It sounds like another typical anecdote from Britain's lazy schooling culture, the kind of thing that would feature in a re-issue of Melanie Phillips' All Must Have Prizes: a southwest London school has curbed the amount of homework it doles out to students, because the poor, hard-of-thinking kiddiewinks might be "put off learning". Oh, the shame! Kingston-based Tiffin boy's school, where this Londonista actually spent an unhappy five years, says that pupils should have......

Jury service can be a drag, we imagine (Londonist's youthfulness precluding it from being summoned to rule over our fellow citizens). How to make the time go quickly? You could do like Homer Simpson did and wear a pair of oversized comedy glasses to surreptitiously snooze behind. Or you could smuggle in some class Cs and attempt to drive down Doobie Lane while deciding the verdict. A juror from Surbiton tried just that last......

Naughty naughty, Kingston University: an audiotape recording of faculty members at the southwest London institution telling students to lie in their responses to a quality of teaching survey has emerged. The National Student Survey is widely seen as the best measure of student satisfaction, and the results affect university league tables. Looking for a quick-fix to their lowly position, Kingston staffers were recorded telling students that they needed to embellish their responses as, otherwise,......

173 patient medical documents this time. The cache of personal information was discovered in a bag near Kingston Hospital. The files contain data on cancer and HIV patients plus ‘information on those attending conception and addiction clinics, as well as sexual disease and hepatitis test results’. Fortunately, the records are anonymised. But the hospital, ironically an NHS Trust, has no idea how the files escaped. Patients, or customers as they’re probably known these days,......