Education Forum Podcast 30: Defence of Subjects

The latest Education Forum podcast is available for download now.             

Daisy Christodoulou (managing director, The Curriculum Centre), Martin Johnson (deputy general secretary, Association of Teachers and Lecturers), Tim Oates (group director of Assessment Research and Development, Cambridge Assessment) and Alka Sehgal Cuthbert (PhD researcher, education, University of Cambridge) debate the return of subjects. Should the return to a subject-based education be applauded? Does it represent backward-looking nostalgia or an attempt to democratise access to powerful knowledge? 

Click on the triangle below to listen, or here to download. 

Education Forum Podcast No 29: What Makes a Good School?

The latest Education Forum podcast is available for download now.

David Paton, the head of Radnor House School, examines the factors that contributed to his school being rated ‘outstanding’ in every OfSTED inspection category.

Click on the triangle below to listen, or here to download.

EF Podcast No. 28: Understanding Understanding

 a critique of Kant on education

The latest Education Forum podcast is available for download now. Education Forum member Dennis Hayes introduces Kant’s critical philosophy and examines its philosophical limitations.

Click on the triangle below

Or to download the podcast, click here

To download the lecture notes, click here  

EF Podcast No. 27: Who runs the classroom?

The latest Education Forum podcast is available for download now. Education Forum member Kevin Rooney asks: who runs the classroom today? With responses from Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert, Shirley Lawes, Toby Marshall, Sally Millard and Mark Taylor.

Click on the triangle below

Or to download the podcast, click here

Towards a Subject-Based Curriculum

Towards a subject-based curriculum is a response to the interim report of the 'expert panel' which is reviewing the English National Curriculum.

The Institute of Ideas’ Education Forum members welcomed aspects of the report. However, they felt that the case for a subject-based curriculum for all children was lost in a publication that tries to be ‘all things to all people’.

The Education Forum members asked themselves a simple question: ‘What needed to be said?’

Read The Framework for the National Curriculum here

Read the responses here

(you will need to set up a Scribd account to download and print)

Education Forum member Dennis Hayes argues against the banning of friendship in UK schools

To read the article click here: ‘Johnny No Mates’:the new role model

EF Podcast No. 26: The Return to Subjects

The latest Education Forum podcast is available for download now. Professor Michael Young, author of Bringing Knowledge Back In, examines the return to subjects and the case for 'powerful knowledge'. With questions from Education Forum member Toby Marshall.

Click on the triangle below

Or to download the podcast, click here

A one-sided, if also enthusiastic, Antidote review of A Defence of Subject-Based Education

To read the review click here

University admissions

By what process should students be admitted to university?

Institute of Ideas director Claire Fox leads a discussion with Education Forum member Dennis Hayes, and a variety of other witnesses and contributors, including Michael Portillo (maker of documentaries and former Minister of Defence), Matthew Taylor (Chief Executive of the Royal Society of the Arts) and Wes Streeting (Chief Executive of the Helena Kennedy Foundation).

Click here to listen

EF member in the Huffington Post

Education Forum member Denis Hayes argues that education is bad for you

Education Forum Podcast No. 25: The Education Forum's Response to A Framework for the National Curriculum

The latest Education Forum podcast is available for download now. Education Forum member Mark Taylor leads the Education Forum response, with additional comments from Kevin Rooney, Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert, Denis Hayes and Toby Marshall.

Click on the triangle below

Or to download the podcast, click here