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Latest TV: Climate Change debate @ Graveney School...
January 2009
Latest article: Students deserve more than 'crippling simplicity'
16 March 2009
Latest speech: Should schools teach creationism?
11 February 2009
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December 2008
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Should creationism be taught in schools?
Hosted by the Institute of Ideas and the Humanist Society Scotland at the National Library Scotland
11 February 2008
National Library Scotland, Edinburgh
Should schools teach creationism?
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Alex McLellan, Founder and Executive Director of Reason Why
Dave Perks, Head of Physics at Graveney School in London
Christopher Brookmyre, Novelist, including Boiling a Frog
Julian Baggini, writer and philosopher
Marc Surtees, Paradigm Shift
Chair - Tiffany Jenkins, Institute of Ideas
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The Corruption of the Curriculum
11 June 2007

'Britain's cultural elites prefer to turn every one of their concerns into a school subject' - Frank Furedi
The school curriculum has been corrupted by political interference, according to a new report from independent think-tank Civitas. The traditional subject areas have been hi-jacked to promote fashionable causes such as gender awareness, the environment and anti-racism, while teachers are expected to help to achieve the government's social goals instead of imparting a body of academic knowledge to their students..
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Climate Change Debate on Green TV
January 2009
Graveney sixth form debating society hosted "Is climate change the greatest threat to humanity?" and took on the educational organiser of the Inteligence Squared Green Festival on Climate Change.
January 2009
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IoI Education Forum Podcast
December 2008
The sixth in a series of post-forum podcasts is available to download here. Listen to Education Forum members Mark Taylor, Toby Marshall, Dennis Hayes, Shirley Lawes and David Perks discuss several current news items.
December 2008: Download mp3 (27:36; 128kb)
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Students deserve more than 'crippling simplicity'
16 March 2009 spiked
Manchester Grammar, one of the leading independent schools in England, announced last week that it would be the first school to stop putting its students forward for the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) altogether. Its decision, made in response to the latest reforms of the GCSE examinations, has rocked an already fragile schools examination system.
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I have been a physics teacher in state secondary schools in Britain since 1987. I currently run a successful physics department at Graveney School a comprehensive school in Tooting, South London.
I am a passionate defender of academic science education. I wrote a highly critical response to the new GCSE science curriculum "What is science education for?". The education reformers are determined to impose relevance onto school science lessons. In my opinion this is a denial of a sound science education to a generation.