Parenting news: archive
The babysitter from cyberspace
The Times (London), 20 May 2008
Imagine the terror at leaving my child in the care of an internet nanny. By Chris Ayres in LA.
The phone for six-year-olds
The Times (London), 20 May 2008
Hello Kitty mobile phones will hit the high street in July, sparking further fears over marketing of phones for children.
Praying for good results
The Times (London), 20 May 2008
Students are being offered online prayers to cope with exam stress.
School standards have stalled, says Ofsted
The Times (London), 20 May 2008
The Chief Inspector of Schools fears that the attainment gap between rich and poor shows no signs of closing.
‘Paedophile scares are always driven by the elite’
spiked, 19 May 2008
As the Jersey children’s home ‘bone’ turns out to be a piece of coconut, Richard Webster tells spiked the case reveals much about moral panics. By Brendan O’Neill.
High price to pay for youth’s folly
The Times (London), 19 May 2008
Images of dying young people don't change behaviour; and leave behind an undignified memory. By Carol Sarler.
Parents to get power to call in school inspectors
The Times (London), 19 May 2008
New reforms will enable parents to instigate an Ofsted inspection of a school if they feel that teachers are falling short.
Bridge the class chasm in schooling
The Times (London), 19 May 2008
Independent schools should set up many more free academies; and we'd all share the benefit. By Anthony Seldon.
Eton opens its doors to state-school pupils
The Times (London), 19 May 2008
Eton College is to throw open its classroom doors to state school pupils under a partnership designed to raise standards.
The queen feminist thinking twice about employing young women
Sunday Times (London), 18 May 2008
Rosie Boycott fights for women’s rights but also runs a business and says the plan to extend flexi-work for parents is ruinous.
Waste mounts as £100 billion web of quangos duplicates work
Sunday Times (London), 18 May 2008
The cost of Britain’s “hidden state” of unelected public bodies has soared to more than £100 billion a year, new research has revealed.
MPs must stay out of family planning
Sunday Times (London), 18 May 2008
Antediluvian lobbyists and their press allies shriek ‘hybrid’ and ‘Frankenstein’ yet nobody is planning to create monsters. By Simon Jenkins.
In the Beginning, There Was Woman - Affirmation for my Sisters
Close to the root, 17 May 2008
One of the enormous benefits of retiring from a profession ostensibly devoted to "women" and "babies" and "choice" and "freedom" is that I now get to live alongside those terms in totality instead of within the limited context of a job description. By Kneelingwoman.
SATs waste far too much time
The Times (London), 16 May 2008
I don't mind my children being given regular short tests. But SATs have become an obsession. By Mick Hume.
Men urged to make use of new flexible working rights
The Times (London), 16 May 2008
Fathers have been urged to make use of new rights to work part-time when the Government extends the law on flexible employment in April.
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