By Graeme Paton. Major inquiry chaired by Sir Roy Anderson, former rector of Imperial College London, criticises "outdated" A-levels and calls for them to be replaced by a baccalaureate.
A-levels should be scrapped in favour of a European-style baccalaureate because schools are failing to prepare teenagers for university and the workplace, a major report has warned.
Traditional “gold standard” qualifications should be phased out over six to eight years to give pupils a grounding in a wider range of subjects and job skills, according to a powerful lobby of academics and business leaders. More...
Funding the humanities: what story do we want to tell?
By Earl Lewis. To grow investment for the humanities, we must start with a clear sense of narrative backed up by solid data, says Earl Lewis. Three quarters of a century ago, Virginia Woolf posed the question: if you had just three guineas to share, what would you support?
In each age we face ostensibly insurmountable challenges that require choices to be made, resources to be allocated and areas to be ignored. This is particularly the case in the US, which has seen an explosion in the number of registered philanthropic organisations, as well as a rethinking of what it means to be philanthropic. According to the Foundation Center, 81,777 foundations and charitable entities dot the US social landscape. More...