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The Times: Toby Lee, the 16-year-old being called a guitar legend

The Times: Toby Lee, the 16-year-old being called a guitar legend

It’s not easy being a teenager in 2021. It could even give you the blues. What it rarely does, however, is make you want to play the blues, the musical style that emerged from black communities in the American south at the turn of the 20th century and went on to form the foundation of 1960s and 1970s rock. Toby Lee, a 16-year-old from Oxfordshire who has been celebrated by such greats as Buddy Guy and Joe Bonamassa as the best blues guitarist of his generation, is a rare exception.

“I’m going to be honest: I’m quite a nerd,” Toby says, actually looking quite stylish in a flat cap and patterned shirt as he speaks from his parents’ living room in Oxfordshire, a custom-built Gibson335 electric guitar leaning on the wall behind him. “If I’m not playing guitar, I’m taking a guitar or a pedal apart to figure out how it works. I have a mechanical mind and I’m into things my friends aren’t into, but I quite like that. It’s something different to talk about.”

Arts, Interview, Media Article, MusicSarah NorrisMarch 23, 2021Lando EducationLando Education, Lando, music, The Times, media artcile, teenager, Toby Lee, guitar legend Comment

The Times: Dropout rate at Hong Kong schools soars as families flee territory

The Times: Dropout rate at Hong Kong schools soars as families flee territory

China, Education, Family, Hong Kong, Media ArticleSarah NorrisFebruary 25, 2021Lando EducationLando Education, Lando, The Times, media article, Hong Kong, secondary schools, families, schools, fleeing, Diocesan Girls’ School, Ying Wa CollegeComment

The Times: Sacked Eton master Will Knowland faces lifetime ban from schools

The Times: Sacked Eton master Will Knowland faces lifetime ban from schools

The teacher dismissed from Eton over an anti-feminist video could be banned from teaching permanently after the school referred him to the watchdog.

The Times: Manners makyth a girl too, says Winchester College head

The Times: Manners makyth a girl too, says Winchester College head

Since its beginnings in 1382 Winchester College has been guided by the motto “Manners Makyth Man”. But more than 600 years after it was founded by William of Wykeham to teach 70 “poor and needy scholars”, Britain’s oldest public school will open its doors to sixth-form girls.

The Times: ‘Generation Covid’ tag risks blighting resilient children

The Times: ‘Generation Covid’ tag risks blighting resilient children

A leading head teacher has said that labelling children the Covid generation is “catastrophising” and blighting them.

The Times: Tencent: Tech giant backed by Beijing funded Cambridge research

The Times: Tencent: Tech giant backed by Beijing funded Cambridge research

Cambridge University received a “generous gift” from a Chinese software company with links to the communist regime to fund an engineering fellowship, The Times has learnt.

The Times: Royal Springboard scheme gives private school places to pupils in care

The Times: Royal Springboard scheme gives private school places to pupils in care

Children from troubled backgrounds will win places at prestigious private schools as part of a government-backed scheme aimed at transforming their life chances.

About £200,000 of public money is being given to a charity that helps match vulnerable children and those in care with top independent schools.

The Times: INTERVIEW - Meet Milo Beckman, the whizz-kid making maths supercool

The Times: INTERVIEW - Meet Milo Beckman, the whizz-kid making maths supercool

Milo Beckman was studying advanced algebra when he was 8. By 15, he was a Harvard prodigy. Now aged just 25, he’s written a brilliant book that takes everything we know (and fear) about maths out of the equation – starting with numbers.

The Times: Nicola Benedetti frustrated by music education

The Times: Nicola Benedetti frustrated by music education

Both my husband and I were asked to leave recorder club at our primary schools. I was even asked to mime in a concert. My problem - I didn’t practice. Not sure if that’s because I always forgot or because my mother didn’t remind me. She wasn’t big on helping me with anything to do with school. My husband on the other hand, is musical and spent 20 years as a Sound Engineer and Producer, before switching careers.

Our daughter is very musical, although she’s also not big on practicing. She was very lucky and managed to be offered a 3 year plac, on the Royal Academy of Music’s First String Experience course. She made it to grade 5 violin (then gave up to work more on her ballet), grade 4 piano, grade 3 recorder and is now just beginning grade 5 flute (her only weekly lesson instrument now). She’s spent lockdown teaching herself to play her guitar (Rolling Stones, A Star is Born soundtrack and random Siri inspired tracks), learning how to use GarageBand and back to playing her piano.

The Times: University students ditch arts degrees and opt for medicine

The Times: University students ditch arts degrees and opt for medicine

New medical schools have opened, allowing 12,000 students to start medical degrees last autumn

The arts degree is in steady decline as medicine, computing and engineering soar in popularity, university entry figures show today.

The Times: Cheated in class? No mortgage for you, Chinese government warns

The Times: Cheated in class? No mortgage for you, Chinese government warns

The Chinese government is threatening to withdraw a postgraduate’s ability to secure a mortgage if they are found to have plagiarised someone else’s work.

In a joint statement, the ministries of education and finance and the National Development and Reform Commission announced they would include academic dishonesty as part of the country’s social credit scheme.

Business, Education, Exam Results, Higher EducationSarah NorrisSeptember 24, 2020Lando EducationChina, Cheated in class, Chinese governmen, Lando, Lando Education, The Times, media article, mortgage, antisocial behaviour, degree dissertations, punishmentComment

The Times: British universities charter jets to fly in Chinese students

The Times: British universities charter jets to fly in Chinese students

A flight carrying hundreds of students to Belfast from Beijing has become the first of several expected to be chartered by British universities to bring a record number of Chinese people into the country to study.

More than 24,000 Chinese students sought admission to British universities this year, up by 23 per cent, of which 8,570 were accepted, a rise of 14 per cent.

The Times: School funding ‘unfair to poor white pupils’

The Times: School funding ‘unfair to poor white pupils’

Poor white children do significantly worse at school in part because education funding is targeted at larger cities with more ethnically diverse populations, academics have argued.

They accused the Department for Education of making it difficult for experts to analyse underachievement by white pupils because this “did not align” with the government’s focus.

The Times: Pupils aren’t up to sitting exams next year, say teachers

The Times: Pupils aren’t up to sitting exams next year, say teachers

A survey found that over 50 per cent of teachers with pupils due to take exams next summer felt they were not on track to get the results they should achieve.

Questions surround next year’s GCSE and A-level exams after ministers, unions and private schools raised doubts that they would run as normal.

The Times: Coronavirus in Scotland: Parents want end to confusion over next year’s exams

The Times: Coronavirus in Scotland: Parents want end to confusion over next year’s exams

Parents are demanding an “unequivocal statement” from John Swinney about the fate of next year’s school exams amid claims that they may be cancelled again due to Covid-19.

Education, Exam Results, Family, Lockdown, Media Article, Pandemic, ScotlandSarah NorrisSeptember 21, 2020Lando EducationScotland, S3, S4, pupils, exams, Covid19, Pandemic, Lando, Lando Education, government, cancelled, virus, The Times, course assessments, scrappedComment

The Times: Ruth Bader Ginsburg obituary

The Times: Ruth Bader Ginsburg obituary

Whenever Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell ill, liberal America held its breath. To many it was Bader Ginsburg, the 107th justice of the Supreme Court and something of a judicial celebrity, who was the voice of reason in a nation divided on ideological grounds, with her cautious words and constant attempts to build a consensus no matter who was involved.

The Times: 50 great films by women Sex, war, betrayal, crime, romance, bromance: no topic has been off limits for female directors

The Times: 50 great films by women Sex, war, betrayal, crime, romance, bromance: no topic has been off limits for female directors

Having a screenwriter husband, does mean we watch a lot of films. He’s currently looking for a female director for one of his Hollywood film scripts. So in praise of all films by women…

The Times: I’m a graduate. There are no jobs since Covid for me

The Times: I’m a graduate. There are no jobs since Covid for me

I never thought I’d hear myself say those words: I want to receive a rejection email. I want to be told that on this occasion I have been unsuccessful; that after careful consideration we will not be continuing your application. Because at least then I know.

With unemployment rates continuing to rise, it is young people who are being hit hardest by the coronavirus job crisis. Jobs are like gold dust, the applicant/position ratio is ever-growing, and many companies are failing to inform applicants of their unsuccess. This leaves you deflated, tired and obsessively checking your junk mail.

A 23-year-old, class of 2019 graduate, I moved to London in February, excited by the prospect of starting a career and creating a new home. I started off with high hopes, and a cushion of savings to get me through the initial couple of months.

Education, Higher Education, Media Article, PandemicSarah NorrisSeptember 17, 2020Lando Educationgraduate, The Times, media article, Lando, Lando Education, no jobs, pandemic, Covid19, unemployment rates, London, Flora Godfrey HenryComment

The Times: Postgrad degrees are not the path to a bigger salary

The Times: Postgrad degrees are not the path to a bigger salary

Taking a postgraduate qualification may earn extra letters after your name, but it won’t bring you more money in the long run, research suggests.

Those paying to continue their studies in some subjects can end up with lower salaries as a result, suggesting that extra years of study should be done for love of learning, not lucre.

The Times: Nose job ads? Not in front of the children

The Times: Nose job ads? Not in front of the children

The ban aims to protect young people’s mental health and body image.

Cosmetic surgery clinics will be banned from promoting breast enlargement, nose jobs and liposuction to children, under plans announced by the advertising watchdog today.

The rules will stop adverts for cosmetic surgery during or around TV programmes and online content, either aimed at under-18s or likely to appeal to young audiences. It will mean that viewers of Love Island, the ITV reality show, will no longer see adverts for breast enlargement procedures.