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“This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle… This other Eden… This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, dear for her reputation through the world, is now leased out… England, bound in with the triumphant sea whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege of watery Neptune, is now bound in with […]
Continue ReadingThe Provost of Worcester College has defended his role in encouraging the controversial changes to the GCSE English syllabus made by Michael Gove last week. In an article written for The Guardian, Jonathan Bate, the current Provost at Worcester College and a Professor of the University English faculty, proclaimed his support for the changes. He […]
Continue ReadingWith the latest governmental plans to open a free boarding school in Sussex and the scandal surrounding fee estimates, the issues of funding education and the difference between academies and free schools has fuelled the open fire all over again. The utopian but dreary child of Adonis and New Labour, the Academy, free from local […]
Continue ReadingBy 2018 the ‘English Baccalaureate’ – a pastiche certificate including English, Maths, History/Geography and a language – is intended to replace GCSEs as England’s standard 16-plus measure of academic attainment. Michael Gove announced the move in order to counter the “grade inflation and dumbing down” engendered by GCSEs. Gove’s exam would not only be harder, […]
Continue ReadingEducation Secretary Michael Gove approves link between Oxford and academies
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