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1. The Brain

What is Neuroplasticity? — Washington University
What is Neuroplasticity? — Neuroplastics
How social media is rewiring the brain — Dr Dan Siegel, Utube
Heritability of IQ in young children — Eric Turkheimar + others, American Psychological Society
Learning physically changes the brain — Sara Bernard, Eduopia
Benefits of Neuroplasticity — Joao Medeiro, Wired magasine
Raise your IQ instantly — by no longer believing in it — Roger Highfield, Wired magasine
How the brain learns (1) — Donald Ford, Training Industry
How the brain learns (2) — Project Flexner
Brain research & Education, Fad or Foundation; — Pat Wolf
How the brain works best — Dr Bruce Perry, Schoolastics

Give children time to learn — Brenwen Jeffreys, BBC Education editor
First Bite: How we learnt to eat by Bee Wilson. — Reviewed by R Cooke, Guardian
What is it like not to smell? The neglected sense. — Kathy Clugston, BBC Radio Four

Why boredom is anything but boring — Maggie Koerth-Baker, Nature
Internet manners, Behaving Ourselves, — David Mitchell & Sherry Turkle, BBC Radio 4
“Children need to learn to beat boredom” says Nicky Morgan — Steven Swinford, Telegraph
60% of students are bored — Sandi Mann, The Guardian
Why are so many students bored? — Schunk/Pintrich/Meece, Education
Causes and cures for class boredom — Seth Livingstone, Learning Liftoff
The Psychology of boredom — Adam Sinicki, Health Guidance

Imagination can change what we hear and see — Karolinska Institutet
Scientists say we can see sound — Robin Nixon, Live Science
The Sound Book review — Professor Trevor Cox,

Face blindness - when you can’t recognise a familiar face — Kate Szell, Guardian
Impact of Prosopagnosia — NHS Choices

Genetics and intelligence differences: five special findings — R Plomin and I J Deary, Nature
Maths and Reading — Prof Robert Plomin, Kings College London.
Intelligence is 50% genetic — Professor Plomin, BBC Radio 4, Life Scientific
GCSE results are down to your GENES: DNA plays a part in exams — Colin Fernandez, Daily Mail

Colour Vision Deficiency (CVD) — Colour Blind Awareness
Colour blindness — Scope
Test your colour vision — EnChroma
Understanding Visual Processing Issues — Beth Arky, Understood Org
Aphantasia: A life without mental images — James Gallagher, BBC Health

 
2. System

We don’t need educational reform, we need a whole new system — Martin Stephen
’The education system is a dangerous myth’ — Sir Ken Robinson, TES
The case for 21st–century learning — Andreas Schleicher, OECD education director
The trouble with education is the politicians keep trying to fix it — Rowntree Foundation
Government policies improving UK schools had no effect — Parliamentary Inquiry
Seven big myths about top-performing school systems — A Schleicher, OECD education director
9 ideas Education is having trouble responding to — Terri Heick
It’s time to tackle the myths in education — Tom Bennett, ResearchED
Stop tinkering with school structures & invest in teachers instead? — Richard Garner, Independent
Qualifications “no longer a barrier to getting afoot in the door” — Judith Burns, BBC Education
China schools are testing factories. Why is Britain copying? — Simon Jenkins, The Guardian

Hirsch’s idea of “Cultural Literacy” arrives in UK — Fran Abrams, The Guardian
E.D. Hirsch on ‘Cultural Literacy’ — New Learning
Michael Young — Unleashing the power of knowledge for all — Spiked Online
Michael Young — Knowledge of the powerful and Powerful knowledge — Shifting Thinking

Education in the Future Tense — Alvin Toffler 1971
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler 1971 — Wikipedia
Future Shock at 40: Right or wrong — Greg Lindsay Fast Company
Learning by doing — Kate McGee, Headteacher Manor Primary School

The four pillars of FLIP and Review of Flipped Learning. — Flipped Learning
A Brief History of Education — Peter Gray, Psychology Today

Deeply elitist UK locks out diversity at top — Judith Burns, BBC Education
Finland’s ‘teaching by topics’ instead of ‘by subjects’ — Richard Garner, Independent
Nicky Morgan; Olive branches or burning bridges? — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Nicky Morgan's popularity tested if cuts ignite teachers’ wrath — Richard Garner, Independent
The school for others excluded — Dan Johnson, BBC Derbyshire
Pressure driving private school pupils to self-harm — Eleanor Harding, Daily Mail
Why education matters in this election — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Science minister and Cabinet members have no science degrees — Evening Standard
The state of the US Education Industry in 2015 — Kirsten Hicks, Edudemic
Stress of achieving academic goals may make you age quicker — Richard Garner, Independent
Poorest pupils ‘should start school aged two’ — Hannah Richardson, BBC Education
Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs — Saul McLeod, Simply Psychology
Slow Education have happy and motivated pupils — Melissa Benn

 
3. Schools

Eton Headmaster slams ‘exasperating’ exams and teacher training — Ollie Gillman, Mail Online
School behaviour expert says ‘don’t call me a tsar’ — BBC News
Ministers warn even heads rated ‘good’ could be taken over — Matt Chorley, Mailonline
New grammar school plans in tatters after lawyers step in: — Jack Doyle, Daily Mail
Pupils should stand when teachers enter the room – Chief Inspector — Matt Chorley, Mailonline
Are larger school sizes a good thing? OECD report — Peter Walker, Guardian
Number of secondary school pupils to rise by 20% in next 10 — Richard Garner, Independent
Pupils’ mental health tops head teachers' concerns — Hannah Richardson, BBC Education
Mixed results for disadvantaged pupils in academy chains — Hannah Richardson, BBC Education
Word and World reading programme — Education Endowment Foundation

Coasting schools ‘to be taken over in new drive’ — BBC Education news
‘Coasting schools’ face tough exam targets — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Action on ‘coasting’ schools. Priority No 1 says Nicky Morgan: — Richard Vaughan, TES

Schools ‘will reject requirement to teach EBacc to all’ — Hannah Richardson, BBC Education
Traditional GCSE subjects for all pupils — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Delay primary and miss secondary school start — Hannah Richardson, BBC Education
Schools ‘may look overseas for new teachers’ — Hannah Richardson, BBC Education
Selective schools for the most talented pupils to be set up — Richard Garner, Independent
Schools 'under pressure' to push pupils towards university — Graham Paton, Telegraph
Times tables ‘to be tested by age 11’ — BBC Education

I am 16 and the education system is destroying my health — Orli Vogt-Vincent, Guardian
Every child should take a ‘Life in the UK’ test to understand British — Tom Mc Taque, Mail Online
Mindfulness classes to ‘help teenagers’ mental fitness’ — Smitha Mundasad, BBC Health
Nursery schools have been ‘colonised by the middle class’ — Richard Garner, Independent
Make PSHE lessons compulsory, says Green Party MP — BBC Education
PSHE will not be made compulsory — BBC Education
School combine inset days into one week for term-time holidays — Emma Glanfield, Mail Online
Parents should be hit with BIGGER fines for taking term-time holidays — Matt Chorley, Mailonline
‘More cadets will save city youth’, says David Cameron advisor — Marco Giannanglei, Express
Anger at anti-Israel 'propaganda' promoted by teaching union — Anil Dawar, Express
Suddenly I’m teaching my child A–levels in the kitchen — Metcalfe & Trollope, Guardian

Nicky Morgan — Guardian
Nick Gibb — Guardian

 
4. Academies

Academies and Maintained schools: What do we know? — Full Fact org
Are non–academies failing to keep up? — Full Fact org
Academies do not perform significantly better than L.A. schools — Oliver Wright, Independent
Education Secretary plans to extend academies & free schools — Sarah Cassidy, Independent
Do Academies have an identity crisis? — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Academy status ‘not a silver bullet for failing schools’ — Anna Davis, Evening Standard
Free schools: Successful experiment? — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Academic heads blame ’classroom crisis’ on weak leadership — Richard Godwin, Evening Standard
Multi million investment in ‘education pods’ fails — Adam Lusher, Independent
New commission on primary assessment — Hannah Richardson, BBC Education
New London free school teaching as the ancient Greeks — Richard Garner, Independent
Does ’academy only’ sponsorship policy waste educational expertise? — Liz Lightfoot, Guardian

 
5. Further Education

Employers warn of ’skills emergency’ says CBI — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
‘Meltdown’ warning in FE college finances — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Apprentices: How easy is it to create three million more? — Lucy Hooker, BBC Business
Apprenticeship schemes with too few places to fulfil demand — Jonathan Owen, Independent
National apprenticeships could attract a new generation of trainees — Alan Smithers, Independent
Apprenticeships are not whole answer, Martin Doel, Association of Colleges — Evening Standard

Colleges are different from schools, so important to our educational system' — Sally Dicketts, TES
University alternatives are wrongly undervalued — Danae Stewart, Telegraph
UTC Reading demands smart pupils meet Ofsted ‘outstanding’ — Richard Garner, Independent
A practical curriculum guide to UTC curriculum — University Technical Colleges
Adult learning proves a privileged pastime — Darren Evans, TES

 
6. Teachers

1 in 4 school heads ‘poor’ says Chief Inspector of schools — Sian Griffiths, The Sunday Times
Teaching profession headed for crisis, lives become ‘unbearable’ — Cassidy/Clarke, Independent
Failing headteachers will be sacked says Education Secretary — Eleanor Harding, Daily Mail
Sacked for being too good — Paul Bracchi, Daily Mail
Top heads to be sent letters of recognition — Sir Michael Wilshaw, Ofsted
School heads say too many new teachers are not up to the job — Johnathan Petre, Daily Mail
Workload Challenge report, — UK Dept of Ed 2015
Teachers careers could stall unless they become markers — Javier Espinoza, Telegraph

Rising pupil numbers and teacher shortage causing uk crisis — Daniel Boffey, Guardian
A tail of two classrooms — Harnessing what works in eliminating disadvantage — DEMOS
Personality influences teacher judgement of student achievement — Taylor Fracis, Online
Could you grade 16,000 essays in just 20 seconds? — Nick Morrison, TES
Why testing isn’t just a box-ticking exercise — Alex Quigley, TES
Homework marked abroad for £2/hour freeing teachers’ time — Chris Pleasance, MailOnline
Teach First warns recruitment crisis is worse than 2002 — Dean Kelly, Synarbor education
20% sec school maths lessons taught by teacher without degree — Sarah Cassidy, Independent

 
7. Qualified teachers

You don’t need a qualification to be a good teacher — Barnaby Lenon, Telegraph
Do better qualified teachers teach better? — Cara & Coulon, NRDC
Do teachers need to be qualified? — Matt Britland, Guardian
Unqualified teachers — Full Fact Org
Teacher supply agencies searching worldwide to plug staffing gaps — Richard Garner, Independent

4000 Teachers quitting every month — Mark Ellis, Mirror News
How to turn teaching into a job that attracts high-flyers — Economist
What does the new Tory government mean for teachers? — Joe Bisham, Guardian
Private lessons available at Supermarkets — Gloucestershire Echo
Online teaching from Hong Kong — ITS Education Asia
Eton launches online lessons for China — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education

 
8. League tables

Progress 8 league tables widen to eight subjects — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Progress 8 league tables skew the headline figures — Kevin Wilson, Telegraph
Progress 8 may not mean an end to gaming the system — William Stewart, TES
League table shake-up may put 'good' schools in danger zone — William Stewart, TES
Exam changes risk problems for schools — Gillian Hargreaves, BBC Education
Schools 'disrupted by GCSE league table changes' — BBC Education
CBI head calls for GCSEs to be scrapped — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Successful schools drop league places if old-style GCSEs banned — Sarah Cassidy, Independent
MPs to launch inquiry why UK schools lag behind other countries — Richard Garner, Independent
Exam boards forced to 'estimate' hundreds of A-level results. — Stephanie Linning, Daily Mail
OCR came close to missing A-level and GCSE results — Richard Garner, Independent

Kill GCSEs before they kill our children — Martin Stephen, Telegraph
Hay fever sufferers do worse in exams — Chris Green, Independent
Exam focus damaging pupils' mental health, says NUT — BBC News
Exams put children under ‘vile, cruel pressure’, A Sheldon — Hannah Furness, Telegraph
'There's more to life than grades' says Amanda Spielman,Ofqual — Eleanor Harding, Daily Mail
School publishes list of PUPILS intelligence days before their GCSE — Richard Spillett, Daily Mail
New maths GCSEs too hard, says exams regulator — Hannah Richardson, BBC Education
Exam paper ‘errors’ leave students fuming — Judith Burns, BBC Education
One school, four catchment areas — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Clever disadvantaged children being failed by secondary schools — Sarah Cassidy, Independent
New commission on primary assessment — Hannah Richardson, BBC Education
Schools are using ‘dubious practices’ to boost results — Sarah Cassidy, Independent
GCSE league tables out early to help parents choose school — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Too many examiners may not be up to the mark — Independent

 
9. Ofsted

Ofsted purges 1,200 ‘not good enough’ inspectors — Hannah Richardson, BBC Education
Ofsted school inspections: Concerns about reliability — Judith Burns, BBC Education
Leader of headteachers calls for end to Ofsted’s ‘outstanding’ label — Richard Garner, Independent
Ofsted must focus on how ‘well rounded’ pupils are, says CBI chief — Richard Garner, Independent
I wrote about my Ofsted experience in trying to reverse the result — Geoff Barton, TES
Schools face ‘pain’ of watchdog cuts — Kaye Wiggins, TES

 
10. Creative subjects

Nicky Morgan confronted over 'troubling' decline of the arts — Sarah Cassidy, Independent
Creative subjects sidelined in response to new league table measure — Richard Vaughan, TES
The age of creativity is not dead in the UK's state schools — Richard Garner, Independent
Call to boost status of arts subjects — Abigail Simmons, BBC Education
New cooking and nutrition GCSE provokes fear — William Stewart, TES
Is cooking an art or a science — Julie Summers,
Is cooking too girly for boys? — Martin Delgado, Daily Mail

Typing takes over as handwriting lessons end: Finland — BBC Education
The Death of Handwriting — Victoria Woollaston, MailOnline

 
11. Digital world

Paper beats computer screens — Arnfinn Christensen, Science Nordic
Computers ‘do not improve’ pupil results, says OECD — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Facebook offers free education software in US — BBC Technology

Fourth Industrial Revolution brings promise and peril for humanity — Larry Elliot, Guardian
John Bremen, The “uberization” of the workforce — Colleen McCarthy, Blog

Coming to a digital office near you, jobs & technology — Economist
More guidance is now available for Online learning: — Geraldine Hackett, Independent
Is memory needed in a digital age? — Branwen Jeffreys, BBC Education
UK ‘biggest online university course’ — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Students to use search engines in exams — BBC Education
Google ’should be allowed in examinations’ — BBC Education
The brave new world of office computing — Padraig Belton, BBC Business
Tutors become part of the app culture — Tom Jackson, BBC Business
Sugata Mitra - the professor with his head in the cloud — Peter Wilby, the Guardian
Never mind Brexit, looming tech storm is the real challenge — Anthony Hilton, Evening Standard

Cloud is the saviour of your devices — PC Advisor
Chromebits – a computer on a stick. — Leo Kelion, BBC Technology
Windows 10 PC squeezed inside Quanta’s Computer plug — Leo Kelion, BBC Technology
Coding, what will the future of computing look like? — Padraig Belton, BBC Business
Educational Apps Software Services and the Data Protection Act — Department of Education

 
12. Skills gap

Skills crisis is key flaw in George Osborne's productivity plan, says CBI — Katie Allen, Guardian
Closing the skills gap will take some doing — David Harbourne, TES
UK nations have biggest skills gap says OECD, — BBC Education
UK has more graduates but without skills and social mobility — Peter Walker, Guardian
Poor productive is hampering UK’ prospects for growth — James Ashton, Evening Standard
Leading employers prefer work experience over grades — Richard Garner, Independent
Never mind 'Manpool', the UK must address talent crisis — Chris Blackhurst, Evening Standard
Technology and Jobs — Economist

Apprentice recruitment halted over funding delay — Freddie Whittaker, FE Week
Government’s 3m apprenticeships target ‘largely unfunded’ — FE Week
Heading for a precipice. Can further & HE education funding policy be sustained? — Alison Wolf
Issues and ideas on higher education. Who benefits. Who pays? — David Willetts MP
Javid MP needs to make practical skills top of the class — Jim Armitage, Evening Standard

Ensuring all pupils reach basic levels of achievement ‘could boost economy’ — OECD report
What do uni engineering departments need most? People in overalls — Professor Kel Fidler
Eight ways to encourage more students to study engineering — Clair Shaw, Guardian
We won’t get more engineering students by lowering tuition fees — Kel Fidler, Guardian
Mastering basic maths/science could earn £2 trillion extra a year — Richard Garner, Independent

 
13. Culture

How is the internet changing the way you think — Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education
Human Factors — National Association of Independent schools
Human nature — Cyber Culture
Make a virtue out of online necessity — Tom Harrison, TES
Give the arts as much weight as sciences says Sir Ken Robinson — Nick Morrison, TES
How do you instil good character? — BBC Magazine
Enriching Britain: Culture, Creativity and Growth — Warwick report
Cultural ignorance is an Achilles’ heel — Robert Peal, TES
Privilege has become increasingly heritable, America’s new aristocracy — Economist
How life in a caravan set us free — BBC Magasine

Impermanence of much digital data — Ditchley Foundation lecture
Technocracy and Technocrat by Tomasz Galka M.Sc.Eng — Tomasz Galka, M.Sc.Eng
Bureaucracy — Paul Johnson
Digital revolution — Ditchley Foundation Lecture

Duchamp’s Urinal — or is it “Fountain”? A sound play 45mins.
Sony World Photography Awards — Mail Online

 
14. Universities

University Dropouts — Why? — BBC Radio Four, April 2016
Oregon State US offers two years of free college education — Aftab Ali, Independent
Universities should ditch degree ratings for point scores says advisory group — Sarah Cassidy
Universities 'dumbing down' so more students get top class — Nick Gutteridge, Express
Universities at risk of dumbing down into secondary schools — Alister Scott
How US students get a university degree for free in Germany — Franz Strasser, BBC Germany
Attracting women to new engineering university — Richard Garner, Independent
Top universities urged to solve access problem — BBC Education
Luxury accommodation, an additional woe for student debt — Lisa Bachelor, The Guardian

Lecturers who don’t teach (but still count) — Jack Grove, Times Higher Education
Lecturers need research time off — Louise Tickle, The Guardian
Lecturers struggling on casual contracts, says union — Judith Burns, BBC Education
Warwick employing all non permanent teaching staff — Paul Gallagher, Independent

So much for A–level ‘rigour’: universities taking anyone — Laura McInerney, The Guardian
UK graduates are wasting degrees in lower-skilled jobs — Katie Allen, The Guardian
University never meant for everybody. Young people sold a lie — Julia Hartley-Brewer, Telegraph
Student gender gap in UK universities growing at an 'inexorable' rate — Aftab Ali, Independent
Value of education: UK parents that think university offers poor value — Aftab Ali, Independent
Majority of graduates 'working in a job that doesn't require a degree' — Aftab Ali, Independent
Graduate Labour Market April/June 2015 — Business Innovation & Skills

 
15. University maintenance grants/loans

Student support grants ‘could be cut’ — BBC Newsnight
Are we missing the real student debt story? — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Hidden student costs show that maintenance loans aren‘t enough — Harry Brennan, Independent
Budget 2015: Student maintenance grants scrapped — BBC Education
Osborne axes student grants and replaces them with loans, earn or learn — Daily Mail
Support emerges both for and against maintenance grants — Lucus Fothergill, Independent
Maintenance grants for poorer students ’to be scrapped’ — Andrew Grice, Independent

 
16. University/Student contracts. READ — Some universities can ruin your education

Student’s consumer rights guide — Competition & Markets Authority (CMA)
Providers’ rights to change courses — Which Report? Over 50% failed or bad
Students awarded £400,000 compensation after complaints — Hannah Richardson, BBC Education
One third uni students wish they had chosen a different course — Richard Garner, Independent
Four in 10 students say university not good value — BBC News
Student support grants ‘could be cut’ — BBC Newsnight

Universities found to offer ‘unlawful’ terms to students — Keumars Afifi-Sabet, Independent
Students facing ‘unlawful’ small print — Jack Grove, Times Higher Education
Students doubt fees value for money — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
CMA publishers report on regulation of higher education — Competition & Markets Authority
The “Which? Investigation” — Higher education: a review of providers’ rights to change courses

Sale of Goods and Services Act 1982. — Which? Consumer Rights
Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 — Office of Fair Trading Guidance
Expressed and Implied contract terms — Terms explained, tutor2u
The Act of Limitation 1980 — Remedy up to 6 years after the event
Higher Education report — Competition & Market Authority
Pre Action Protocol conduct — Ministry of Justice
Pre Action Protocol — Disputes legislation
Make a court claim for money — Small Claims Court

 
17. Student loans

My student loan was mis-sold, says graduate — Judith Burns, BBC Education
Lawyers to challenge student loan changes — The Guardian
Osborne faces legal action after he freezes level of loan repayment — Ben Quinn, The Guardian
Once I’ve got a student loan, can the terms be changed? — Money Saving Expert
Student loans system is collapsing, MPs warn — Simon Read, Independent
Student loan debt considered when applying for a mortgage — This is Money
Graduates deserve truth about what goes on credit files — Michael Smith, Money Saving Expert
Value for money from the student perspective November 2014 — Which? report
Student Loans Myth busting Fees, loans and grants facts — Money Saving Expert
Student loans: how much do they cost? — Full Fact
Tuition fees are a consumerist fallacy. Our students deserve better — Stefan Collini, The Guardian

Let universities underwrite student loans says David Willetts, MP — Ben Quinn, The Guardian
Universities push for higher fees — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Student tuition fees could rise again, warns David Willetts MP — Richard Garner, Independent
Tuition fees could rise past £9,000 under new Government plans — Andrew Grice, Independent
Universities call on UK Government to push tuition fees up — Aftab Ali, Independent
Graduates may face tougher loan terms — Hannah Richardson, BBC Education
Student loan repayment regime to get tougher — Richard Garner, Independent
Did £9,000 fees cut applications? — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Graduate debt tops £30,000: first students who paid higher fees — Daily Mail
2015 graduates desperately seek jobs to recoup £30,000 loans — Richard Garner, Independent
University costs 'second-biggest after mortgage, parents forced to help — Aftab Ali, Independent

Section 22 — Teaching & Higher Education Act 1998
Section 23 section 4 — Teaching & Higher Education Act 1998
Student statistics 2014/15 — Student Loan Company
Guide to terms and conditions 2014/15 — Student finances 2014/15
Estimating the public cost of student loans — IFS R94
Graduate earnings 2001 to 2011 — Office of National Statistics

Are English graduates facing double US counterparts debt? — James Connington, The Telegraph
Higher debts may deter poor students from university — Hannah Richardson, BBC Education
Parents lose their car paying price of university — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Student fees are an invitation for graduates to emigrate — John Marriott, The Guardian
Rising numbers of over 50s taking out student loans — Paton & Cooke, Telegraph
Students ‘turning to payday lenders’ — Sean Coughlan, BBC Education
Women seeking rich older men to pay off loans — Emma Kirby, BBC News
Students turn to sex work to make ends meet at university — Guardian
Student statistics 2014 — Higher Education Statistics Agency

Universities will be allowed to raise fees beyond £9,000 — Richard Garner, Independent
Ireland's 'crippling rent crisis' forces students to sleep rough — Independent
George Osborne freezes the threshold for student loan repayment — Nigel Morris, Independent
Poorest graduates 'will owe £53,000' after grants cut — Abigail Simmons, BBC Education
Tuition fees and grant cuts are not insurmountable problems — James Ashton, Independent

 
18. Student loans Sell off

Student loan sell-off - should you be worried? — Money Saving Expert
‘Cash Today’ Definitive article on the student loans sell off — Andrew McGettigan
Debt time-bomb for taxpayers — Jeff Prestridge, Mail on Sunday
UK govt has sold your student loans to debt collectors – corruption plain and simple — Scriptonite
10 reasons why privatisation of student loans is really bad thing — R Collington, Independent

Sale of £12billion student loans to debt management companies — Andrew McGettigan
Aging student loans sold to debt firms — David Willetts MP BBC
Sell the student loan book — and let the academy buy — David Willetts MP FT
RSA Lecture — The Cost of Higher Education — John Denham MP

New Zealand Government increased repayments in 2012 from 10% to 12% — NZ student union
The Office of Minnesota Attorney General US student loans system
The Office of Minnesota Attorney General takes legal action against student loan firms in US

 
19. 2015 Manifestos

Conservatives
Labour
Scottish National Party
Liberal Democrats
UKIP
Green Party

 
20. BBC Radio 4 interviews

Sir Ken Robinson — The Educator 1/8
Sugata Mitra — The Educator 6/8
Khan Academy — The Educator 8/8
Character Lesson — The Educator 1/5
What Finland did next — The Educator 2/5
Turning schools around — The Educator 3/5

The Early years   — School of Thought, David Willetts MP
A levels              — School of Thought, David Willetts MP
Vocation training — School of Thought, David Willetts MP
University           — School of Thought, David Willetts MP
Late learners      — School of Thought, David Willetts MP

“Digital Human” — Work — Aleks Krotoski, BBC Radio Four
What is it like not to smell? The neglected sense. — Kathy Clugston, BBC Radio Four
Acoustics, controlling sound & musical road —Professor Trevor Cox, Life Scientific, BBC Radio Four
 
Intellegence is 50% genetic — Professor Plomin, Life Scientific
TES video interview on genetics in education — Dr Kat Arney, YouTube
 
Internet manners, Behaving Ourselves, — David Mitchell on Manners with Sherry Turkle,
 
Sick of School — File on Four
The Triumph of Technology, — 2005 Reith Lectures
“You and Yours” — Student/university contracts mis–sold

Pupils should use Google in exams. — Mark Dawe, The chief executive of exam board OCR.
How is the child intelligent? — Radio Four Midweek @28.30 mins
History of Computing — Start of computing in schools in the 80’s.

“You and Yours” — Payday loans 31 mins
Crisis in the Curry kitchen — Immigration or difficulty of training new UK chefs

The legacy of Magna Carta by Melvin Bragg 06 Jan 2015 — BBC Radio Four
Magna Carta: The Great Charter of Liberties of King John, 1215 — BBC Radio Four

 
21. Psychology Today blogs by Professor Peter Gray

Does Video game addition occur, if so, why
Seven Sins of forced education
Lessons from Sudbury Valley
I. Ways of teaching that we share other animals
II. What can we learn from hunter-gatherers?
III. When is teaching an act of aggression?
Five myths about young people and social media.
Video game addiction, does it occur, if so why?
 
The case for teaching less maths in school
Do Humans have a basic capacity to understand fractions?
Early childhood education: Is earlier really better?
Early education
Why we should stop segregating children by age: Part 1
Rousseau’s Errors: They persist today in educational theory

 
22. Other

Let’s Help Academia Destroy Itself — Kurt Schlichter 04 Mar 2013
The death of the academic book and the path to Open Access — Roxanne Missingham Oct 2013
Death of the intellectual — Terry Eagleton Oct 2008
Why I am not a Professor — Dr Mark Tarver 2007
Education and production of new ideas — Paul Hirst, The Architectural Association 1995

School workforce in England Nov 2013 — Department of Education
School capacity: academic year 2014 — Department of Education

Colour changing card trick. How good is your perception?
Can you recite this poem without stopping? English pronunciation test

Colour Blind man hears colours using a camera and implanted sensor chip in his skull.