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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
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
Sweden is not Marilyn Munroe
(This is the unedited version of an article which appeared recently in the Spectator) Sweden is iconic like Marilyn Munroe or Karl Marx. It is supposed to stand for something special: a kind of socialist paradise where socialism and a … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education, Healthcare and the NHS, Parenting, Politics, Welfare benefits
Italy and Sweden – worlds apart
I have done two highly contrasting trips in the past few months. First Italy and then Sweden. In both cases, the trips were prompted by other things but I used them to research a new book I am writing about … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education, General, Healthcare and the NHS, Housing, Parenting, Welfare benefits, Work on the new book
78pc of children not entered for all five traditional core subjects
I have been very suspicious of the results of exams in recent years. One thing I noticed was the results of state schools seemed to be getting better in relation to the independent schools. There seemed no reason why this … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education
In Japan, hard work and the parents are important in education. Maybe we should try these things.
The reputation of Japanese education has taken a bit of a tumble. It was regarded in the 1980s as being a model to follow. This was because the Japanese economy was doing so astonishingly well that people around the world … Continue reading
The public sector union problem now reaches America, too
It is not just in Britain. Public sector unions are spreading around the world. The early history of unions had aspects which would be considered good in the eyes of most people. The mutual support members offered each other in … Continue reading
Italian welfare – a curate’s egg
I have just returned from a visit to Italy where I spoke to quite a lot of interesting people about the welfare state there. I learned too much to put down a fraction of it here. But this, in ultra-brief, … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Care for the elderly, Education, Healthcare and the NHS, Housing, Parenting, Pensions, Tax and growth, Welfare benefits, Work on the new book