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1 mars 2016

The importance of play: what universities can learn from preschools

By Nicola Whitton. Almost as soon as they begin school, children start getting tested. With the introduction of tests for four-year-olds and the explicit link between test results and school performance, education policies of successive governments have led to an increased emphasis on results at all levels of schooling. More...

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1 mars 2016

A prison education saved me from a lifetime behind bars

By David Honeywell. David Cameron’s prison reform speech came one day shy of the 18th anniversary of my release from prison. I can still remember the buzz of excitement I felt walking through the gates for what would be the last time. The very same gates I entered 15 years before to begin my first prison sentence after being sentenced for robbery. More...

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1 mars 2016

Curriculum changes contradict vision for Britain’s creative future

By Abigail Harrison Moore. The government is pulling simultaneously in two different directions when it comes to how seriously it takes the creative industries. At a speech at the first birthday of the Creative Industries Federation in January, chancellor George Osborne argued that public investment in creative industries was “an investment in who we are as a nation”. He also recognised the importance of “art for art’s sake”. More...

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1 mars 2016

University freedoms in India under threat as student leader charged with sedition

By Deborah Sutton. . . On the night of February 12, Kanhaiya Kumar, president of the students union of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, one of India’s foremost universities, was arrested on charges of sedition. In the words of cabinet minister Smriti Irani, he had insulted the divine “Mother India”. More...

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1 mars 2016

How shift to computer-based tests could shake up PISA education rankings

By John Jerrim. The world’s most important examination is moving online. Since the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development launched the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2000, it has provided an influential and timely update every three years of how 15-year-old school children’s mathematics, science and reading skills compare across the globe. More...

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1 mars 2016

The curious incident of the disappearing French circumflex

By Dominic Glynn. French speakers have been scratching their heads in recent weeks over the alleged death of the circumflex. The news went viral that the accent, used in words such as goût (taste) or île (island), was no longer necessary in many French spellings. It even sparked a new sister hashtag to last year’s #jesuischarlie on Twitter: #jesuiscirconflexe.
Politicians, particularly those on the right and far-right, voiced their opposition and bemoaned the death of a diacritic – the name given to accents such as the circumflex – that they believe is integral to the French language and France’s identity.
But far from the language being watered down in a conscious effort to dumb down the school system, the changes are not new and probably won’t make much difference anyway. Indeed, the way the words are pronounced won’t even be affected. More...

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1 mars 2016

Intellectually gifted students often have learning disabilities

By Catherine Wormald. Mention the terms “intellectual giftedness” and “learning disability” and there is a general understanding of what each term means. However, most people are unaware that in many circumstances the two can go hand in hand. More...

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1 mars 2016

University councils need greater expertise, including staff and student voices

By Gwilym Croucher. The proposed restructure of the University of Sydney Senate has caused much controversy recently. Sydney University intends to reduce the size of the Senate from 22 to 15 members, and reduce the role for alumni and elected academic staff representatives.
University governance usually doesn’t attract great public attention, but it is a bit different when outcry comes from some high-powered and highly-respected Australians. More...

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1 mars 2016

Safe Schools Coalition: what is the Christian Right afraid of?

By Timothy W. Jones. At the instigation of conservative Liberal senator Cory Bernardi, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has requested an investigation into the Safe Schools Coalition. In doing so, Turnbull has given voice to, and legitimised, discredited and prejudiced views that inclusive sexuality education will turn kids gay. More...

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1 mars 2016

How universities can redress inequality

By Stephen Parker. To expect a single index to capture a person’s achievement to date and their potential for a particular course of study is simplistic and reductionist.
The ATAR is a gift to the media, enabling it to portray nuanced admission methods as hypocritical discounting, and persistently confusing a rank with a mark. More...

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