Scandal of the homes with not a single book to read
At an age when children's literacy takes off, and they are expected to read for 20 minutes a day at home to keep up with classmates, Aurella has nothing to read and nobody at home to read to. It's hardly surprising her ability lagged three years behind that of her peers.
David Cohen, Evening Standard, 31 May 2011

Can Creativity Be Taught?
Every great leader is a creative leader. If creativity can be taught how is it done?
August Tarak, Forbes, 22 May 2011

We should embrace the use of smart drugs
A Debating Matters Topic Guide covering the smart drugs debate, with an overview of the discussion and a wide range of readings both for and against.
Helen Birtwistle, Debating Matters, 1 May 2011

So last century
About 100 years ago, higher education restructured to meet the needs of the industrial age. It has changed little since, even as the internet has transformed life. Another revolution is needed
Cathy Davidson, Times Higher Education, 28 April 2011

Why social mobility should start at school
Higher university fees and the end of the EMA grant were already deterring poorer teenagers from continuing their education. Now the English Baccalaureate could be the final straw, argues John Dunford
John Dunford, Independent, 14 April 2011

Are 'smart drugs' safe for students?
Students are increasingly taking neuroenhancing drugs to fight fatigue and help them concentrate. But how safe are they – and is it cheating?
Catherine Nixey, Guardian, 6 April 2011

Do 'smart drugs' really make us brainier?
It is no real surprise that the use of smart drugs is on the increase. It is an attractive proposition - becoming as alert and efficient as we have the potential to be, when we need to be.
Philippa Roxby, BBC News, 3 April 2011

Opening Doors, Breaking Barriers: A Strategy for Social Mobility
Fairness is a fundamental value of the Coalition Government. A fair society is an open society. A society in which everyone is free to flourish and rise. Where birth is never destiny. In Britain today, life chances are narrowed for too many by the circumstances of their birth: the home they’re born into, the neighbourhood they grow up in or the jobs their parents do. Patterns of inequality are imprinted from one generation to the next. The true test of fairness is the distribution of opportunities.
HM Government, April 2011

David Lodge: A novelist's lament for the golden age of universities
If you want to give higher education to a significant proportion of the age group, you can't have the quality of life that students had in the Fifties and Sixties. You've got to accept that you can't provide it for free
Richard Garner, Independent, 28 March 2011

The Wonderfulness of Us (the Tory Interpretation of History)
Gove, Schama and their allies are confusing history with memory. History is a critical academic discipline whose aims include precisely the interrogation of memory and the myths it generates. It really does matter to historians that there isn’t any evidence that Alfred burned the cakes, or that Nelson and Wellington weren’t national heroes to everyone.
Richard J. Evans, London Review of Books, 17 March 2011