September 18th, 2006
The Dire Straits got away with this line in their song “Romeo and Juliet”, but the sad truth is, this is how most GCSE students learn possibly the most famous love story in the world.
A recent Times Education Supplement article highlighted this unsavoury handling of one of our national treasures, which is down to–as I […]
August 26th, 2006
Pauline Davies, head of £23,100-a-year Wycombe Abbey School, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, insisted that the qualification [A-Level] needs to become more challenging. This is because some of the cleverest pupils are being held back by papers which demand mechanistic answers rather than ones which show real flair and deep thinking. She spoke out yesterday as […]
June 17th, 2006
Not exactly along the same lines but reminded me of Red Dust that showed similar corruption and cover-up.
I found The Constant Gardener very powerful, the veins of symbolism settled into the subconscious. You would have thought that the title itself–”Constant Gardener”–is metaphorical clap-trap, but really it isn’t. Without saying too much when he starts raking […]