Francis Beckett

Articles by Francis Beckett

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Brideshead inspected? No, sir!

  • 07 May 2001

Francis Beckett explains how teaching at the top universities managed to escape official scrutiny

The unheard voice of the countryside

  • 30 April 2001

May Day 2001 - Nobody bothers to ask farmworkers what they think of the current crisis

A poor start for a brave new world

  • 02 April 2001

Francis Beckett asks if Britain's FE colleges, with their underpaid lecturers and champagne-swigging principals, can really give us all lifelong learning

Bring back the right to strike

  • 12 March 2001

Francis Beckett explains why "everybody out" is now a cry so rarely heard from British workers

The end of Blunkett's grand illusion

  • 19 February 2001

Business won't put money in state schools unless it also gets control. Labour's latest plan suggests that ministers now understand this. Francis Beckett reports

Which of these two men is the real education secretary? (not the one you think)

  • 16 October 2000

When Mary had a little form to fill

  • 02 October 2000

Francis Beckett marvels at the dense paperwork imposed on teachers to get a £2,000 pay rise

A rumble in the blackboard jungle

  • 24 July 2000

Francis Beckett reveals the full, hitherto untold story of the clash between Chris Woodhead, the chief inspector of schools, and his main liberal critic

Education, education, profit

  • 10 July 2000

Does Blunkett realise that the people behind his latest wheeze favour an end to state schools? Francis Beckettreports

School for scandal

  • 12 June 2000

Reclaiming Education James Tooley Cassell, 264pp, £12.99 ISBN 0304705675

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President Cheney?

Get ready for President Cheney

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Anarchism's failure

The World That Never Was: a True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents

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