Education

2025-04-21

This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare: The rich ones, at least, could worry about their mission to educate the masses over preserving the size of their endowment.

2025-04-19

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard: Perhaps the letter with their ludicrous demands was sent only by accident (or perhaps they just didn’t expect the pushback?).

Harvard’s Decision to Resist Trump Is ā€˜of Momentous Significance’: ‘…rejecting the Trump administration’s demands on hiring, admissions and curriculum’

Barking at female staff and blocking doorways: Teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools: ‘A rise in misogyny and racism is flooding UK schools as pupils ape the behaviour of figures such as Donald Trump and Andrew Tate after exposure through social media and online gaming, teachers have warned.’

2025-04-10

Half of England’s state secondaries forced to cut staff in budget squeeze, poll finds: As well as other activities - this needs fixing urgently.

2025-04-02

Most graduate degrees in analytics are scams: I had wondered.

2025-02-03

A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A ā€œTuring Testā€ case study: The 100% AI-written psychology essays weren’t detected as such by the graders, and they typically scored higher than the human ones.

2024-12-31

Is Immersion the Best Way to Learn a Language?: It’s helpful, but only if you proactively engage with it.

2024-12-28

Revealed: 1.5m children in England studying in unfit school buildings: Years of insufficient budgets mean that buildings used for services like education, health and justice in the UK are literally crumbling.

2024-12-25

Ā£100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support: Only 1.2% of council’s decisions to refuse to provide special educational funding for children are supported by courts when appealed.

2024-12-25: Councils spend over £100 million trying to avoid providing special educational needs support

2024-12-18: Noticed that Mimo, one of the ‘Duolingo but for coding’ educational apps I sometimes …

2024-11-24: The board games the CIA uses to train its agents

2024-11-21

ā€˜Real nastiness’: therapist training courses in UK can be ā€˜toxic’ and need regulating, say students: It’s unfortunate how unregulated some healthcare sectors that we appear to need now more than ever are.

2024-11-19: No religious liberty on offer from the Office of Religious Liberty

2024-06-22: Louisiana schools are now legally required to display the biblical Ten Commandments

2024-04-11: Started learning how to be a ‘Full-Stack Developer’ with Mimo.

2024-02-19: Apparently even more British children have smartphones than I’d have guessed. Ofcom data says …

2024-02-15: Another 'abuse of power': thousands of students wrongly deported from the UK for supposedly cheating on a test

2023-07-08: In “I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a cop” Adam Mastroianni makes the case …