Battle of Ideas 2014
Festival weekend: Education
Saturday 18 October: 10.00-11.30
Therapy Culture Cinema 3
Cotton-wool campus?
Saturday 18 October: 12.00-13.00
Technological Innovation Frobisher Auditorium 2
Year of coding: programming kids for work?
Contemporary Controversies Hammerson Room
D'ya get me? Does proper English matter?
Saturday 18 October: 14.00-15.30
Creative Conundrums Library
What does literacy mean today?
Saturday 18 October: 16.00-17.15
Therapy Culture Cinema 3
The trouble with boys: is masculinity in crisis?
Sunday 19 October: 10.00-11.30
Me, Me, Me Politics Cinema 2
Who gives a damn about ‘student satisfaction’?
School Fights Frobisher Auditorium 2
Lessons from Asia: what is a world-class education?
Creative Conundrums Conservatory
What is connoisseurship?
Contemporary Controversies Hammerson Room
From Amazon to ebooks: are libraries outdated?
Sunday 19 October: 12.00-13.00
School Fights Frobisher Auditorium 2
Data overload: what is the point of exams?
Sunday 19 October: 13.10-13.40
Festival Attractions 2014 Hammerson Room
Learn Latin in 30 minutes
Sunday 19 October: 14.00-15.30
School Fights Frobisher Auditorium 2
Keeping the faith schools?
Sunday 19 October: 16.00-17.15
School Fights Frobisher Auditorium 2
Evidence-based education: marks out of 10?

Should we fear democracy?

"Some of the freest speech I have enjoyed in years."
Baroness Ruth Deech QC, crossbench peer; chairman, Bar Standards Board

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