#comprehensive schools

Privately educated elite continues to take top jobs

A privately educated elite continues to dominate the UK’s leading professions, taking top jobs in fields as diverse as the law, politics, medicine and journalism, according to new research. The Sutton Trust educational charity has been carrying out similar surveys for more than a decade, and though it reports “small signs” of progress, this year’s results confirm what has long been known – that…

I was part of the generation of children educated in the great, bold experiment in “comprehensive” schools when I was introduced to the poetry of e.e. cummings. The playing with syntax and typography — even the way his name was published then, though not now — resonated with teenagers in the late 60s. The poetry seemed to us fresh, unconventional, daring and, since we certainly would not have…

A Personal View of the Festival of Education, Wellington College summary of Day One Morning at Welly. Interesting!

Anyone who is interested in education and has never been to the “Sunday Times Festival of Education”, held at Wellington College, should seriously think about attending next year. There’s an extraordinary amount of speakers – practitioners, politicians and a few famous people or two, all offering their thoughts on education now and in the future. So-called progressives, traditionalists, policy…

Daily Telegraph. 8th July 2011