Better Know A Higher Education System: Westeros
Moneyball
How Performance-Based Funding in Ontario Incentivizes Arts Enrolments
Online and problem-based learning: the Danish experience
Higher education is about making lives better. That’s why we need better well-being metrics.
A moving target: the challenges of identifying and helping homeless university students.
One of the challenges of policy making is that issues are sometimes defined in stereotypes. This is particularly true of university education. Television programmes such as Fresh Meat have portrayed students as living in self-imposed squalor. Poor housing conditions are seen as a rite of passage, rather than the result of an unforgiving housing market. More...
Mind your headlines
Journalists’ headlines are fair game of course, and always have been, but sometimes you wince a bit more than usual, and reading of independent schools’ ‘woe’ about more state school pupils getting into Oxbridge was a bit much. Writing in this Saturday’s Times, an education correspondent was keen to keep alive the demon of sector divide, and depict us as hand-wringing, beleaguered Heads, seeing our pupils are a threatened species. More...
10th May 2019: A landmark date in human history
When the history of the world is written in 1,000 years’ time, Friday 10th May 2019 will be identified as a landmark date. For it was an event that happened on that day that enabled that history to be written: had that event not happened, human life would have long since become extinct. More...
Book Review: ‘The State of Independence. Key Challenges Facing Private Schools Today.’
Private school leaders and sector authorities are sometimes more informative and thought-provoking when talking mainly to themselves – as in this interesting, eclectic collection of essays – than when addressing the rest of us in defensive and propaganda mode, or when preaching to the wider world about how children should be educated. More...