January 2, 2017 at 03:21AM When the nominations for pop music’s Brit awards – an event considered so central to public life that it will be broadcast live on terrestrial television – are announced this month, there should be only one question that needs answering. Will the UK’s record industry finally acknowledge “grime” as this […]

January 1, 2017 at 11:42PM Here are the 10 most viewed posts of last year. Only half of them were actually written last year and some of them are several years old. I reckon this must in part be due to the fact that there are so many links to some of my older posts knocking

January 1, 2017 at 09:51PM “My name is Kit and I’m 12 years old. I live in a house with my mum and dad, and our dog, Pickle. When I was born, the doctors told my mum and dad that they had a baby girl, and so for the first few years of my life

January 1, 2017 at 09:30PM Not all working-class children want to be middle or upper class. says Garth Stahl, the author of Identity, Neoliberalism and Aspiration… emphasising that education is about changing people and not everyone wants to change. We are defined by where we are in the rat race and that is where we feel

January 1, 2017 at 06:32PM I tend to do two things when I mark work.  Round the edge of a piece of written work, I write comments that apply specifically to that piece of work.  At the end of the work, I set general targets, intended to provide guidance for when the student is doing

January 1, 2017 at 06:09AM I put together a round up of my favourite reads of 2015 and some people seemed to like it. So, in typically opportunistic manner, I though I’d repeat the exercise. Here are some of the books I found my interesting in 2016: Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens was

January 1, 2017 at 05:01AM Listen to my interview with Maureen Blaha, Executive Director of the National Runaway Safeline (transcript):   Because our mission is to serve and teach kids, any issue that impacts them has the potential to impact our work. And running away from home can impact kids in dangerous ways. We owe it

I would not risk the accusations of hysteria that would rightly follow if I were to accuse the universities minister, Jo Johnson, of bearing even a passing resemblance to the Chinese president, Xi Xinping. But as Mr Johnson prepares to watch his higher education and research bill continue its passage through the Lords, I would