31 December 2009 13:55
Reading was a big part of my life. I devoured books and continue to do so. They enabled me escape from the mundane and ignited in me a lifelong love of language. The government is giving free books to schools. If you were drawing up the list, which books...
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30 December 2009 09:42
2009 was an interesting year in education in Norfolk. It included the rise and rise of academies, with the county likely to have as many as six within two years. Funding for rebuilt or revamped FE colleges fell apart, consigning our post-16s to more years...
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15 December 2009 09:40
Thought I'd take some time to review my first six months of irregular and inconsistent blogging.
The nature of the blog beast is that people are most likely to comment when I say something deliberately provocative. So If I start writing things...
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11 December 2009 16:00
When you send your children to school, you like to think that they are safe - particularly from the worst excesses of the interweb. So it is a shock to hear that Norfolk kids accessed explicit porn 25 times in two years on school computers. Yes, County...
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04 December 2009 14:11
Working on a front-page story for tomorrow's EDP (Saturday, December 5th, in case you're reading this tomorrow. Or should that be today?). It'll say Norfolk has one of the worst records in England for recruiting headteachers. One-third of primary...
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