Category Archives: Education

Posts in category: "Education":

Spirit of inquiry

Following on from Dave's post:

The government's partial climbdown over whether to hold the Iraq war inquiry in public adds an impression of muddle and incompetence to the appearance of political cynicism that surrounded the original decision. This new move reinforces the sense that the decision was rushed through for no other reason than to appease [...]

School selection by lottery?

Conor Ryan says: "...it is rather worrying that the schools secretary appears to think that a comprehensive school can achieve a broad intake simply by taking those who live within its rather arbitary catchment area."