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Fair play to whoever is producing or editing the BBC’s “Rethink” series on BBC radio, and managed to insert an item on education into the Radio 4 Today programme this week. This is a series that asks what changes we … Continue reading
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“The Bakers rose through education. They thought education is the most important thing in life” – Kenneth Baker “Baker Days” were/are the days set aside for teachers’ in-service professional training. This week, thanks to BBC Radio 4, we learned something … Continue reading
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BBC Radio Four’s “The Educators” returned this week with a trip to Harlem to interview Dave Levin, co-founder of the KIPP Charter schools in the USA. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06ptw79 These schools were set up in economically deprived areas of the US with … Continue reading
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Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme today contained a superficial item on ‘brain science’ and on human emotions – hanging a discussion on a new Pixar movie (plug) called Inside Out. The Guardian’s review of the movie tells us “It’s about what’s … Continue reading
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Last week, thanks to @SurrealAnarchy on Twitter, we read this article by Robin Alexander on “Character Education”. http://www.consider-ed.org.uk/education-election-true-grit/ It’s a thoughtful article that resonates with much of what 3Di has said over many years about the importance of personal and … Continue reading
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Dr Naomi Appleton specialises in early Buddhist thought. In this Radio Four programme, one of the excellent OU/BBC History of Ideas series, she outlines the way in which suffering arises from craving, and ways in which we can learn to … Continue reading
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An article appeared on the Guardian’s website at 00.05 this morning, but you’ll have to look quite hard to find it – in spite of its important content: Nicky Morgan urges ‘curriculum for life’ http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/11/nicky-morgan-curriculum-to-deal-with-sexting-and-revenge-porn It’s unfortunate that the Guardian … Continue reading
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Still feeling dismayed by the hard-line ‘traditionalist’ element at the London Festival of Education (#LFE15) we invite readers to insert the word ‘schools’ wherever ‘universities’ and ‘higher education’ occur in this recent Guardian editorial: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/27/guardian-view-on-higher-education-beyond-bean-counters The noble idea that a … Continue reading
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The thing that became increasingly obvious during this year’s London Festival of Education last Saturday is that the ‘traditionalists’ still don’t get it. After all that’s been said and done about the developmental and learning needs of children and young … Continue reading
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Simon Jenkins has written several stimulating and highly perceptive columns on the subject of education, and recently wrote another, published by the Guardian last week: Why computer science graduates can’t talk themselves into jobs http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/07/computer-science-graduates-victims-dirigiste-education On a day when young … Continue reading
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