Check out this piece for the Guardian’s comment page tomorrow – but published already – on the move among today’s students towards apprenticeships. Continue Reading
Category Archives: Writings
Forming ideas
Below, an interview by Samantha Laurie in November’s RIchmond magazine. Please click Melissa layout to read. Continue Reading
In a very good cause…….
I will be hosting a fundraising evening on December 1st in aid of the Maya Centre, which provides therapy to low income women. The evening will feature some of our finest writers – Jill Dawson, Margaret Drabble, Helen Simpson and Sarah Waters – reading from their short story collections. Tickets selling fast. Please come along. Continue Reading
Richmond blues
Somehow, I think my appearance at the Richmond Literary Festival on November 25th is going to be my trickiest talk yet! A couple of weeks ago I did a long interview with Richmond magazine’s Samantha Laurie which is published this month here. The interview itself, and various follow up e-mail discussions, waas a veritable clash… Continue Reading
Toby Young helpfully clarifies ‘new school’ aims….
Free school founder Toby Young comes clean on real purpose of charter school experiment. Continue Reading
School Wars: round up of the reaction so far…………
Round up of reaction to School War by Melissa Benn Continue Reading
Interview on the New Schools Revolution…
…with an interesting website called New Left Direction. See what you think – a slightly different kind of interview. Continue Reading
Guess who dropped by?
Ed Miliband drops in to Melissa Benn’s signing for School Wars at Labour Party Conference 2011 Continue Reading
School Wars
What I have learned from the debate around my book so far…… Continue Reading
It’s hot out there…………
Very good Francis Beckett piece on debate at the RSA yesterday. Continue Reading
Latest writing
THE CRISIS OF THE MERITOCRACY
The crisis of the meritocracy: Britain’s transition to mass education since the Second World War PETER MANDLER, 2020 Oxford: Oxford University Press 361pp, hardback, £25, ISBN 9780198840145 Cambridge historian Peter Mandler has a fundamentally optimistic story to tell about the growth of universal education in Britain over the last seventy years and one can sense… Continue reading…
Latest news & events
A Cold War Tragedy
Melissa will be in conversation with Anne Sebba about her new book, ‘Ethel Rosenberg – A Cold War Tragedy.’ Weds 15th September 2021, 5-6pm, in the Robert Graves Tent at the Wimbledon Book Festival. More information here. Continue reading…
