The Kingdom of Even
Equality begins at school
Saturday 1 July 2017
Class Dismissed: Praise, Humiliation and the Manufacture of British Values
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The education divide in society has traditionally been framed as one of ability, with the ‘well educated’ (predominately middle class) hav...
Thursday 6 October 2016
Does Assessment Reveal Outcomes or Create them?
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Newton measured the Heavens and they ignored him and all his successors until they reached a level of knowledge and skill that took away thi...
Sunday 18 September 2016
What's so special about The War?
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An Australian friend said to me recently that it’s weird how much we in England talk about the Second World War. It struck me not only bec...
Sunday 11 September 2016
The History Deficit
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To explain Jeremy Corbyn you might say he’s a cross between Citizen Smith and your second favourite woodwork teacher. Baseball, to those of...
Sunday 17 July 2016
What Labour plotters could learn from Brutus and Cassius
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Julius Caesar was not killed because his policies spelled disaster for Rome. His reforms to the governance of the provinces went more or ...
Saturday 19 March 2016
Mass Mobility: How Schools can build us an Equal Society
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More evidence surfaced last week in research by John Goldthorpe that class is destiny in Britain, where you're born in our society to a...
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Sunday 28 February 2016
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Our population is aging, within fifteen years the number of people over 65 will rise by over 50%. Our economy is changing as automation thre...
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