Harry Mount(ainous Cock)

Man makes horrifying discovery. Victorian schools facades are just that, facades. Behind the 19th century walls of these schools lurks a terrible secret, they are not really Victorian at all! They are 21st century!

Goodbye, Mr Microchips (or why computers should be banned from our schools)

Have you been inside a primary school recently? The old blackboards are gone, and so are the wooden desks with those little inkwells. No great loss, perhaps, but what has replaced them is frightening.  Those handsome, Victorian red-brick board schools, set up under the 1870 Education Act, might look pretty much unchanged on the outside. But on the inside they have become little offices. Whiteboards, hooked up to computers, are the main teaching tool in the classroom. Whole areas are given over to ranks of gleaming screens.

Tosser.