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Social Impact Survey 2011 - “Excellent education professionals who share best practice”
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If you let 'School Operating Companies' run schools, is that privatisation?
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18/03/2012
Written by Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner
Rumours are out that great swathes of the nation are to be ‘privatised’. As soon as these words are muttered solemn faces befall the crowd and people start yelling about trains. No-one is happy that the trains were privatised. All the problems of the rails were caused by privatisation. Boo –...
When Dad Met Ahmed
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04/03/2012
By Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner
When my dad told a group of students that his bus-driver training involved racing double-deckers I made a motion of despair by banging my head against the wall. Dad clearly saw me, the students didn’t. Undeterred he continued telling them how useful hourly paid work was (his overtime got us through some tricky...
In defence of Heat Magazine
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20/02/2012
By Loic Menzies, LKMco Director
When news broke that “Heat Magazine” and “Britain’s Got Talent” were the latest additions to the Edexcel English GCSE specification all hell broke loose amongst education commentators. Joseph Reynolds argued that it “is a prime example of aiming at the lowest common denominator,” Toby Young criticised it as a failure to ensure that texts...
What The History of Forceps Can Teach Us About Academies
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17/02/2012
By Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner
For 130 years the Chamberlen family kept a secret which, had it been shared, would have prevented decades of untimely deaths. In the late 1500s, Peter Chamberlen - a London-based French surgeon - developed the first tool for successfully extracting live infants otherwise obstructed during labour. Chamerberlen’s...
