Buying authenticity: plagiarism checking and counter-checking
Alex Tabarrok on Marginal Revolution posted about how the software company Turnitin is not just helping schools detect student plagiarism, but also providing WriteCheck, a tool for checking that a...
View ArticleShould some people be barred from pursuing higher education?
By Luke Davies Luke can now be followed on Twitter. Anders Breivik, the 34-year-old Norwegian man responsible for the death of 77 and wounding of 232 people in an attack in 2011, has been enrolled in...
View ArticleBreaking the mould: genetics and education
Tonight I participated in BBC’s “The Moral Maze”, discussing the recent reactions to a report by Dominic Cummings, an advisor to the education secretary, that mentioned that genetic factors have a big...
View ArticleGet your nasty Platonic hands off my kids, Mr. Gove
My book of the year, by a very wide margin, is Jay Griffiths’ splendid ‘Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape’ (Hamish Hamilton, 2013). Amongst her many virtues is a loathing of Plato’s Republic. Here...
View ArticleGuest Post: Genetics education, genetic determinism, and the trickle-down effect
Written By Johanna Ahola-Launonen University of Helsinki In bioethical discussion, it is often debated whether or not some studies espouse genetic determinism. A recent study by Tuomas Aivelo and Anna...
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Private education: in defence of hypocrisy
(Photo: Daily Telegraph) I am a bitter opponent of private education. All my political hackles rise whenever the subject is mentioned. Yet of my four currently school-aged children, one (‘A’) is...
View ArticleGuest Post: What Is The Case For Virtual Schooling?
Written by Thomas Moller-Nielsen News that children in England were to switch to online schooling as part of the country’s third national lockdown in response to the Covid-19 global pandemic was met...
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