Reading for Battle
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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Education
Turning the Ivory Towers into a skills factory
Today’s yawn-inducing debate about how higher education should be funded reflects a profound uncertainty about what higher education is for.
Tim Black, spiked, 12 October 2010
Today’s yawn-inducing debate about how higher education should be funded reflects a profound uncertainty about what higher education is for.
Tim Black, spiked, 12 October 2010
It saddens me that choir can't solve everything
Can Britain’s favourite choirmaster, the man who taught boys to love singing, now make them love school as well?
Jane Wheatley, The Times, 11 October 2010
Can Britain’s favourite choirmaster, the man who taught boys to love singing, now make them love school as well?
Jane Wheatley, The Times, 11 October 2010
Michael Gove: All pupils will learn our island story
The current approach we have to history denies children the opportunity to hear our island story. Children are given a mix of topics at primary, a cursory run through Henry the Eighth and Hitler at secondary and many give up the subject at 14, without knowing how the vivid episodes of our past become a connected narrative. Well, this trashing of our past has to stop.
Michael Gove, , 5 October 2010
The current approach we have to history denies children the opportunity to hear our island story. Children are given a mix of topics at primary, a cursory run through Henry the Eighth and Hitler at secondary and many give up the subject at 14, without knowing how the vivid episodes of our past become a connected narrative. Well, this trashing of our past has to stop.
Michael Gove, , 5 October 2010
Simon Schama to advise ministers on overhaul of history curriculum
Education secretary Michael Gove tells Tory conference move will ensure no pupil leaves school without learning 'narrative British history'
Jeevan Vasaga and Andrew Sparrow, Guardian, 5 October 2010
Education secretary Michael Gove tells Tory conference move will ensure no pupil leaves school without learning 'narrative British history'
Jeevan Vasaga and Andrew Sparrow, Guardian, 5 October 2010
IoI Education Forum debate on Free Schools
Podcast of the recent Battle Satellite on Free Schools, held in conjunction with the IoI Education Forum
Education Forum, 4 October 2010
Podcast of the recent Battle Satellite on Free Schools, held in conjunction with the IoI Education Forum
Education Forum, 4 October 2010
Let parents be parents and let teachers teach
I think every child should be entitled to a universal liberal education. At a time when “local” is the new buzzword, I want to argue for a common standard in terms of curriculum provision and assessment.
Kevin Rooney, Independent Blogs, 2 October 2010
I think every child should be entitled to a universal liberal education. At a time when “local” is the new buzzword, I want to argue for a common standard in terms of curriculum provision and assessment.
Kevin Rooney, Independent Blogs, 2 October 2010
Past masters: Classical Greek is back on the curriculum
Why is a classical Greek GCSE on offer at the progressive Hampshire school?
Hilary Wilce, Independent, 23 September 2010
Why is a classical Greek GCSE on offer at the progressive Hampshire school?
Hilary Wilce, Independent, 23 September 2010
School where parents and pupils will set goals together
Parents of pupils at a new London academy will soon be able to help decide what their children study.
Anna Davis, Evening Standard, 22 September 2010
Parents of pupils at a new London academy will soon be able to help decide what their children study.
Anna Davis, Evening Standard, 22 September 2010
The Idea of a University
From 1854, for a period of five years, Newman was rector of the newly founded Catholic University of Ireland (now University College Dublin), and during that time he delivered lectures that were later published as The Idea of a University -- surely the most serene and beautiful vindication that we have of the old ideal of the scholarly life.
Roger Scruton, American Spectator, September 2010
From 1854, for a period of five years, Newman was rector of the newly founded Catholic University of Ireland (now University College Dublin), and during that time he delivered lectures that were later published as The Idea of a University -- surely the most serene and beautiful vindication that we have of the old ideal of the scholarly life.
Roger Scruton, American Spectator, September 2010
A rather unchristian school admissions policy?
Four years as a governor in a church school converted Sharon Wright into a radical opponent of faith schools
Sharon Wright, Guardian, 20 September 2010
Four years as a governor in a church school converted Sharon Wright into a radical opponent of faith schools
Sharon Wright, Guardian, 20 September 2010
Trust in an age of cynicism
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Christopher Kelly, reader in Ancient History and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Corpus Christi College
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