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Recent Posts

  • Expelled – then what? Thrown to the Wolves. Some youngsters need adult company if they are to grow up April 29, 2019
  • Testing children and declining English literacy April 18, 2019
  • “Batty” English examinations – Sunday Times April 14, 2019

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