The Morning That Decided What You Were Worth
Somewhere in Britain, right now, there is almost certainly a primary school child being quietly coached through practice papers. Verbal…
Education
The Actuaries Who Decided That Teaching You to Read Was Good Business
There's a version of education history that everyone knows. Philanthropists with big hearts and bigger fortunes built schools. Victorian reformers…
The Prussian Schoolroom You’re Sitting In Right Now
Picture a perfectly ordinary Tuesday morning in a British primary school. Twenty-eight children, all the same age, file in at…
The Qualification Label Nobody Actually Knows How to Read
Somewhere in a drawer, or a folder, or the bottom of a bag you haven't opened since 2009, you probably…