Quite apart from the social, family and individual benefits of improved SEND education, I suspect that in the longer run it pays for itself too by producing better adjusted adults that escape being p… (View Post)

Yes, a large part of why the populist right is so anti-university is because they do not want a population that thinks critically and challenges authority. If any one is to go at all it is for techni… (View Post)

If it really matters then test them on Excel at the interview rather than rely on their puffery. One big shift in Medical interviews over the years is to have task based stations as part of Multiple … (View Post)

A lot of the quoted costs of running medical courses is subsidy of Teaching Hospitals and also of Research Academics. Indeed the Academics in my department have no undergraduate teaching commitments … (View Post)

Other countries send as many to tertiary education including most of our peers. The Germans send 35% and Italy 20%, but on the other hand South Korea sends 65%. What we need is better courses and con… (View Post)