Francis Gilbert

Articles by Francis Gilbert

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One long Sats test

  • 20 November 2008
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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

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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