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Schools Are Not Businesses. A Message to Lord Nash.

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Lord Nash, speaking at the Challenge Partnership national conference, titled his talk: ‘what is relevant in business to education?’ According to the TES, he said that: “…too often teachers have confused their individuality with their professionalism… Being a professional means embracing accountability, standardisation and consistency, although of course we want our teachers to be inspiring.” He went […]

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Glasgow School of Art's ashes turned into artworks to fund rebuild

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Artists including Grayson Perry and Anish Kapoor create pieces using debris from Mackintosh building gutted by fire in 2014 Some of the biggest names in art, from Grayson Perry to Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley, have created artworks from the ashes of Glasgow School of Art to help raise funds for the building’s restoration. The

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Andy McNab says joyless education is damaging poor children's literacy

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Bravo Two Zero author, who didn’t learn to read until he was 16, says his experience working in schools shows that a box-ticking approach to tuition inhibits reading skills of the less privileged Government literacy policy that emphasises grammar over enjoyment is discriminating against poor children and has contributed to England’s position at the bottom

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Could Kylie Minogue's surname change really give her more Sasse? | Gary Nunn

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Just as Kylie’s impending nuptials signal the evolution of brand Minogue, celebrities from Elton John to Katy Perry have long believed a name can shape a destiny Why does former Australian health minister Sussan Ley have three Ss in her first name when two would suffice? And are the constituents of the New South Wales

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