School
The wait and arrival of my GCSE results
In the months following examinations, and the days leading up to that ominous 23 of August, entitled ‘Results Day’, there seems to be a constant reminder that GCSEs ‘mean nothing’ in the greater scheme of things by those at university or finishing their A-levels.
By Jack Foden | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 23 August 2012 at 12:27 pm
On GCSE results day: The great university con trick
At this time of year tens of thousands of excited young people are busy packing kettles and ironing boards ready for next term while others are desperately scrambling through Clearing in the hope that they might, just might, get a place to study something – anything – in a higher education institution a long way from home even if it’s only Horology with Romanian at the University of NeverHeardOfIt.
By Susan Elkin | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 23 August 2012 at 4:00 am
Just about everything that’s wrong with education today
The current education system, under the impression the youth of Britain epitomize stupidity, seems to consist of a condescending series of spoon-feeding stages in a one-dimensional standardisation of children.
By Jack Foden | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 22 August 2012 at 11:00 am
What’s wrong with Eton? It doesn’t teach snobbery
On one hand, I hate the idea that I am part of a group of school alumni whom it is fair game to mock as posh, pampered and out of touch. On the other hand, I hate the idea of inequality of opportunity, of which Eton is her metaphor.
By Musa Okwonga | Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 14 August 2012 at 11:40 am
For some children, PE lessons are far from enjoyable
At the height of Olympic fever, it’s all well and good to say that children should be doing more sport and that state schools should add more hours of PE into the curriculum, but I think we are overegging the pudding, here.
By Sophie Warnes | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 10 August 2012 at 3:03 pm
Why I picked the vocational route
Studying through an apprenticeship isn’t for everyone. You’re thrown in the deep end, into the working world, and you either sink or swim.
By Helen Wright | Notebook | Saturday, 4 August 2012 at 12:00 am
Teaching creationism: Indoctrination is a form of child abuse
Anyone who tells children that God – literally – created the world in seven days 6,000 years ago is guilty of perverting education.
By Susan Elkin | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 20 July 2012 at 2:00 am
Time to cancel the end of term?
British school children are in school for just a few hours five days a week for around 38/40 weeks a year. It really doesn’t add up to very much overall so why do we allow so much of that precious time to be wasted?
By Susan Elkin | Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 2 July 2012 at 10:26 am
In defence of the GCSE
It looks like pupils across England will sit GCSEs for the last time in 2015, paving the way for more traditional exams modelled on the old O-levels the following year. This is undeniably a bold move – breath-taking even – which has taken politicians and educationalists completely by surprise. But is it right?
By Rick Muir | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 22 June 2012 at 12:42 pm
In my GCSEs, we practised with O-Level papers knowing nothing that difficult would come up
It’s easy to dismiss Michael Gove’s decision to replace GCSEs with O-Levels as a “ludicrous” move. In fact, that was the exact term used by Mary Bousted, leader of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, who accused the Education Secretary of having a rose-tinted view of the past. As the news emerged last night, the Twitterati jumped all over it. Why stop at bringing back GCSEs, they cried. What about leg warmers and fax machines?
By Liam O'Brien | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 21 June 2012 at 3:30 pm
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