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Read The Book
Before the welfare state
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The Greycoat Hospital
The Greycoat Hospital was once a workhouse. It has since been a hospital and a school. It has a very long welfare history. It has now been taken over by the state.
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The Greycoat Hospital
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Education and State
Licence
Stats
A notice board of photos of children who should get special attention
A former teacher gave me an insight last night about how schools react to targets. One of the key targets in Britain is to get as many children as possible obtaining GCSE passes rated at between A and C. What … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education
Extra education people pay for
It seems possible, as a minimum, that the supplementary private education that students have in Japan is one of the reasons that Japan does well in international assessments of standards. There was an article about these schools, the Juku, in … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education
Interview in Sweden
Here is an interview I did earlier this year in Sweden. http://www.axess.se/tv/program.aspx?id=2666
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education, European Union, General, Healthcare and the NHS, Parenting, Pensions, Politics, Unemployment, Welfare benefits
The champion teacher union
Teachers’ unions in Britain, the USA, France and elsewhere have reason to think that they wield considerable power and have been able to improve their conditions of employment considerably. But surely the champion of teacher trade unions is that of … Continue reading
The most powerful man in education in the world
I was told that Michael Gove, the British secretary of state for education, said this man was the most important person in education in the world. I think that could be upgraded to ‘the most powerful’. He does not run … Continue reading
Learning to do a job
I have just visited a vocational school in Zurich. The thing that struck me most was the information that students at it do not apply to the school. They apply to a company to employ them and then, when they … Continue reading
Beer and circuses: aspects of university education in the USA…and probably elsewhere
…high dropout rates, growing student debt, a beer-and-circus social spectacle that dominates many campuses, and measured outcomes that show many students fail to increase their knowledge significantly in four, five, or more years… From an article arguing for a return … Continue reading
Where the “gold ticket to Hollywood” is getting away from a state school
”It’s like American Idol.. I got my gold ticket to Hollywood,” This is a quote from a father, Nigel White, after his daughter’s name was pulled from the box in a lottery to see which children got to go to … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education
Illiteracy – it is not just Britain
The BBC had a programme on ‘the day before 9/11 in which George Bush was heard declaring a war on illiteracy. I have found a contemporaneous report. But what is interesting, after writing a lot about illiteracy in Britain is … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education
Too much higher education
Tyler Brule is an unusual columnist who writes for the Financial Times. He normally writes about style and shopping but he travels around the world a lot and sometimes writes on other things, as today: With some of the highest … Continue reading