For the last 30 years or so the rise of creative writing programmes in universities has been met with seemingly unending howls of derision from all quarters. Hanif Kureishi, novelist, screenwriter – ...

IN THE course of more than forty years of teaching I have often been asked, “When you teach creative writing, what do you teach?” Books dealing with technique have their function, no doubt, in a ...

When a student fails, it’s the teacher’s fault. When a child misbehaves – it’s the teacher’s fault. And when the economy fails, that too is considered to be the teacher’s fault. Is my latter statement ...

Of all the so-called 21st-century skills, perhaps none is revered in both the education and business worlds as much as creativity. In the past year alone, creativity topped lists of the most valued ...

The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching (COT) in collaboration with Chancellor Larive celebrated UC Santa Cruz’s innovative and dedicated teachers with a gathering at the Cowell Provost House in ...

A group of school students bend over notebooks as they sit on mats in a village square in Righer village to study numbers, spelling, and other subjects. In the open space, they can easily be seated at ...

I'm not someone who sends several emails a day to people saying there's this Internet video you should watch, so I mean it when I say there's this Internet video you should watch (embedded below). The ...

AS a nation, we are obsessed with chasing grades and distinctions at every level of schooling and, in fact, schools have built their reputation based on the board results they produce. A necessary ...