The Daily Telegraph

  • One rogue pupil held up my class for a year

    The way that Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, has attempted to discipline the wayward Prince Charles makes me wonder how he would have dealt with Lancel Hendricks – one of the most difficult pupils I have ever taught. Mr Clarke is fuming because he believes that the Prince’s views about education are "old-fashioned and out […]

  • Well done, Mum – you got an A

    Many parents will have barely raised an eyebrow at Prince Harry’s alleged assertion that he wrote only a "tiny, tiny bit" of his art coursework. "Helping" their children with coursework is something many parents take for granted. Look, their argument goes, I don’t want to cheat, but if everyone else has spent weeks on a […]

  • Don’t blame Harry!

    The suggestion that Prince Harry cheated at his A-level coursework did not surprise me. According to a tape recording produced by Sarah Forsyth, Prince Harry’s art teacher at Eton, Harry says that he only wrote a “tiny, tiny bit” of his Art coursework: the rest was apparently written by Miss Forsyth. Any experienced teacher knows […]

  • Now I know selection works

    Selection is a taboo word in the Labour Party. So much so that, in his five-year plan for schools unveiled last week, the Prime Minister explicitly forbade schools to select their pupils. But he wants to free the best schools from local authority control, allowing them to set their own wages and curricula and giving […]