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In deep, stormy waters: Scotland, the UK and the politics of fishing
Nature & Environment

In deep, stormy waters: Scotland, the UK and the politics of fishing

...English port. In descending order of catch, the Scottish locations are: Peterhead Lerwick (pictured above) Fraserburgh Scrabster Ullapool Kinlochbervie Scalloway and Isles Cullivoe Mallaig. The relative importance of Scottish fishing ports raises a number of thorny and contentious issues, which are likely to unfold and become more significant in the post-Brexit era. The...
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Mortgage vs rent
Money & Business

Mortgage vs rent

...English renting. It would be nice if any government had a joined-up strategy on housing. I mean we’re never going to solve the housing problems in the UK, whether it's boom or bust, until we have a better balance between the number of housing units available and the demand for those housing units. We don’t have that now, we haven't had it probably since the Second...
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Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...English for progression onto college or university or two, on an interest basis, if they had an interest in the subject outside of the exam. They don't necessarily work in the same way as schools a lot of kids don't write stuff down and there you know audio learners or kinaesthetic learners. - Young person T EHE students’ unstructured and non-linear, self-taught...
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Legacy of the Romantics
History & The Arts

Legacy of the Romantics

...English courses and qualifications. [Character of Mary Shelley] Nowadays the word ‘romantic’ tends to trigger associations with love and sentimentality, but the period known as the Romantic era encompassed so much more! Romanticism is notoriously difficult to define and has been interpreted in various ways in different countries. However, it is true to say that it...
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Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday
Education & Development

Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday

...English combatant who was killed in 1916. In 2014, his photograph appeared on a First Class Stamp to commemorate the centenary of the conflict. But underneath the image, and cropped out from the stamp, is the annotation William’s mother added to the photograph that she sent in remembrance of her son to the Imperial War Museum in 1919. It begins ‘Mother’s Billie...
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Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education
Education & Development

Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education

...English, Dari, Pashto, or a language of their choice. Building intercultural competence and communicative skills through Peace Education [A group of young children sitting in a circle in a classroom]Children in a London school act out their rights in a circle time session about Afghanistan.An activity as simple as ‘fruit salad' is one way into the thrilling challenge of...
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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...The Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse Edited by John Hayward, Clarendon Press On Becoming a Person Carl Ransom Rogers, Houghton Mifflin Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak, Harmondsworth / Penguin. Poem S Webster Positive News No15, Winter/Spring Home is Where We Start From Donald Woods Winnicott, Harmondsworth/Penguin. Read more articles on childhood...
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'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?
Education & Development

'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?

...inequality in English secondary schools: A critical review of the research literature between 1980 and 2005’, Review of Educational Research, 77(2), pp. 147–185. Strand, S. (2014) ‘Ethnicity, gender, social class and achievement gaps at age 16: Intersectionality and “getting it” for the white working class’, Oxford Review of Education, 40(2), pp. 223–245....
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