Category: education & childhood

How to Sell a Child

There’s a new asset class being traded between corporations. It’s called children in care.

There is no natural law stating that bullies have to dominate our lives.

How can education rise to the massive challenges young people will face?

What are school exams for?

Privatisation, outsourcing, packed classrooms and a total government failure to make them safe expose schools to deadly levels of infection.

Ecology and Earth systems, from which all life flows, should be at the heart of learning.

Boarding school, a peculiarly British form of abuse, has devastating impacts not only on the boarders, but on those they grow up to dominate.

A short, simple factsheet on the impacts of traffic pollution on children’s health

My (very controversial) column on the lives for which the schooling system prepares our children.

Only by crossing social boundaries and coming together can we resist the forces that threaten to crush us.

An ability to contest the circumstances of our birth is an essential element of our humanity.

How the universities allow a corporate cult to capture and destroy their best students

Children are being airbrushed from our towns and cities. No wonder they stay indoors.

A week in the countryside is worth three months in a classroom.

How a community might recover from a horror that defies imagination.

The case for banning advertisements aimed at children is overwhelming.

Forcing schools into the hands of unelected oligarchs is the latest contradiction of everything the market fetishists claim to stand for.

The way we are governed is inexplicable – until you understand the upbringing of the elite.

Some dead children are mourned; others are dehumanised.

There’s a second environmental crisis, just as potent as the first.