Inside Education
Schools must teach pupils about babies, Aids and sex
Richard Garner: Lessons made compulsory from the age of five but faith schools given right to dissent
Leading Article: Thinking matters
There should be less need for an independent school like Wellington College to appoint a thinker-in-residence to develop pupils' thinking skills than for a state school to do so. After all, Wellington is free from the national currciculum and can decide what it wants to teach for itself.
Forget agricultural training - today's trendy subjects are horticulture and pets
Its name may not roll off the tongue easily but medicinal horticulture is the course to be on since the BBC began its series Grow Your Own Drugs this year.
How Academe is helping students - and the nation - survive the slump
The notion that universities are ivory towers, training people to do useless and self-indulgent things, is being put to rest in the recession – because many universities are falling over themselves to lay on short courses for unemployed people or arrange industry placements for their graduates.
- A new generation of cyber-sleuths is on the trail of electronic crime
- Andrew Oswald: This is how St Andrews can be a top university
- Furious battle of words: Academics and students at Sussex University are opposing cuts to linguistics courses
- Diary Of A Fresher: My effort at financial wizardry has backfired
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• Dominic Lawson: Higher taxes will drive businesses abroad
I was in the Commons when my father removed the old higher rates
• Mary Dejevsky: The US relies on experts – we ignore them
US academics are needed outside the ivory tower
• Terence Blacker: No lessons in fairness please, Harriet
Ms Harman's proposal is less an equality bill than a niceness bill