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Education Business, In The News, Schools, Teaching
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Five East Anglia schools form tutoring partnerships with TLC Education Group TLC Education Group, the specialist maths and English tutoring provider, today announces five partnerships with schools across East Anglia. The Samuel Ward Academy and Wymondham High School in Suffolk, Coleridge Community College and Parkside Community College in Cambridge, and the Open Academy in Norwich, [...]
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Diane Ravitch, In The News, Schools
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

Save Our Schools March & National Call to Action! July 28-31, 2011 in Washington, D.C. and around the country We’re putting the Public back in public schools! We, a collection of people from all walks of life and every corner of this nation, embody a mixture of ideas and opinions regarding how we can improve [...]
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In The News, Media Watch, Politics
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

With the revelations surrounding Murdoch’s newspaper empire coming thick and fast, there is one Member of the UK Parliament who has remained strangely quiet given his links to News International, his former employer. The MP? Our own Education Secretary Michael Gove. That is, former Times journalist Michael Gove. That is, the husband of Sarah Vine [...]
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In The News, Teach First, Teaching, Tories
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

When you consider how desperate times apparently are in the UK, it would help that those with a democratic mandate were talking to each other. Last week, Ian Duncan Smith urged the recruitment of British workers, a few weeks before that Michael “The Governor” Gove decided to relax the rules regulating the employment of overseas-trained [...]
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In The News, Teach for Australia, Unions
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

Australian ABC News on yet more teaching union opposition to Teach for Australia: “The Northern Territory Education Union has slammed the Territory Government over its plans to employ people who are not qualified teachers to teach in Territory schools. Teach for Australia is a program that began in Victoria last year and will now be [...]