the former head of Tony Blair's delivery unit, the economist Diane Coyle, formerly of this newspaper, and Professor David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham University and one of the cleverest minds in higher education. Moreover he has managed to keep the NUS happy by including a young person, Ranjay Naik, who used be on the English Secondary Students Association.
|
|
Most popular
Read
1 The 50 Best Christmas Gifts for Men
2 Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again
4 The 50 Best Christmas Gifts for Women
5 Shortlisted: Football managers who never get the job
6 Ain't life fadtastic? The A to Z of fads
7 Stephen King: Gold prices are a dead giveaway
8 The dirtiest players in football
9 'We did it to avenge our fallen comrades'
10 Gaddafi's night in with '500 attractive girls' - and the Koran
11 Now you can have what she’s having...
12 Artistry and technology combine to create 'hyper-photos'
13 Exposed: the most intimate secret of erotic blogger Belle de Jour
15 James Lawton: Pacquiao and Mayweather can put on a show worthy of Ali or Leonard
Emailed
1 Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again
2 Now you can have what she’s having...
4 Actor Edward Woodward dies aged 79
5 Scientists create test-tube sperm
6 Robert Fisk: Plots, sense and nonsense: the view from the post bag
7 Where are they now?: David Nish
8 It's official: Men really are the weaker sex
9 The Birth of Pleasure, by Carol Gilligan
10 The 50 Best Christmas Gifts for Men
11 Benetton death row ads outrage America
12 The Independent Food & Drink Awards 2009
13 More Gadgets & Tech Articles">More Gadgets & Tech Articles
14 Thousands of voter details on stolen council laptop
15 Meet the polyamorists – a growing band of people who believe that more lovers equals more love
Commented
1Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again
2Bruce Anderson: Why the public are wrong over our mission in Afghanistan
3'Cancel the Queen's speech ? and save democracy'
4BNP leader to stand against minister
5Nick Clegg: Don't waste our time... bring forward real reform
6'Female viagra' find boosts women's sex drive
7Countdown to Copenhagen: The President's lonely dilemma
8Education officials spent £10m on first-class fares
Columnist Comments
• Mary Dejevsky: Yes we can! (Slash the budget deficit)
Once you begin to look, the cuts just start rolling in
• Dominic Lawson: Let's stand up for Michael McIntyre
Luvvie-land has long had contempt for bourgeois values
• Tom Sutcliffe: Belle de Jour's over-complicated life
If it was so enjoyable and so well paid, why did she stop back in 2004?
|
|
Register for free to find your perfect partner with Independent Singles