China’s First International Students
Realising the world was changing around them, the Qing government began sending students abroad.
Education
Future Leaders or Social Outcasts?
The obsession with gifted children is an ancient one, but it took on new life in the 20th century.
Doctoring the Ladies
Although not allowed to study at university, women in 18th-century England still found ways to join – and challenge – the scholarly world.
The Medieval University Monopoly
New universities sprang up across medieval Europe at a rapid rate, yet at the start of the 19th century, England had only two: Oxford and Cambridge. For centuries, England’s two oldest institutions enjoyed a strict duopoly on higher learning, enforced by law. Why were they allowed to?
The History of Dyslexia
‘Word blindness’ was a recognised condition more than a century ago. But it was not until the 1970s that it began to be accepted by the medical establishment.
Can MOOCs offer anything new?
Massive Open Online Courses enable educators to connect with a learners on a huge scale.
Somerville College and the Great War
The First World War transformed women-only Somerville College. It became a hospital for convalescing soldiers, housed poets and writers and changed forever the fortunes of female students, writes Frank Prochaska.
Inside the Anglo-Saxon Classroom
Schoolboys forget their books, lose their pens and laugh at dirty jokes. This was true even in the rigorous atmosphere of the Anglo-Saxon classroom.
The Poor Child’s Friend
One of the 19th-century pioneers of education for the working class is emerging from neglect.
Deafness, 'Visible Speech' and Alexander Graham Bell
Bell is most known for the invention of the first patented telephone, but his work on deafness and speech sounds should not be forgotten.