Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Dennis Hayes, ed., Routledge, 2004
Daniel Rose examines the role and potential of the educator as a role-model within both formal and informal education
Daniel Rose, the encyclopedia of informal education, 2004
The Sex and Relationships Education Framework is the core document of the Sex Education Forum. It is also for professionals who work with children and young people in all settings and who want to support the effective development of SRE policy and practice.
Sex Education Forum, November 2003
Professor Charles Desforges with Alberto Abouchaar, Department for Education and Skills, 2003
Universities are struggling to cope with the expansion of higher education. Should students pay more for the benefits? Can you have excellence in a mass system? Does Britain really need world-class universities?
Alison Wolf, Prospect, 20 January 2003
Joanna Haynes, Routledge, 22 November 2001
A speech to the Social Market Foundation
Estelle Morris, teachernet, 12 November 2001
The popular acclaim for Alan Sokal's Intellectual Impostures suggests a deep-seated suspicion about the value of much theoretical work in the humanities. But if the heroic age of scholarship is past, what are the humanities for? To teach us how to lead better lives?
Alain de Botton, Prospect, 20 August 1998
Has tolerance gone too far?
"The Battle of Ideas gives a forum for the most topical of debates and the healthy exchange of ideas - in our session what interested most was the contributions from the floor, also just the sheer buzz of the crowds in the foyers."
Jeremy Musson, writer and historic buildings consultant; former architectural editor, Country Life
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