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May 15 2016

On Becoming a Teacher

The Confident Teacher / By Alex Quigley / 5 minutes of reading

(Image via Ian Boyd on Flickr.com) If you want to find a story about teachers leaving the profession, you don’t have to look very hard. A simple Google search reveals the Guardian bemoaning the failure of recruitment and the loss of 11% of teachers, Sky news exclaims that ‘More Teachers are Quitting than Ever!‘, a …

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May 27 2014

Whose Canon is it Anyway?

Uncategorized / By Alex Quigley / 4 minutes of reading

Few things in education are as spectacularly emotive and ire-inducing as the choice of books we read for English Literature in schools. This last week we have seen Gove receive a full-frontal assault for the mere suggestion of removing books from the GCSE specification (did he or didn’t he – the inspector will likely call). …

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