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`...and Statistics'

'[Following last year's storm] insurance companies have already paid out more than £1.8 million, with 10 per cent of claims still not settled. Since more than a third of......

How Teachers Learn

Michael Trend questions the quality and usefulness of teacher training WHO will teach the teachers? For some years now many on the Left of British politics have realised what an......

Sod The Public Ii

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