News Round-Up
6 July 2025
by Will Jones
Joanna Gray says she was too kind to describe schools as institutionalised childcare. The reality is even worse. Often they're just a holding pen, or even a pre-custody suite.
In a worrying development, the Oxford and Cambridge exam board OCR has told Labour that its new compulsory school curriculum should have climate change and 'diversity and inclusion' at its heart, warns Dr. Nicholas Tate.
We should ditch nasty old-fashioned exams and let students design their own assessments, according to the latest hair-brained scheme by Left-wing educationalists. Steven Tucker gives it both barrels in the Daily Sceptic.
In another case of 'you couldn't make it up', there's a campaign underway to 'decolonise' exams by letting students sit their own personalised ones they could never fail. What could possibly go wrong, asks Steven Tucker.
Schoolchildren face further disruption in their exams this summer because of a shortage of invigilators, which unions are blaming on a fear of catching Covid in 'unsafe' school environments.
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