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Phonics in primary schools: an unfinished revolution
Phonics and the phonics check have improved standards - but there is much more to do
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DFE versus the Home Office on foreign students
Overseas students mean very different things in different parts of our HE system
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Down a Norwegian rabbit hole at Easter
A search for a tune I heard thirteen years ago has led all kinds of good places
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Measuring attainment and disadvantage in schools
And why the 'John Harvey Jones' model of school improvement isn't the way forward.
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The government is not serious about fixing the great university rip-off
New data from a Freedom of Information request reveals where students have paid back more or less of their loans
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Vandalism on apprenticeships
Phillipson is chopping down the tall poppies yet again
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The curriculum review: dumbing down?
Next week we’re expecting the interim report of the Curriculum and Assessment review.
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