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The Wonderfulness of Us (the Tory Interpretation of History)
Gove, Schama and their allies are confusing history with memory. History is a critical academic discipline whose aims include precisely the interrogation of memory and the myths it generates. It really does matter to historians that there isn’t any evidence that Alfred burned the cakes, or that Nelson and Wellington weren’t national heroes to everyone.
Richard J. Evans,
London Review of Books, 17 March 2011
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Review of Vocational Education – The Wolf Report
Today’s labour market conditions bear very hard on young people. Underlying structural trends have been made worse by recession. We need to ensure that students have every opportunity to gain the most important and generalisable skills, including those gained in employment
Alison Wolf, Department for Education, March 2011
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A Ban on Brain-Boosting Drugs Is Not the Answer
Simply calling the use of study drugs "unfair" tells us nothing about why colleges should ban them. If such drugs really do improve academic performance among healthy students (and the evidence is scant), shouldn't colleges put them in the drinking water instead?
Matt Lamkin,
Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 February 2011
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Education Forum Podcast
Reflections on The Importance of Teaching: Citizenship is Dead. Long Live History?
IoI Education Fourm, 20 February 2011
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The Struggle for the History of Education
The history of education is a contested field of study, and has represented a site of struggle for the past century of its development. It is highly relevant to an understanding of broader issues in history, education and society, and yet has often been regarded as being merely peripheral rather than central to them.
Gary McCulloch, Routledge,
18 February 2011
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Ron Dearing lecture: Universities and Social Mobility
Social mobility is at the heart of the Government's agenda. That is why Michael Gove is reforming our schools, why Iain Duncan Smith is making work pay for everyone, why Nick Clegg will shortly publish a cross-government social mobility strategy setting out our plans. Universities must be part of this.
David Willetts, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, 17 February 2011
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Who’s afraid of the ‘tiger mother’?
All the non-stop commentary on Amy Chua's new book overlooks one important fact: determined ‘tiger mums’ are a response to the fact that society itself no longer pushes children to succeed.
Nancy McDermott,
spiked, 28 January 2011
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Aristotle on modern ethical dilemmas
Getting on in the world is a priority for many. But is social mobility good? As the BBC researches the class system, philosopher Mark Vernon says thinkers like Kant have mulled over such questions for centuries.
Mark Vernon, BBC News, 26 January 2011
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what Chinese parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it's like inside the family, and whether they could do it too. Well, I can tell them, because I've done it...
Amy Chua, Bloomsbury,
11 January 2011
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