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Kristina Murkett

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The rise of the Oxbridge AI admissions cheat

‘This is the future, my wife says./ We are already there, and it’s the same/ as the present.’ So begins Ciaran O’Driscoll’s poem ‘Please...

12.03.2026 6

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Screen time is rotting the brains of Britain's toddlers

23.01.2026 8

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The truth about the surge in home-schooling

16.01.2026 10

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Why misogyny lessons for schoolboys will backfire

19.12.2025 30

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In praise of learning German

21.11.2025 10

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Dark days / Daylight savings is anti-feminist

28.10.2025 10

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Baby steps / Motherhood is tougher and lovelier than I could imagine

13.10.2025 10

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State school kids will pay for Labour’s International Baccalaureate crackdown

10.10.2025 6

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Why kids won’t learn languages

24.09.2025 10

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Free childcare shouldn’t just be for working mothers

04.09.2025 9

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ChatGPT is a narcissist

25.08.2025 10

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GCSE English language isn’t fit for purpose

21.08.2025 10

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Teachers deserve their long summer holidays

25.07.2025 6

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Every boy needs a strong male role model in their life

11.07.2025 6

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Labour owes it to special needs children to reform SEND

08.07.2025 3

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The biggest reason people aren’t having babies? FOMO

04.07.2025 5

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Education / Bridget Phillipson can’t be trusted to fix Britain’s schools

28.06.2025 7

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Education / Bridget Phillipson can’t be trusted to fix Britain’s schools

28.06.2025 7

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Bridget Phillipson can’t be trusted to fix Britain’s schools

28.06.2025 8

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The sad decline of reading

13.06.2025 10

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Child stars and the curse of Harry Potter

30.05.2025 7

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Bonnie Blue deserves to be cancelled

09.05.2025 10

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Bridget Phillipson’s Ofsted reforms are a mess

29.04.2025 5

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Politics / How Trump could reverse America’s baby bust

26.04.2025 6

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How Trump could reverse America’s baby bust

26.04.2025 6

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In defence of ‘free’ breakfast clubs

23.04.2025 4

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The teachers’ union should be on the side of private schools

17.04.2025 5

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Tablet time / There’s an obvious reason pre-school children are falling behind

16.04.2025 6

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Fixing free childcare would be an easy win for Labour

14.03.2025 10

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In defence of single-sex schools

13.03.2025 10

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Strict schools are sapping the joy out of learning

12.02.2025 10

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Losing faith / How The Traitors betrayed itself

15.01.2025 10

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The problem with ‘diversifying’ the curriculum

As an English teacher, one of my favourite poems to teach, to pupils of almost all ages, is Chinua Achebe’s ‘Vultures’. In the poem, the speaker...

01.01.2025 10

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Labour’s decision to axe Latin lessons is an act of cultural vandalism

The Labour government seems determined to undermine excellence in schools. The Department for Education has announced that from February it will be...

21.12.2024 4

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