Battles on Video

Battles on Video presents videos from previous Battle of Ideas festivals, interviews and opinion pieces by speakers and participants, as well as specially produced in-depth discussions.

Education

21 10 12: Students: consumers at the heart of a university?

21 10 12: Free schools: myth and reality

21 10 12: Are exams a cheat?

21 10 12: Illuminating the Middle Ages

30 10 11: Ain’t misbehaving - do British children need the army to sort them out?

30 10 11: Skilling up the jilted generation: the employability debate

30 10 10: Memorialising the Holocaust: the challenge of history?

30 10 10: What's the point of the social sciences?

29 10 10: Don't look back: why does history matter?


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