As Northern Ireland, through the DUP Education Minister Paul Givan, faces the prospect of a programme of radical education reform (widely parodied by opponents as a “Cut and Paste” job akin to the 2010-14 “Gove Reforms” in England), England appears set to 'row back' from Gove. A case of 'one step forward, two steps back' ! Below, in the first of … Continue reading Gove Reforms: What Now In England? And Northern Ireland?
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Census And Common Sense
With great fanfare, we now know what was in the 1926 Census but, like many censuses, we don’t know what’s not in it! That is a known unknown, and of course that will always be so, but it’s useful to realise that it is not the full picture. All censuses take place in a political … Continue reading Census And Common Sense