Is Britain’s Strictest Headmistress a visionary or a tyrant?
Many of Katharine Birbalsingh’s rules seem petty beyond belief – but she gets results. What does her approach tell us…
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Taliban condemn girls to a “lifetime of lockdown” by shutting schools
Shukria Barakzai saw the damage first-hand under the last regime when she ran secret lessons from her flat in Kabul.
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Stop acting like private school pupils “own” Oxbridge places
Private school heads demand that university places be awarded on merit alone when they are the ones that have had…
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Tony Blair is right: more people should go on to higher education
Rather than trying to limit the number who enter university, we should focus on making it more effective.
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Mary Colwell: the woman behind the UK’s new nature GCSE
In a conservation landscape riven by conflict and opposing interests, the education campaigner insists the new qualification must be “for…
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Will the SNP ever address the Scottish schools crisis?
Failing to educate children effectively is about as grievous a state deficiency as can be imagined.
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There’s a problem with university culture – but it isn’t the students
Do the grown-ups decrying today’s students really believe they never did anything when they were young that would have caused…
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Exclusive: Majority of poorer pupils could be barred from university under loan rules
Entry requirements for student finance could block up to 55 per cent of children from disadvantaged backgrounds, the New Statesman…
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