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Category: Commentary
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Whoever taught Suli Breaks such eloquence must feel very proud… …so why isn’t eloquence taught as a formal discipline? It is far more
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If you had to put one date on the Industrial Revolution, it would probably be 1776. This was the date when James Watt installed his first Atmospheric Steam Engine; an engine that for the first time did more work than the horses required to feed it with coal. It changed everything. Industrialisation led to huge increases…
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This video about the (lack of) future of work asks a lot of questions about what your students will do, if anything, when they leave education. It offers no answers, but I would take that as an opportunity for contemplation and debate.
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Dear Nicky Morgan May I add my voice to the many congratulating you on your promotion to Education Minister. I would like to draw your attention to an unfortunate, and probably unintended, consequence of the disapplication of National Curriculum Levels by your predecessor. The NC Levels are a national system of criterion referencing that gives…
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You may know that whilst I am based in the UK, the Yacapaca office is in Kharkov, Ukraine; currently in the news because the statue of Lenin here was uniquely not demolished after the fall of the dictator Viktor Yanukovich. Although there has been no serious fighting here, two colleagues from local software companies were killed…
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