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education and culture
Is there no room left for reflection?
Times Higher Education Supplement,
14 September 2007
'Research' and 'scholarship' are not the same thing. Funding-council culture has seriously devalued the latter.
The distorted vision of Dearing
Times Higher Education Supplement,
10 August 2007
Students are now customers, demanding satisfaction and skills. Whatever happened to learning?
Making a Balls-up of education
spiked,
11 July 2007
As schools minister Ed Balls calls for lessons in emotional and economic wellbeing, it’s clear the Brown government is as philistine as the Blairites.
This principle is not negotiable
Times Higher Education Supplement,
6 July 2007
If monitoring Muslim groups threatens free speech, then surely boycotting Israeli academics does too.
Hijacking education
spiked,
12 June 2007
From global warming alarmism dressed up as Geography to 'happiness teaching' through yoga: the classroom has been hijacked by zealous campaigners who care little for pedagogy.
Tick yes to raise the standard
Times Higher Education Supplement,
25 May 2007
Standardised marking will be no fairer than what we have now and will lead to a grading system that discounts individuals' achievements
I refuse to jump through hoops
Times Higher Education Supplement,
13 April 2007
Performance management won't make universities more effective; instead it will distract academics from their work and breed institutional cynicism
Time to get off the treadmill
Times Higher Education Supplement,
2 March 2007
Each day brings another invitation to some pointless conference. We should start giving them all the cold shoulder.
We need teachers, not amateur therapists
spiked,
11 July 2006
Schools have no business teaching children how to be ‘happy’
Excitement no money can buy
The Times Higher Educational Supplement,
16 June 2006
If we spark students' idealism and curiosity, they may begin to see us as more than paid servants.
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