Inside Education
Testing and assessment: We will fail him on the beaches
A computerised system is increasingly being used to mark exam papers. It's a good job Churchill wasn't being examined...
Time for change: How a young woman plans to shake up the school system
Rachel Wolf has helped shape the Tories' policy and has already set up her own think tank. Is she the face of the next Conservative decade?
- Steve McCormack: Why do we spend so much money on schools?
- 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?
- 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.
Bob Burgess: I hope student records make degree classes obsolete
In the next academic year, many universities will pilot new records of student achievement that could replace our 200-year-old system of degree classification.
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He has no need to play God. On Greek mythological lines, he is one
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We're back to propping up rotten regimes. Stability is more important than values
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