schools

London’s Institute of Education is to issue lesson plans based on – this is difficult to type – soap operas, adverts and Grange Hill. The packs will be distributed to 1000 schools and contain lesson ideas and DVDs – which just goes to show that …

Police are tonight reporting that 300 black African boys have gone missing from London schools and fear thousands more could disappear each year. The numbers were revealed after the 2001 murder inquiry into the African boy’s torso found in the Thames. That body was thought …

Think And Wonder, Wonder And Think… sounds like one of those schools’ television programmes you used to get in the Eighties doesn’t it? You can almost imagine an overly-enthusiastic man and woman wearing brightly-patterned jumpers, erecting a wobbly structure made of pipe cleaners which is …

It’s twenty five years or so since Frank Zappa complained about the (brain) Dead Girls of London and if you sit on a bus around the time that schools get out then you’d be forgiven for thinking that things hadn’t changed all that much; a …

Working in an office block overlooking the Thames and the City beyond – as this Londonist contributor is occasionally lucky enough to do – one occasionally sees some odd things. But this, spotted today at about 3pm, really takes the digestive biscuit. The launches were …

It’s one of those stories that, if the Daily Mail ever get wind of, we’ll never hear the end of it. A Greenwich-based theatre company are currently staging Shakespeare classics in their own “unique” way. That’s “unique” as in gay. The Melmoth Theatre Company’s adaptation …

Time was when a visit by royalty to the official opening of a school would be accompanied by rows of white-shirted kids, smiling keenly and waving their union flags. Not any more. The Queen’s school-opening in Lambeth last week was met by placard-waving protesters and …