News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Universities are in the midst of a financial crisis, with a dramatic drop in demand leading to the closure of arts and humanities degrees across England.
The British Empire should be taught to school pupils like Nazi Germany, curriculum guidelines from the "leading provider of support for schools and trusts” insist.
Primary schools have failed to return to pre-lockdown standards across reading, writing and maths for 10-11 year-olds, new figures reveal.
Labour's manifesto threatens us with an "expert-led" review to produce a "modern, inclusive and innovative" school curriculum. Former Government chief curriculum adviser Dr. Nicholas Tate looks at what this could mean.
A teacher has written a hair-raising account In the Daily Sceptic of how schoolchildren are being spoon fed hard Left ideology under the guise of teaching them to be more 'inclusive'.
Does anyone actually read books anymore? With increasing numbers of children and adults eschewing books, Joanna Gray wonders if we have already entered the Dark Ages.
A teacher at a school in the south of England with a large Muslim population asked his class how many of them hated Britain. In an instant, 30 hands shot up. Houston, we have a problem.
A battle is raging about what our schools are for, writes former top Government adviser Nicholas Tate. Woke propaganda is pushing out the essentials of a classical education, leaving pupils intellectually impoverished.
The fact that the Government has had to tell teachers to ban children from using mobile phones in schools is just a glimpse of what is wrong with the education system, says former Headteacher Mike Fairclough.
New Ofsted chief Sir Martyn Oliver recently admitted that Ofsted itself is one of the key problems facing teachers today. Too right, says ex-teacher Steven Tucker: what it calls 'good' is often nothing of the sort.
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