Category: FORUM
Opening the book: in memory of Jane Ogborn
Patrick Yarker pays tribute to a former colleague whose work developing ‘alternative’ English Literature exams helped students become wiser readers.
MOREBecause we value our children’s future…
In advance of next month’s Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture, Jane Martin commends Caroline Benn’s staunch advocacy of comprehensive education and her sustained adherence to its ideals.
MOREReady the ground
Ahead of the Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture, Patrick Yarker argues the need to move beyond a discourse of fixed ‘ability’ in the long struggle for a comprehensive education service so powerfully advocated by Caroline Benn
MORECrossing the border
The Summer number of Forum, whose theme is ‘Changing Times’, is introduced by Patrick Yarker
MORE
Call for Papers: Spring 2025
Contributions are invited for the Spring 2025 number of FORUM (67.1). Copy date is Friday 15 November 2024
MOREChange?
With the General Election campaign well under way, Patrick Yarker, writing in a personal capacity, considers a number of aspects of Labour’s education policy as presented in the party’s Manifesto
MORE
Call for Papers: Reconstructing Adult Education for the Common Good
Contributions are invited for the Autumn 2024 number of Forum (66.3) for which the copy date is Monday 22 July
MORETelling stories
Ofsted’s English subject report tells a story the Department for Education will be happy to hear. Patrick Yarker takes issue, and celebrates the publication of FORUM’s Spring 2024 number.
MORE