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Gaudeamus Igitur! Irish curricular changes

The long-awaited changes to Ireland’s national curriculum and assessment of Ancient Greek and Latin have now been finalised.

Blog post by Aryn Penn, 28/4/2025.

A guiding principle of these curricular changes was to try and capture the enriching, interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional classroom experience…

Classicists take ‘ancient philosophical wisdom’ into English jails

Inmates in several prisons given chance to study ethics and rhetoric ‘to inform contemporary life’ and skills

A classical education, once the preserve of Eton, Oxbridge and the likes of Boris Johnson, is being made available to inmates serving time in…

‘They see it is living’: Durham professor’s mission to get more pupils into classics

Arlene Holmes-Henderson wants all children in UK to have equal access to classical education.

“My business school colleagues tell me that it’s not called levelling up any more, it’s rebalancing,” says Arlene Holmes-Henderson, a Durham University professor. “I think it’s just doing the right…