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Festivals and all that

Education festivals and conferences have become popular and are big business by now.


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The Arts versus The Sciences

Immediately after the announcement there were letters in the papers about the interconnectedness of the arts and science and the very real importance of each


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Germany at the British Museum: History isn’t simply Politics and Events

This history is a welcome antidote to the obsession with the 12 years of Nazi power.


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The School We’d Like

You grow up in schools, learn in them, play in them, for 15000 hours of your life (That is an actual calculation).


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Also in the News: Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships are also now increasingly linked with social policy and welfare reform, whereas before they were influenced mainly by industrial and education policy.


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Emotional Intelligence, Vulnerability and the Brain: Part 2

Vulnerability is a central part of being alive and being human.


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Emotional Intelligence, Vulnerability and the Brain : Part 1

The expression of emotions and personal stories being heard promotes pupils’ capacity for rational learning.


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Technology: A help or hindrance in class?

IT should be viewed as an important tool for learning, but teachers must first decide on the precise nature of learning objectives.


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Educational Snobbery

There does exist such a disparity between the quality of education offered by schools and universities that educational snobbery is inevitable.


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In Flanders Fields the Poppies Blow

In May 1915, a Canadian officer serving as a gunner and physician on the Western Front, Lt. Colonel John McCrea, wrote a poem that has resonated around the globe for a century. The poem was written in the form of a rondeau, a short verse form of medieval France which is usually split into two […]


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