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Free Schools; What is Gove’s Real Agenda?
Before the riots and civil unrest came to dominate the news, the Independent carried a story about the Diaspora Free School whose application had been rejected...
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The X-Factor – Diamante Tsunami
The original definition of X Factor was a little different to that of today The ‘X-Factor’, denoting that indefinable quality which singles someone out as a star has not yet made it into the Oxford...
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Dale Farm: Racists and the ‘law must be upheld’ brigade
Apply the law equally to all? The Dale Farm evictions are over. Millions of words have been piled up writing about this issue, and given that words are still largely free, even in this age of...
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The TeachMeet: It’s fixed, do we need to break it?
Since BETT I have been thinking about the TeachMeet, not a particular teachmeet but rather the phenomenon of the TeachMeet and where it might be going. Or even if it needs to ‘go’ anywhere at all . ....
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CampEd12…
This weekend was CampEd12, a learning festival held, for the first time, near Oxenhope in Yorkshire. The event was conceived after Tim Rylands commented that learning conferences were often too...
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The future of Glow
This week I attended the Scottish Learning Festival, and went to the TeachMeet to hear a little more about what is going on in Scottish education. In between the usual teach-mmet presentations and...
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 24,000 views in 2012....
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Teachmeets… NOT FOR SALE!
Osiris Educational is now offering a ‘free directory of TeachMeets’ and also enhanced paid-for packages to help TeachMeet organisers promote their event. Osiris Educational are a for-profit company...
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Getting the best out of BETT…
These chumps have got BETT all wrong. Firstly they are not wearing clothes, and secondly they’ve gone on the train, not a in time machine… Woohoo; BETT 2015 is well underway. But the question on every...
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