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EEF to test impact of school theatre trips under £2.5m trial

January 8, 2017 at 08:03AM The educational impact of taking pupils to the theatre and visiting exhibitions will be tested under a new £2.5 million trial. The project will be focus on schools in deprived areas where cultural participation is low, and will be run under a partnership between the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and

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Economics must return to its founding principles | Letters

January 8, 2017 at 03:39AM Wouldn’t today’s economists be better served by reading some economics history rather than relying on their models (Economics in crisis, admits Bank expert, 6 January)? JK Galbraith’s classic The Great Crash, 1929 details the things that contribute to a volatile, overheating economy, and in the foreword to the recent reprint,

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School funding cuts worse than predicted | Letters

January 8, 2017 at 03:39AM There was an omission in your article on the public services in 2017 (Society, 4 January): there was no mention of education. Yet the government’s long-awaited announcement of its national funding formula for schools has left head teachers and politicians reeling. The NUT and ATL were accused by the Department

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EU rules already offer a solution on freedom of movement |Letters

January 8, 2017 at 03:39AM On Europe, the key issue is not article 50. Rather, the answer to the question (Editorial, 6 January) on how to combine a border regime that is fluid enough to preserve economic dynamism and rigorous enough to inspire public confidence lies in articles 48 and 49 of the original treaty

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