Battle for the classroom: education or indoctrination?
Saturday 25 November 2023
SPEAKERS: Penny Lewis, Agnes Snow, Ruth Wareham, Clive Wright
Schools: the great expulsion debate
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dave Clements, Michael Merrick, Stella O’Malley, Dr Tony Sewell CBE
Ofsted: cruel judgement or making schools accountable?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Jason Ashley, Louise Burton, Dr Sean Lang, Martin Robinson
Should schools teach social justice?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dr Debbie Hayton, Eric Kaufmann, Michael Merrick, Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
Bookshop Barnie with Peter Hitchens: A Revolution Betrayed
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Peter Hitchens
Revitalising free speech on campus: Living Freedom and Speak Easy
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Jack Barwell, Felice Basbøll, Emma Cabezaolias, Ella Nixon
ChatGPT: cheating or a new tool for learning?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dr Catherine Breslin, Donald Clark, Omar Mohamed, Gareth Sturdy, Poppy Wood
Marking time: how should lecturers judge students?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Matilda Martin, Dr Vanessa Pupavac, David Swift
Academics building academic freedom from the ground up
Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dr Firat Cengiz, Dr Ruth Mieschbuehler, Professor Ian Pace
Free speech on campus: should hecklers be banned?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dennis Hayes, Holly Lawford-Smith, James Orr, Alice Sullivan, James Tooley
Letters on Liberty: in defence of teaching history
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Tarjinder Gill, Nicolas Kinloch, Dr Robert Pyrah, Kevin Rooney
Infantilisation: the collapse of adult authority?
Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Jessica Butcher MBE, Professor Frank Furedi, Jacob Phillips, Barry Smith, Don Watkins
From HGV drivers to bricklayers: how do we solve the skills crisis?
Sunday 10 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Tom Bewick, Victoria Hewson, Kelvin Hopkins, Rick Moore, Linda Murdoch
What does the Sewell Report mean for education?
Saturday 31 July 2021
SPEAKERS: Kunle Olulode, Zara Qureshi, Dr Tony Sewell CBE, James Tooley, Professor Patrick Vernon OBE
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