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What do tests tell us?
Education & Development

What do tests tell us?

...while the UK is looking eastwards, China is looking to the west – and turning to British-style education because Chinese parents find it more creative. Part 2, to be posted after Episode 3 of the series is shown, looks in detail at the results of the tests which were taken by Year 9 at Bohunt School to see if more can be learned than who ‘won’ and who ‘lost’....
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Who is Theresa May?
Society, Politics & Law

Who is Theresa May?

...Education in June 1999, when the Conservative Party was the party of opposition. When then leader William Hague departed, his successor Iain Duncan Smith appointed May as shadow Secretary of State for transport. Then in 2002, she became chairman of the Conservative Party. Her style was calm, collected and, as the “nasty party” reference suggests, not afraid to point...
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Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?
Languages

Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?

...education and solid moral character, and in the case of political leaders, an indication of due attention to detail and decorum. This norm is so embedded that over the years, rogue spelling errors have inflicted serious damage on a number of political careers. The most well-known of these is probably George HW Bush’s famously inept vice-president, Dan Quayle: visiting a...
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How Spanish sounded across its history
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How Spanish sounded across its history

...education. Her work Aves sin nido (Birds without nest) claims against how indigenous men and women were treated as slaves. This extract tells us about the relief of a family whose debts have been condoned. Transcript The 20th-21st centuries - Cien años de soledad Spanish literature is filled up with prominent writers from the 20th and 21st centuries. Among them, novels...
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Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...educational programmes in music and art. Adult lawbreakers could be helped with community-based employment and job skills training. Implementing social policies The current focus of punishing the offender has meant that the victim is largely ignored. One radical alternative would be to turn the system on its head – rather than inflict pain and suffering the aim of...
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The new politics of climate change
Nature & Environment

The new politics of climate change

...educational and developmental purposes, including the development of critical thinking and use of balanced information that is based on evidence. In this way, they could be viewed as a means to combat the problems of fake news and pseudoscientific and conspiracy thinking that is prevalent in modern politics. Assemblies are constituted by sortition, a process of randomly...
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We shouldn’t judge Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by its cover
History & The Arts

We shouldn’t judge Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by its cover

...Education, Vol. 22 No. 1 March 1991:pp59-73) examines the concerns that Dahl’s work is too violent, sexist and even racist (consider Wonka’s slurs about his highly racialised workforce) for modern children. Penguin’s cover was definitely provocative – but if it gets a generation of adults to re-read the book it will be an effective one. Leafing through it again, I...
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Why are synthetic drugs such a problem for the UK's prisons?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are synthetic drugs such a problem for the UK's prisons?

...around both drug supply and demand. But it is also essential that there are moral education campaigns that raise awareness about both the harms of taking drugs and the inherent harms of prison itself. Only then will we be able to talk about dealing with drug taking in places of safety. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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