Education

Jul 4, 20211 min

PRIDDY Toolkit: New Intervention for Young Drinkers

An interesting new (and free) tool kit to support young people who are drinking has just been realised by Humankind. Based on the AUDIT,...

Oct 3, 20193 min

Failure Works

Scientists at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management have established a causal relationship between failure and future...

Jan 9, 20192 min

Social Mobility: Higher Education Not the Answer

I have suggested for sometime that the primary goal of getting as many young people as possible into higher education would not solve...

Oct 19, 20183 min

University Attendance Predicted by Genes

Research from King's College London has shown for the first time that genetics plays a significant role in whether young adults choose to...

Oct 8, 20182 min

Social Constructionism Exposed as Drivel-Yet Again

Whenever someone starts to quote post-modernism / social construction theory to me, I point them in the direction of Alan Sokal. In the...

Oct 5, 20181 min

Does University Education Pay Off?

Young people are often expected to attend university to improve their future economic status. In the UK, only 13 per cent of jobs...

Phil Harris