UK trails Poland and Bulgaria on adults educated to A-level standard Lecturers’ union says European data shows Britain risks languishing in ‘mid-table obscurity’ due to rising cost of learning We should therefore reduce the cost of learning by paying lecturers less and having fewer of them. There, job done. Not quite what I’d expect the

What’s more, the initial years of studying a language are tough: there is no escape from the grind of learning how to conjugate verbs, construct sentences and to absorb enough words to begin to understand what is written and said. To elect to do this, young boys and girls need to know that, like practising

Britain needs to provide real alternatives to higher education, including a better system of vocational training

Hundreds of soldiers from 3rd battalion The Parachute Regiment spent last week learning how to contain and arrest "rioters" in a series of exercises mirroring last summers violence. Defence sources have confirmed that if violence were to return to British cities, especially during the Olympic Games, the Paras would be "ideally placed" to provide "short-term" support to police forces around the UK....

Banker bashing has become something of a national pastime, and politicians have been quick to join in. But rather than devoting their energy to avenging past sins, our political leaders might be better off learning the lessons of Dan Ariely’s book, The Upside of Irrationality. In this valuable work, Ariely shows that the incentive of big bonuses can actually damage performance, not improve i...

Many of the differences between American and British election campaigns are not the result of American campaigners having good ideas the British should copy, but rather are the result of four key legal differences between the two countries.

There will be a four-month consultation process to decide the future of the Department for Employment and Learning.

If you don't know, you need to start learning about it. This is one law that I strongly believe Congress will screw up in a big way, and I'm not going to sit quietly like I did with the Patriot Act. I'm almost convinced that only people who have indifference or contempt for American ideals like liberty and freedom would support this law. Go to Wikipedia today, you will be given info...

Learning the lessons of previous failures is vital, according to a recent study from the Institute for Government

Dymaxicon doesn't accept 'submissions'. I'm not a particularly submissive person, and I have always resented that writers were always cast in a submissive role... no one should ever be in the position of accepting or rejecting. So says California-based Samizdatista Hillary Johnson about Dymaxicon, the new model publishing company she set up as an imprint of Agile Learning Labs....