Reintroduce the grammar schools: with a few small alterations | Alex Brown
The main selling point of grammar schools is that they promote social mobility and this is certainly true. Evidence from the Education Policy Institute suggests that disadvantaged students who did not attend grammar school in areas of selection achieved 1.2 grades lower than their grammar school-attending counter-parts. This is clear empirical proof of the success of grammar schools at a younger age in terms of education. But looking further to later life in terms of earnings one study has suggested that grammar schools absolutely benefit the earnings of those who attend them, using the lives of students from the 1950’s and later as evidence.
The state of British education: requiring old solutions and missing morality | Alex Brown
All successive governments have done is throw money at the problem. The one time some real change was in sight, it was with David Cameron’s academy system, and even he managed to poorly execute it in pursuit of marketisation. It may come as no surprise that I intend to discuss the problems facing the British education system today then; from bottom to top, for all ages, as well as outline how the solutions of educational diversity and reintroduction of morality offer a new opportunity to restructure the system in favour of tried and tested methods because fundamentally there is no need to ‘reinvent the wheel’ when it comes to education, only modify it.
Catholic Social Teaching, waning Anglicanism, and the antidote to purposeless secular education | Tom Colsy
Recently, standardisation has been the order of the day in the education sector; variety has been the enemy. With an ever more religiously diverse population, the tradition of passing down Christian values, at least in the overt sense, is one that has gradually withered in our institutions and schools. And this means we have also lost the wisdom that comes with it.