Articles by subject: education
- No argument (by Paul Sims, March/April 2012 )
- In America rationalists find themselves in a new battle – opposing the passing of ‘academic freedom’ laws that allow the undermining of science in the classroom. Paul Sims reports
- What's wrong with university? Laurie Taylor interviews Stefan Collini (by Laurie Taylor, March/April 2012 )
- Amid the research targets and funding reforms our once world-leading centres for higher learning have lost their way. Laurie Taylor meets Stefan Collini, the Cambridge don mounting a fight back
- Down with answers (by Myra Zepf, January/February 2012 )
- Myra Zepf has a novel New Year's resolution for parents
- What are they teaching my kids? (by Rob Deering, November/December 2011 )
- Rob Deering is unimpressed by his local primary school's reliance on lazy, default Christianity
- Different angle (by Andrew West, July/August 2011 )
- Andrew West's photos of the Mustard Seed Secular School, Uganda
- Trouble at Grayling Hall (by Sally Feldman, July/August 2011 )
- Its difficult not to see the New College of the Humanities as misguided and anti-humanist, says Sally Feldman
- Editorial: School for scandal (by Caspar Melville, July/August 2011 )
- Education is a fundamental concern for humanists – so it's no surprise that AC Grayling's New College is dividing opinion
- Free to teach creationism? (by James Gray, March/April 2011 )
- Under the government's education reforms, 15 per cent of groups applying to open academies are religious. How would those schools handle evolution? James Gray investigates
- Editorial: Creating confusion (by Caspar Melville, March/April 2011 )
- Far from being an atheist straw man, Biblical fundamentalism poses a real threat to British schools
- Is it time for atheist schools? (by Francis Beckett, November/December 2010 )
- Francis Beckett outlines his proposal for Britain's first avowedly humanist state school
- Don't fall into the faith school trap (by Rabbi Jonathan Romain, November/December 2010 )
- Responding to Francis Beckett's proposal for a humanist school, Rabbi Jonathan Romain of the Accord Coalition warns of the risks of endorsing religious segregation in education
- Faith in schools? (by Jim Mulligan, November/December 2010 )
- Thanks largely to immigration, religious belief is making a comeback in our schools. Should we be concerned? Jim Mulligan visits Ed Miliband’s old school to find out.
- Editorial: oh we of little faith (by Caspar Melville, November/December 2010 )
- Are faith and religion necessarily intertwined?
- Bless this tiger (by Paul Sims, September/October 2009 )
- Paul Sims visits a zoo with a difference
- The art of uncertainty (by Danny Postel, September/October 2009 )
- Last issue’s article about how to raise children as humanists received hundreds of responses. Here its author, Danny Postel, chooses his favourites
- The art of certainty (by Roger Scruton, September/October 2009 )
- We need to teach children faith first before they can learn to doubt, says Roger Scruton, in his response to Danny Postel
- Good books? (by Danny Postel, July/August 2009 )
- What can humanist parents use in the battle against religious indoctrination? Danny Postel investigates
- Time for Accord (by Rabbi Jonathan Romain, November/December 2008 )
- Rabbi Jonathan Romain introduces a new front in the fight against faith schools
- Schools for scoundrels (by Francis Beckett, March/April 2007 )
- Religious groups are rushing to take advantage of the Blair government's new education policy, reports Francis Beckett. And guess who's paying for it?
- Raise the roof (by Moses Kamya, March/April 2007 )
- Moses Kamya thanks New Humanist readers for their generous donations following the construction of a new classroom block at the Mustard Seed school, Uganda
- Kids united (by Gary Kent, November/December 2006 )
- Northern Ireland's integrated education movement holds lessons for the faith school debate, says Gary Kent
- Bertrand Russell in Busota (by Caspar Melville, November/December 2006 )
- Caspar Melville introduces our appeal to help secular education in Uganda
- Goodbye to all that (by Michael Bywater, July/August 2006 )
- Michael Bywater misses his ivory tower
- Losing Faith (by Andrew Copson, March/April 2006 )
- Andrew Copson finds danger in Blair's education reforms
- Anarchy in the classroom (by Judith Suissa, September/October 2005 )
- Too often associated with chaos and disorder, anarchism is actually an ideology rooted in a radical theory of education, says Judith Suissa
- Not the Natural History Museum: a trip to the Genesis Expo (by Padraig Reidy, May/June 2005 )
- Padraig Reidy misses a few links in Portsmouth Harbour
- Class Action (by Marilyn Mason, September/October 2004 )
- Marilyn Mason applauds the inclusion of humanism in the new Religious Education
- Why I'm glad my daughter had under-age sex (by Sally Feldman, July/August 2004 )
- Amid the clamours for censorship, celibacy and an end to teenagers' rights to confidentiality, Sally Feldman fulminates against the misguided moral crusaders
- Plus Ca Change (by Editorial Staff, Winter 2002 )
- An occasional column dedicated to items from the past that ring a familiar note in the present
- Schools for a multicultural society (by Marilyn Mason, Summer 2002 )
- Marilyn Mason, education officer of the British Humanist Association, argues that humanists can make common cause with religious groups that suffer discrimination in schools.
- Stifled Steps: Islam and Education (by Azam Kamguian, Spring 2002 )
- Azam Kamguian argues that progressive education is secular education and that Islamic education is predicated on sexual apartheid.
- Faith or Farce (by Keith Porteous Wood, Spring 2002 )
- Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, watched from the sidelines as the House of Commons debated the future of faith schools.
- Natural Born Philosophers (by Stephen Law, Summer 2001 )
- Children are natural born philosophers argues Stephen Law
- Film review: The Class (by Fred Rowson, Web Exclusive, March 2009)
- This acclaimed story of a year in a Paris classroom captures school life brilliantly, says Fred Rowson
- Bless this tiger (by Paul Sims, Web Exclusive, August 2009)
- Paul Sims visits a zoo with a difference
- For uselessness! (by Nina Power, Web Exclusive, June 2010)
- In the UK the axe is falling on philosophy departments. Nina Power reports from the frontline
- Bunnies, chicks and brutal torture (by Myra Zepf, Web Exclusive, March 2012)
- Humanist parent Myra Zepf confronts the perils of the Easter festivities
