Three cheers for Lucy Mangan, writing in today’s Guardian Weekend on the ‘pernicious’ private/state school divide and the hail of criticism she faced when once daring to express her opinion on this issue on our broadcast media.
Perhaps articles such as these might kick start a widespread campaign in defence of state education on a par with recent passionate public defence of the NHS?
With the Tories apparently converting to all-ability schools, despite internal opposition, the debate on academic selection seemed one argument that had run its course, despite the continuing existence of 165 grammar schools, that no government dares touch. Not so. The argument rumbles on, boosted by recent publication of Alan Milburn’s study on social mobility: the… Continue Reading
For those of you following the campaign to promote government funding for long term psychodynamic therapy as opposed to merely offering everyone quick fix CBT, particularly for those on low incomes, you might be interested in a rather lyrical summary of aspects of the spring meeting, which I chaired, at the Houses of Parliament, and… Continue Reading
Read my blog profile/interview on Normblog posted on Friday July 24th. Continue Reading
The crisis of the meritocracy: Britain’s transition to mass education since the Second World War PETER MANDLER, 2020 Oxford: Oxford University Press 361pp, hardback, £25, ISBN 9780198840145 Cambridge historian Peter Mandler has a fundamentally optimistic story to tell about the growth of universal education in Britain over the last seventy years and one can sense… Continue reading…
Melissa will be in conversation with Anne Sebba about her new book, ‘Ethel Rosenberg – A Cold War Tragedy.’ Weds 15th September 2021, 5-6pm, in the Robert Graves Tent at the Wimbledon Book Festival. More information here. Continue reading…
