Category Archives: Education

What you see is what you get

Posted on April 11, 2006 by simon

Claims for the effects of the arts in school have reached dolphin-like proportions in recent years. In the same way that the fashion for swimming with dolphins led to cures for everything from dyslexia to depression, the so-called Mozart effect … Continue reading →

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Why schools need ground control to launch reforms

Posted on February 18, 2006 by simon

This is not a remarkable story about an extraordinary man. It’s a bog-standard story about a good man. Terry Creissen has three sons, a wife and a mortgage. He also has passion. In the stilted language of an Ofsted compliment, … Continue reading →

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Language of survival is what refugees need most

Posted on December 21, 2005 by simon

Luljeta arrived in Britain in 1999. She came via Italy and France, and it cost her and her husband £8,000. But she didn’t fly in first-class. She arrived in Portsmouth in the back of a truck with 50 other people … Continue reading →

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