Learning To Live – Educated by Tara Westover
‘Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery/ None but ourselves can free our mind’. These lyrics from Bob Marley’s ‘Redemption Song’ course through Tara Westover’s 2018...
DEBATE: Should private schools be taxed?
Jeremy Corbyn recently called for private schools to lose their charitable status, and therefore become taxed. Is this the right thing to do?
Secret police database harvested Prevent data from education sector
The database contains personal details and reasons for referral for every person referred to the programme.
Of the 7,318 people were referred to Prevent in 2017-8, 2,426 were referred from the education sector.
And you thought it’s bad over here…
The educational segregation in this country that you didn't even know was happening .
Popping the all-boy bubble
How much do the benefits of an all-boy education outweigh the costs?
The UK’s education system is unfit for purpose
Myopic obsession with academic attainment harms student welfare and reduces the education system to a game
Inequality at universities is a symptom, not a cause
Social injustice occurs before students even apply
Our prudish British culture means the death of good sex
The UK’s approach to sex education is dated and dangerous
More offers for women than men for first time
This year’s intake of freshers was made up of a total of 1,070 18-year-old women, compared to 1,025 men
You do the maths: why aren’t female mathematicians getting firsts?
Despite the department’s best efforts, the gender discrepancy in results for BA Maths increased this year
The UK education system needs to evolve
Mark Roper argues that an understanding of evolution is vital to modern society, and that schools must adapt to reflect this.
Oxford University is a risky investment
Michael Shao debates whether he would add the University of Oxford to his hypothetical portfolio of investments
Yangon University is modelled on Oxford, but there are no dreaming spires
Mia Millman explores the history of university in Burma and imagines life without education
Oxford heads sign open letter for EU residency rights
Vice-Chancellor and heads of 35 Colleges and PPHs write in support of Lords amendment to guarantee EU residency rights
