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The ideological tug-of-war over our schools | Print |  Email
The research also points to something extraordinary: if those poor children are broken up and distributed throughout the education system, learning alongside middle-class and rich kids, they start to do far better...And the middle-class kids who were suddenly learning alongside children from the trailer parks did not suffer: their results remained the same, writes Johann Hari in The Independent
 
Richer yet no happier, unmarried yet fewer sexual partners – survey reveals the truth about Britons | Print |  Email
People are leading longer and wealthier lives than they were 35 years ago but are oddly no more content, according to the most thorough analysis of the state of Britain today, writes Ben Russell, Political Correspondent of the Independent.
 
Church leaders clash over embryos | Print |  Email
A LEADER of the Scottish Episcopal Church says Cardinal Keith O'Brien was wrong to call for a halt to hybrid-embryo research, claiming the work is the last hope of treatment for many in suffering, reports Craig Brown in The Scotsman
 
it is not a shift to the left to insist that entry to schools should be fair | Print |  Email
Church leaders privately admit their discomfort at the bad name their schools have acquired as havens for sharp-elbowed middle-class parents; they have not forgotten that their founding purpose was to teach the disadvantaged. A fair admissions code is not a stick to beat them with, but a tool they can use, writes Jonathan Freedland in Comment is Free
 
BBC is too scared of Islam, says Ben Elton | Print |  Email
Ben Elton has accused the BBC of unjust political correctness by allowing jokes about vicars but vetoing gags about imams, writes Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent of The Times
 
Schools named and shamed as crackdown launched to stop abuse of admissions law | Print |  Email
Ministers launched a crackdown on schools covertly selecting pupils yesterday after government research confirmed that up to one in six schools could be breaking admissions laws. One north London school asked parents to commit to paying £895 a term when they applied, and another demanded £650, reports Polly Curtis, education editor of The Guardian
 
A job for the wealthy and connected | Print |  Email
How can journalism truly reflect society when entry to the profession relies on wealth, geography, and parents prepared to pay the wages that employers will not? asks Peter Wilby in The Guardian
 
Boycotting the Beijing Olympics won't work, but here's a proposal that just might | Print |  Email
It's not the protesters who politicise the Olympics, it's the Chinese dictatorship, writes Johann Hari in The Independent
 
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