Interview: Michael Symmons Roberts, poet, author

‘If I knew what I wanted to say, I’d just say it’

Decline ‘turns to growth’

‘Wesley’s genius was a realisation that perhaps we don’t need buildings’

To lose them all looks like carelessness

‘Historians have been slow to appreciate the importance of the parsonage’

Maggie Durran: Enduring proof

The word “sustainability” keeps coming up in the work we are doing

EDUCATION: Celebrating excellence in the classroom

When Ms Gott, who retired at the end of the summer term, first became head of St John’s, Bradford, 23 years ago, it was an unpopular and struggling First...

EDUCATION: It shall be upon their shoulders

NOT MANY school governors would sit up half the night waiting to deliver new piglets on the school farm

EDUCATION: Crash! Here comes the head

IN SEPTEMBER 2002, when Greig City Academy, sponsored by the dio­cese of London and the Greig Trust, opened its doors, it was, by a few days, the first...

EDUCATION: Cathedrals give schools a ruff time

I HAVE vivid memories of a school trip to Coventry Cathedral just after its opening in 1962.

EDUCATION: Colleges face up to recession fear

THE PAST DECADE has been a relatively bountiful one for higher education.

EDUCATION: Inspired to help schoolchildren

NO WONDER so many 11-year-olds find the leap from primary school to compre­hensive a daunting one.

EDUCATION: New guide to RE

AS PART of a million-pound pack­age to support religious education in England, the Schools Minis­ter, Jim Knight, announced in Jan­uary that the Government...

EDUCATION: Assemblies that come off the peg

A NEW academic year begins, and, says The Observer, teachers have never been as stressed.



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