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Chalk Talk: Has anyone managed a sneaky look at the White Paper?

Thursday, 16 June 2011

Talking to acquaintances in the world of academia who have met David Willetts recently has been illuminating.

Chalk Talk: Andrew Motion's dad – and the spectre of an art-free world

Thursday, 9 June 2011

To Oxford University and an emotional appeal by the former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion to ring-fence arts spending during the current spending cuts.

Designs for learning: An innovative Rutland school shows that low-cost needn't mean second-rate

Thursday, 9 June 2011

Cuts to building budgets mean there'll be no more show-stoppers like the newly unveiled City of Westminster College.

Will this be teachers' winter of discontent?

Thursday, 9 June 2011

With even the more moderate teaching unions balloting for industrial action, there is a real prospect of strikes – and widespread school closures – later this year.

Chalk Talk: A new start for universities? Oxford dons are not so confident

Thursday, 26 May 2011

Academics at Oxford University are planning to debate a motion of no confidence in the Universities Minister David Willetts. The debate, which will be conducted with all due pomp and ceremony at the university's congregation – its "parliament of dons" – is expected to take place within the next fortnight.

Are Finnish schools the best in the world?

Thursday, 26 May 2011

They have no uniforms, no selection, no fee-paying and no league tables. Yet Finland's education system consistently tops global rankings. Richard Garner finds out what we can learn from them.

Chalk Talk: Starting up a successful school is not quite as easy as it looks

Thursday, 19 May 2011

On the face of it, it looks embarrassing that the Government has had to turn away the vast majority of applicants to open up free schools under its flagship education policy – as we reported last week.

Andy Burnham: 'Why Michael Gove must try harder'

Thursday, 19 May 2011

His policies are slapdash, his intellect lacking and his instincts elitist, according to his opposite number, Andy Burnham. Here, he delivers the Education Secretary's report, one year into the job

Chalk Talk: Surprise, surprise - it's state-school pupils who are the real stars

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Oh ye of little faith! When Cambridge University announced last year it was to become one of the first in the country to insist on at least one A* grade at A-level from candidates for places, there was a chorus of disapproval. It was a typically elitist move from an elite university, which would benefit pupils in independent schools – where their teachers would be more likely to drill and push them into getting A*s.