Time to scrap GCSEs?

7:00pm, Friday 9 October

After toppling statues: is it time to rewrite the curriculum?

7:00pm, Monday 6 July

Back to school: safety versus public service?

7:00pm, Tuesday 26 May

Is it time to reopen our schools?

7:00pm, Tuesday 5 May

Pedagogy and the corona classroom

7:00pm, Wednesday 15 April

Should school children be forced to have the MMR vaccine?

7:00pm, Tuesday 11 February

In conversation: Martin Robinson on ‘Curriculum: Athena versus The Machine’

7:00pm, Thursday 5 December 2019

The Education Culture Wars: what should be the role of schools today?

7:00pm, Monday 18 November 2019

Is teaching my life or just a job?

7:00pm, Monday 16 September 2019

Pupil protests: is something wrong with climate change teaching?

7:00pm, Wednesday 26 June 2019

Should we be worried about sex and relationships education?

7:00pm, Monday 25 March 2019

Genetics, education and intelligence

7:00pm, Tuesday 12 February 2019

Excluded from school - next stop jail?

7:30pm, Monday 12 November 2018

Education Forum at the Battle of Ideas 2018

10:00am, Sunday 14 October 2018

AoI Education Forum at ResearchED 2018

9:00am, Saturday 8 September 2018

Muscular liberalism: hijabs and schools

7:00pm, Monday 11 June 2018

Schools through the ages: an illustrated history

11:00am, Saturday 2 June 2018

Creativity and schools: what is creativity anyway?

7:00pm, Monday 21 May 2018

The rise of the scripted teacher: liberation or disaster?

7:00pm, Monday 23 April 2018

What is a knowledge-led school anyway?

7:00pm, Monday 5 March 2018

What are the rights and wrongs of school dress codes?

7:00pm, Thursday 25 January 2018

Who has made the most important impact on education?

7:00pm, Monday 11 December 2017

Brexit hate crime in schools: shocking truth or over-hyped?

7:00pm, Monday 13 November 2017

Education Forum at the Battle of Ideas 2017

10:00am, Sunday 29 October 2017

Never mind growth mindset - should kids be allowed to fail?

7:00pm, Monday 18 September 2017

Education Forum at ResearchED 2017

9:00am, Saturday 9 September 2017

The History and Meaning of Liberal Education

2:00pm, Saturday 10 June 2017

Nothing to lose? Putting teacher judgement to the test

7:00pm, Monday 8 May 2017

Teacher recruitment crisis: why do great teachers quit?

7:00pm, Monday 20 March 2017

Boy trouble: is gender important in education?

7:00pm, Monday 30 January 2017

‘No excuses’ discipline: does ‘sparing the rod’ spoil the classroom?

7:00pm, Monday 21 November 2016

Education Forum debates at researchED National Conference

10:00am, Saturday 10 September 2016

Are textbooks the answer? And if so, what is the question?

7:00pm, Monday 11 July 2016

The Unsafe Space debates

10:00am, Friday 24 June 2016

The Idea and Impact of ED Hirsch’s ‘Cultural Literacy’

2:00pm, Sunday 19 June 2016

Do teachers need a College of Teaching?

7:00pm, Monday 16 May 2016

What is Religious Studies for in an increasingly secular age?

7:00pm, Monday 18 April 2016

What is education for?

7:15pm, Tuesday 8 March 2016

The Modern Trivium: triumph of tradition or trivial gimmick?

7:00pm, Monday 9 November 2015

How should educators respond to the election?

7:00pm, Thursday 16 April 2015

How useful is evidence in education?

7:00pm, Monday 9 February 2015

Critical reflections on Dewey’s Democracy and Education

7:00pm, Monday 16 June 2014

Where now for Ofsted?

7:00pm, Monday 19 May 2014

Should teachers embrace performativity?

7:00pm, Monday 28 April 2014

Is knowledge under attack?

7:00pm, Monday 18 November 2013

What makes a good teacher today?

7:00pm, Monday 16 September 2013

Education or Emile?

7:00pm, Monday 17 June 2013

Knowledge versus emotion in education: a false dichotomy?

7:00pm, Monday 20 May 2013

Why so many interventions in education?

7:00pm, Monday 22 April 2013

The End of EBacc - a victory for the arts?

7:00pm, Monday 18 March 2013

Is it mentor be? - exploring education’s role model fixation

7:00pm, Monday 11 February 2013

What makes a good school?

7:00pm, Monday 17 September 2012

The truths about neuroscience

7:00pm, Monday 14 May 2012

Who really runs the classroom today?

7:00pm, Monday 23 April 2012

Tony Sewell ‘On Education’

7:00pm, Monday 12 March 2012

A framework for the national curriculum

7:00pm, Monday 6 February 2012

A framework for the national curriculum - the Education Forum response

7:00pm, Monday 16 January 2012

Why a Science Free School?

7:00pm, Monday 14 November 2011

What is education for in the 21st century?

7:00pm, Monday 19 September 2011

Does every child need a classical education?

7:00pm, Monday 18 July 2011

Do we need a ‘nappy curriculum’ for our youngest learners?

7:00pm, Monday 13 June 2011

Is teacher training a turning point?

7:00pm, Monday 16 May 2011

Can the Wolf Report save vocational education?

7:00pm, Monday 11 April 2011

The English Baccalaureate: one step forward, two steps back?

7:00pm, Monday 21 March 2011

Citizenship is dead. Long live history?

7:00pm, Monday 14 February 2011

All Quiet on the Phonics Front?

7:00pm, Monday 17 January 2011

Is education educating yet?

7:00pm, Monday 13 December 2010

Can we still make the case for subjects?

7:00pm, Monday 15 November 2010

Free schools: do parents or teachers know best?

7:00pm, Monday 4 October 2010

Who needs teacher training?

7:00pm, Monday 20 September 2010

‘Please sir, can we have some more schools’

7:00pm, Monday 21 June 2010

We Must Do Better!

7:00pm, Monday 19 April 2010

Chavs into haves - should private schools be banned?

7:00pm, Monday 22 February 2010

Education Election Debate

7:00pm, Monday 25 January 2010

Stephen Ball in conversation with Dennis Hayes

7:00pm, Monday 14 December 2009

Should we defend home schooling?

7:00pm, Tuesday 24 November 2009

The Myth of Racist Kids

7:00pm, Monday 21 September 2009

Why a ‘Physics Factory’?

7:00pm, Monday 22 June 2009

Pseudo-Science and Education

7:00pm, Thursday 18 June 2009

The Confidence to Teach

7:00pm, Monday 18 May 2009

Book Launch of Reclaiming Childhood

7:00pm, Monday 20 April 2009

Are we over-protecting children?

7:00pm, Tuesday 24 March 2009

Teaching the subject of Music

7:00pm, Monday 23 March 2009

Teachers as Role Models

7:00pm, Monday 23 February 2009

Playing with education: After the Rose Report does education have any meaning?

7:00pm, Monday 26 January 2009

Teaching the Unteachable?

7:00pm, Monday 24 November 2008

Environmental Educators’ underhand tactics

7:00pm, Monday 20 October 2008

The Therapeutic Turn in Education: replies to our critics

7:00pm, Monday 22 September 2008

Stab Schools?

7:00pm, Monday 16 June 2008

Should we uphold the Ten Commandments of ‘pedagogy’?

7:00pm, Monday 19 May 2008

Cultural education

7:00pm, Monday 14 April 2008

The paradox of family learning

7:00pm, Monday 18 February 2008

Helping children to be happy: can the Children’s Plan succeed?

7:00pm, Monday 21 January 2008

Early-years education - held jointly with the IoI Parents Forum

7:00pm, Monday 19 November 2007

Subjects or Skills?

7:00pm, Monday 24 September 2007

What Training Do Teachers Need?

7:00pm, Monday 9 July 2007

School Leadership

7:00pm, Monday 14 May 2007

14-19 Education: The New Qualifications

7:00pm, Monday 26 March 2007

14-19 Education: ROSLA to 18 and Social Inclusion

7:00pm, Monday 26 February 2007

What is personalised Learning?

7:00pm, Monday 22 January 2007

Selection in State Schools

7:00pm, Monday 27 November 2006

The Nationalisation of Childhood

7:00pm, Wednesday 18 October 2006

Understanding Inclusion

7:00pm, Monday 25 September 2006

An ‘In Conversation’ Event

7:00pm, Monday 17 July 2006

Why bother to teach modern foreign languages?

7:00pm, Monday 19 June 2006

Raking over old bones: Darwinism on trial

7:00pm, Wednesday 10 May 2006

‘Professor Stephen Rowland in conversation with Dr Dennis Hayes

7:30pm, Monday 24 April 2006

Special Event:Global Ethics and Citizenship Education

7:00pm, Friday 21 April 2006

Reflections on the art of teaching

7:00pm, Monday 20 March 2006

Standing up to the bullying panic

7:00pm, Monday 20 February 2006

The Phonics Controversy

7:00pm, Monday 23 January 2006

Professor Richard Pring in conversation with Dr. Shirley Lawes

7:00pm, Monday 12 December 2005

Youth, Apathy and Activity

7:30pm, Monday 14 November 2005

Examinations do you good

7:00pm, Monday 19 September 2005

Multiculturalism and the promotion of faith schools – steps backwards in education?

7:00pm, Monday 4 July 2005

Why the fuss about ‘vocationalism’?

7:00pm, Monday 6 June 2005

Sick of school dinners?

7:00pm, Monday 9 May 2005

Literacies or Literacy?

7:00pm, Monday 4 April 2005

Too Scared to Teach?

7:00pm, Monday 14 March 2005

What is a subject?

7:00pm, Monday 7 February 2005

Learning Styles: snake oil, sacred cow or holy grail?

7:00pm, Monday 17 January 2005