education category
My second letter in the Guardian
3 December 2009Giles Fraser argues in opposition to Ariane Sherine that “it is nonsense to pretend one can leave children alone until they can choose their values for themselves” (Comment, 2 December), but her campaign is concerned with religion, not values. Dr Fraser demonstrates one of the key problems atheists have with religion: the arrogance with which [...]
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NUS buys instrumentalist conception of HE
10 June 2009Today, the National Union of Students (NUS) published a ‘Blueprint for an alternative higher education funding system’, which it argues “puts an end to the idea that top-up fees are the only way of funding higher education”.
However, and more importantly, it reveals that the only national organisation representing students has bought the government argument that the [...]
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A view of the NUS annual conference as communicated via Twitter: day one
1 April 2009The President, Wes Streeting, opened the conference by calling for “a National Union that has ideas, capability and strength”, which must have upset all those delegates who want NUS to be hesitant, inept and weak. At least this opening salvo reassured us that this year’s conference isn’t going to feature any vapid platitudes designed to [...]
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