A question of degree It is hard to fault David Cameron’s comment that, when a child steps through the school gates for the first time, More

School governance A day or so before the Conservative Party Conference someone let slip that, in addition to providing for up to 5,000 primary schools More

Knowledge transfer It was in the early 1980s that several business people and educationalists came together to consider whether there was a role they could More

Overschooled but Undereducated The tranquillity of the summer holidays is soon to be broken as the media indulges in its annual analysis (orgy?) of examination More

Yesterday was busy.  It was late, and I was tired as I arrived at Paddington some 7 or 8 minutes before my train left. Noting that there More