New Statesman
By Jason Cowley - 08 May 14:41

New Statesman editor Jason Cowley speaks to Anthony Little, headmaster of Eton College, about the role of public schools, the new crop of Etonians ruling public life and Gove's education reforms.

A child plays tennis at school. Photo: Getty
By Glosswitch - 20 April 9:18

Teachers must wish Michael Gove worked shorter days and took longer holidays - then his department might stop coming up with so many ill-considered changes to the education system.

Michael Gove. Photograph: Getty Images
By Jonn Elledge - 25 March 14:28

The Education Secretary’s combative methods are going to result in bad policy. His them-and-us style is alienating the middle ground and polarising the debate.

Young women hiking on the Chiltern Hills
By Aisha Gani - 14 March 19:51

Young women from BME backgrounds are discovering that there's more to hiking than the white middle class stereotype.

An empty lecture theatre at the Sorbonne.
By Philip Maughan - 11 March 17:24

Sir Michael Barber’s “revolution” in higher education.

By Harvey Woolfe - 31 January 12:47

Academi£s and Lies: A Story about Forced Academisation.

Kenneth Baker in 1987. Photograph: Getty Images
By George Eaton - 31 January 7:22

The former Conservative Education Secretary is sceptical about Michael Gove's free schools.

David Cameron visiting a London Early Years Foundation nursery
By Glosswitch - 30 January 12:02

Childcare qualifications are great, but they don’t help you look after more children at once, as the government seems to be hoping.

A still from "ParaNorman" by Chris Butler, a UCA alumnus, which has been nominat
By Simon Ofield-Kerr - 30 January 9:42

The changes to student finance, the promotion of STEM subjects through the EBacc and visa issues for international students are all discouraging potential students from realising their talents by following a creative arts degree.

Eton boys watch the tradtional wall game. Photograph: Getty Images.
By Glosswitch - 20 January 10:22

It’s easy to claim richer students are more confident because of their superior education, but it may be more accurate to say they’re more confident because they’re rich.

Children are often far better at dealing with transness than adults
By Jane Fae - 14 January 10:36

Writing for NS Trans Issues Week, Jane Fae explains why the "think of the children" reaction to transness is just a technique for concealing overt prejudice.

Illustration by Melinda Gebbie.
By Alan Moore - 19 December 8:10

We cannot state conclusively that anything is true.

B is for bad grammar.
By Martha Gill - 18 December 14:39

Martha Gill's "Irrational Animals" column.

Education Secretary Michael Gove. Photograph: Getty Images.
By Roger Titcombe - 04 December 14:57

False claims for the success of academies have been swallowed whole by an uncritical media.

Michael Gove.
By David Harris - 03 December 13:20

By dismantling educational infrastructure at such a speed, Gove is ensuring that his successors as Education Secretary will struggle to reverse what he's done.

New Statesman
By Martha Gill - 29 November 7:59

Martha Gill's Irrational Animals column.

Scary maths
By Michael Brooks - 22 November 12:38

The prospect of learning maths scares us, but actually doing the proper stuff is rather enjoyable.

New Statesman
By Jonathan Derbyshire - 22 November 6:51

The concept of the university as a home for disinterested pursuit of scholarship has been under attack for almost 30 years.

Pupils wait for school buses in the playground. Photograph: Getty Images.
By Neal Lawson - 19 November 12:02

The three parties are united behind a failed education consensus. We need a new system that promotes cooperation, not competition.

James Dyson would like us all to get rich by inventing vacuum cleaners
By Glosswitch - 17 November 12:26

James Dyson is dead wrong - studying things like "French lesbian poetry” can make people's lives better, even if they don't suck dirt up off carpets.

Girls at the Lamwo Kuc Ki Gen High School, northern Uganda
By Sophie McBain - 15 November 11:20

In 2016, commercial-scale oil production will begin in Uganda. But with only a quarter of all its children in secondary school, how can more of the people – especially girls – benefit from its new wealth?

Education Secretary Michael Gove. Photograph: Getty Images.
By George Eaton - 26 October 9:00

The Education Secretary plans to introduce tougher tests for trainee teachers, whilst allowing academies to hire unqualified teachers.

Education Secretary Michael Gove. Photograph: Getty Images.
By Jonathan Clifton - 18 October 13:08

There is no evidence that commercial companies would improve results.

New Statesman
By Steven Baxter - 15 October 9:46

As a second-time student who now pays the fees, Steven Baxter has noticed a change in his attitude to learning.

Hospitality fail: a protester in London in August. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
By Yo Zushi - 04 October 17:06

Especially all night, in queues.

Michael Gove
By Sophie Elmhirst - 20 September 11:02
Michael Gove.
By Rowenna Davis - 20 September 8:30

The education secretary believes some of our children are chaff and they must be separated from the wheat.

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