Posts Tagged ‘Finland’

Why should the state bail out failing private schools?

More than a hundred private schools are predicted to make the move in the state sector in the next decade according to former schools minister Lord Adonis. Should we be delighted, or dismayed? Most people would probably think any reduction in the number of “fee charging” schools in our highly stratified education system is a […]

Education Tue 12 Apr

Why we need a ‘Better Bacc’

Link to original Guardian article When I was 18, I went to America for a gap year.  It was the dark ages in terms of modern technology and I spent ten months without speaking to my parents, corresponding intermittently by post.  True, I had left school, but this followed teenage years punctuated by equally rare […]