What are the different paths available after GCSEs and A levels? Are they accessible to all, or are there certain requirements to be met?

Children have no control over the illnesses, disabilities and other problems they may have. In such cases, forest schools can give them a sense of purpose and self-fulfilment.

State schools also need to be improved so that their pupils feel qualified and capable enough to send off an Oxbridge application. It’s certainly not up to private schools to limit their applications when many state students don’t apply anyway!

Many of the poets of the sixteenth century looked to Marlowe for inspiration.

In most prisons, tutors predominantly aim to structure their classes in a way that favours group work.

Should ground-breaking literature be so easily edited and redefined at the whim of an author, or left alone once it hits shelves?

Do ruling politicians welcome the destruction of planet Earth, or is it more likely that their privileged education has still somehow failed them where global warming and climate change are concerned?

Vocational learning can sit right alongside the GCSE, but the qualification should remain for the benefit of those who need to learn basic skills, as well as those who want to branch out into higher academia. Put simply, there’s room for everything.

Last December, it was discovered that Oxbridge purposely over-recruited from eight of the top schools in the UK.

School libraries help make independent learning outside of an ordered curriculum possible. It is in places like the school library that children begin to understand learning as a constant process that continues after school’s end.