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Scandal For Schools

Peter Abbs A COMMON POLICY FOR EDUCATION by Mary Warnock OUP, .£12.95, pp. 185 T hose who teach in the public sector of education, in whatever institution, at what- ever level,......

An Encounter

I had not come for what I found: a stone, Some faded pieties, two dates, And above all a name, my own, Confronting me: an open eye, Immobile, hard as winter nights, Relentless......

Many Hands Make A Light Work

Francis King BLACK BOX by Amos Oz Chatto & Windus, £11.95, pp.259 ith Smollett's The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker, Richardson's Pamela and Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses,......