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5 days ago | 
observer.co.uk | Ellen Peirson-Hagger
The American writer on Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘feminist Mad Men’, how Lacan helps with boyfriend trouble, and the Annie Ernaux book everyone should read Lauren Elkin, 46, grew up in Long Island, New York, and lived in Paris for more than 20 years before moving to south-east London, where she is now based.
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1 week ago | 
tes.com | Ellen Peirson-Hagger
The term “oracy” - effective speaking, listening and oral communication - has been a buzzword in education in recent years, with many arguing that it should have a more prominent role in schools. In 2023 Sir Keir Starmer, when he was leader of the opposition, pledged that the Labour Party would “weave oracy through a new national curriculum”.
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2 weeks ago | 
ft.com | Ellen Peirson-Hagger
The setting of Scottish poet Michael Pedersen’s debut novel is the isle of Muckle Flugga, until 1995 the most northerly inhabited island...
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2 weeks ago | 
tes.com | Ellen Peirson-Hagger
“The bottom line is that accidents are failings,” said Stuart McGregor, director of operations at the National Alliance of School Premises Managers, addressing a crowd of leaders at the Schools and Academies Show in London. “Something’s gone wrong.”McGregor has worked in this area for over 20 years, investigating hundreds of school incidents. As a word of warning, he recalled a number of accidents in schools that ended in fatalities, affecting children, staff and even passers-by.
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3 weeks ago | 
tes.com | Ellen Peirson-Hagger
“It’s that time of year - it’s the waiting game,” says Jack Worth, education economist at the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER). Worth is referring to the upcoming announcement on teacher pay, as the elongated process for deciding the 2025-26 awards drags on.
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4 weeks ago | 
observer.co.uk | Ellen Peirson-Hagger
A New New MeHelen OyeyemiFaber, £16.99, pp256Helen Oyeyemi’s eighth novel takes place over the course of a week. Its protagonist is Kinga, a 40-year-old living in Prague. Exactly what else is true about Kinga depends on which day of the week it is – for she isn’t just one character. She splits herself into seven iterations, each of whom has her own job (matchmaker, window cleaner, professional lounge-around-er), habits and acquaintances.
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4 weeks ago | 
observer.co.uk | Ellen Peirson-Hagger
The American essayist on being a tortoise at the mayfly party, her love of nature and why she needs a librarian Rebecca Solnit, 63, is one of the world’s foremost writers on climate and feminism. Across more than 20 books – including Men Explain Things to Me (2014), and Orwell’s Roses (2021) – she has incisively and poetically explored activism, social change and the need for hope in troubled times.
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1 month ago | 
tes.com | Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Learning to talk and understand words feels like “an impossible hurdle” for around 2 million children in the UK. And that number is 35 per cent higher than three years ago, according to new research by the organisation Speech and Language UK. Part of this increase can be seen in the well-documented rise in the number of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with one-fifth of the school population now needing SEND support - a 31.2 per cent increase since 2016.
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1 month ago | 
tes.com | Ellen Peirson-Hagger
“They’re taking the classroom.”James Gibson, executive headteacher at Becton School - a hospital school based within Sheffield Children’s Hospital and part of Nexus Multi-Academy Trust - is preparing to lose yet more teaching space. Last year he lost the school gym in Becton’s child and adolescent mental health services (Camhs) unit setting - it’s now a family room. Now he’s losing a classroom on an oncology ward. He’s not alone.
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1 month ago | 
tes.com | Ellen Peirson-Hagger
“I get a lot of invitations to speak at schools and I say no to almost all of them, because I don’t have time to do retail, to do one school at a time.”That the American writer and academic Jonathan Haidt is in demand is no surprise: his agenda-setting polemic The Anxious Generation was already popular in the UK among those warning about the harms of social media and phones, but that popularity grew even further after the recent airing of the Netflix series Adolescence.
