Francis Gilbert

Articles by Francis Gilbert

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One long Sats test

  • 20 November 2008
  • 2 comments

In this emotional indictment of our education system, the writer and teacher Francis Gilbert explains how an obsession with testing has broken enthusiasm for learning

Class war zone

  • 09 October 2008
  • 7 comments

Aggressive and disruptive behaviour blights many state schools, and the only remedy - excluding pupils - isn't working. Mentoring troubled children is more effective...

Finally, freedom

  • 06 March 2006

Education - a teacher's view. We'll learn to love the bill, argues Francis Gilbert

Novel of the week

  • 02 June 2003

Brick Lane Monica Ali Transworld/Doubleday, 413pp, £12.99 ISBN 038560484X

Autobiography 2 - The good life

  • 24 February 2003

Where Did It All Go Right?: growing up normal in the Seventies Andrew Collins Ebury Press, 320pp, £9.99 ISBN 0091886678

War wounds

  • 15 July 2002

Peacetime Robert Edric Doubleday, 357pp, £12.99 ISBN 0385602979

Lost in the funhouse

  • 08 April 2002

Salamander Thomas Wharton Flamingo, 368pp, 15.99 ISBN 0007128649

Novel of the week

  • 04 March 2002

Address Unknown Kressmann Taylor Souvenir Press, 64pp, £6.99 ISBN 0743412710

The day of the hunt

  • 18 February 2002

Embers Sandor Marai Viking, 224pp, £12.99 ISBN 0670910996

Novel of the week

  • 03 September 2001

The Devil's Larder Jim Crace Penguin, 194pp, £12.99 ISBN 0670881457

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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