Education & Children

Deep Springs

Re-thinking the university

It's time to stop adopting an endless stream of top-down, homogeneous solutions. Could micro-universities be the answer?

Durham Free School

A lesson in failure

Issues at religious free schools have raised serious questions about the direction of education policy in Britain.

Olknow Academy

Schools for scandal

Allegations of an Islamist plot to take over Birmingham schools caused a national outcry. What really happened?

Noah's Ark illustration by Martin Rowson

Stop arking about

It’s regarded as a cuddly Bible tale for children – but is the story of Noah and God’s “genocidal tantrum” really so appropriate?

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