Suffer Little Children
With a new creationist academy opening this month, and the prospect of dozens more Church schools on the way, Marilyn Mason advises on how to mount effective opposition.
Education & Children
Bringing Up Baby
Jan Fortune-Wood gleans nothing useful from a revolutionary child-rearing manual
Plus Ca Change
An occasional column dedicated to items from the past that ring a familiar note in the present
Relatively Speaking
Michael Rosen wonders where the modern family ends
Stifled Steps: Islam and Education
Azam Kamguian argues that progressive education is secular education and that Islamic education is predicated on sexual apartheid.
Faith or Farce
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.
Schools for a multicultural society
Marilyn Mason, education officer of the British Humanist Association, argues that humanists can make common cause with religious groups that suffer discrimination in schools.
Learning in a refugee camp
Marnie Smith visits a school on the Pakistan and Afghanistan that is feeding the hunger for learning.
Natural Born Philosophers
Children are natural born philosophers argues Stephen Law
Little monsters
Caspar Melville speaks up for dragons, dinosaurs and devils