Just Enough Education to Perform?
Date:
05-03-2010
Author:
Naomi Carle
Last Tuesday local councils sent thousands of texts, emails and letters communicating the news of secondary school place allocations for the autumn term 2010...
Connecting with Culture: Education
Welcome to the Education section of the ‘Connecting with Culture’ online article library. All the articles in this category are listed below, beginning with the one most recently added. You can search the entire category using the search facility below. Remember, every week a new ‘Connecting with Culture’ article is added to the online library, so it’s well worth visiting frequently.
Barbie at 50
Date:
13-03-2009
Author:
Jac Bull
Barbie is celebrating her 50th birthday this week - and frankly, she doesn’t look a day over 16 (I suspect plastic surgery may have had a hand in this). When she was launched in March 1959, she was the first adult-bodied doll and was marketed as a ‘Teen-age Fashion Model’.
A Good Childhood
Date:
06-02-2009
Author:
Jason Gardner
I could spend an age dissecting the latest Children’s Society’s findings in yet another report that highlights how we’re failing our children; instead I’ll address the core problem it highlights: If the UK was doing a song and dance routine in front of the Wizard of Oz right now, she’d be singing, ‘If I only had a moral compass.’
Shaping Education
Date:
10-10-2008
Author:
Antony Billington
Amid the current banking crisis, it has been reported that finance workers are heading for the teaching profession, leaving the office for the classroom, exchanging the Financial Times for the Times Educational Supplement. It’s not about the money or job security, apparently, or even the longer holidays, but the search for a career that will prov...
Best of British
Date:
14-03-2008
Author:
Jason Gardner
‘I pledge allegiance to the Queen, and to the Union Jack. I solemnly swear to mow my lawn in stripes and eat fish and chips once a week and chicken tikka masala once a month. I will endeavour to holiday in a static caravan in Bognor every year, and from this day forward will, without fail, watch the Last Night of the Proms and the FA Cup Final.â€...
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