Education

Learning in the Classroom

Richard Willis believes the government should pay attention to the history of teacher-training in its plans for school-based training schemes for graduates.

Homes in the Country?

A recent government initiative suggests Britain is failing in its policies towards children in care. Jad Adams explains how similar concerns a hundred years ago lay behind the development of the first children’s ‘village homes’.

What Did Medieval Schools Do For Us?

Nicholas Orme returns to the classroom to find out how boys, and girls, were educated from the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors; and finds that the foundations of our education system were laid during this period.

Candid Culture

Juliet Gardiner reviews the current exhibition at Tate Liverpool that celebrates the British flair for documentary film-making.