Category: Uncommon Ground

British Schools Need More Than ‘Little Extras’, Philip Hammond

November 16, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
By Katie Barker The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced a £400 million extra funding for schools to purchase those ‘little extras’. But, is this what schools need? The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s recent budget announcement of £400 million of extra funding for schools was remarkable in the way in which it united, in anger, […] Read more

We Need to Change How we Think About Refugees and Migration

November 7, 2018 | by | 1 Comments
Scott Jacobsen speaks to Gissou Nia about migrants, refugees, the international community, climate change, water scarcity, and more. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Migrant and refugee issues are continually arising along with concerns from the international community relating to these issues. Increasingly, they reveal some problems as well. What are the problems being faced at present by […] Read more

Why Teaching Canonical Texts Still Matters

November 7, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
Though the literary canon has fallen out of favour with many teachers, introducing it to students is still a valuable and worthwhile exercise. In one of the first tutorials for my Secondary English class at university, back when I was beginning a Master of Teaching degree a year and a half ago, the topic of […] Read more

The Bad Medicine of Transgenderism – Repeating Errors of the Past

November 1, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
In 1536 a 22-year-old medical student stole a body from the gallows.  It was illegal, but his scientific curiosity prevailed.  Andreas Vesalius would go on to change understanding of anatomy with his seminal work, De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body).  This was not what he set out to do, however.  […] Read more