How Old Should You Be Before Work Stops Owning You?
In 1870, a ten-year-old in a Lancashire cotton mill was not a child who happened to have a job. He…
Education
The School Fee That Has Nothing To Do With School
Walk past a school like Eton or Harrow and you might wonder what, exactly, you are paying for. Teachers, buildings,…
The Inflation Figure the Government Disqualified (And Then Kept Using)
The UK Statistics Authority in 2013 examined one of the two official measures of inflation in Britain, the RPI (Retail…
The Ghost in the Classroom
Walk into almost any secondary school in Britain and you will notice something odd: thirty children all facing the same…
The Recipe You Can Read a Thousand Times and Still Not Know
Imagine you're handed a recipe for a Nigerian-Mexican fusion dish – jollof rice spiked with chipotle, say, or a suya-spiced…
The Theory That Refuses to Die
Somewhere around year eight, a teacher probably told you something about yourself. You're a visual learner, she said, or an…