How knowledge is being detached from skills in English
“Given such a content-light curriculum, assessment and training regime, who can doubt that our education system has elevated skills over knowledge?” Joe Kirby writing on Pragmatic Education argues that the education system has reduced the amount of knowledge taught in schools.
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PIP: A step in the right direction
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Accountability and responsiveness in the Senior Civil Service: a response
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Why sex education matters to “nervous” young people
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Spend to offend (the outsourcing of probation)
In Post by Richard Johnson
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Education
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How knowledge is being detached from skills in English
Post by Joe Kirby June 19th 2013 in Pragmatic Education -
Why sex education matters to “nervous” young people
Post by Laura McInerney June 19th 2013 in Laura McInerney -
The anatomy of high expectations
Post by Tom Sherrington June 18th 2013 in headguruteacher
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Health
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How migrant workers built the NHS
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Are GPs too lazy?
Post by George Farrelly June 4th 2013 in One GP's Protest -
Discharge is key to emergency care crisis
Post by Mark Newbold May 27th 2013 in Mark Newbold
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Local Government
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Bedroom Tax – council legal fictions to cover up their incompetence
Post by Joe Halewood June 6th 2013 in SPeye -
Moral disgust, financial discipline and efficiency: Smartcards and 21st century welfare
Post by Teresa Cairns May 31st 2013 in An Epistolary Project -
Attention youth workers! Radical change is coming – look busy
Post by Gethyn Williams May 24th 2013 in The Youth Sector Blog Site
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Social Care
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Carers need more than hugs and chocolate
Post by Jane McIntyre June 16th 2013 in Once a journalist... -
Ordinary residence, extraordinary mess
Post by Saba Salman May 25th 2013 in The Social Issue -
Do we still value people for who they are?
Post by Jane Young May 17th 2013 in Jane Young
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Welfare
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PIP: A step in the right direction
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Hallelujah! The miracle of Atos strikes again
Post by Sue Marsh June 14th 2013 in Diary of a Benefit Scrounger -
Myths about DLA and PIP
Post by The Hardest Hit June 12th 2013 in The Hardest Hit
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Policing
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Decisions without due care and attention
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Bailing out
Post by The Custody Sgt May 30th 2013 in The Custody Record -
Woolwich and the case against the Snoopers’ Charter!
Post by Paul Bernal May 29th 2013 in Paul Bernal's Blog
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Justice
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Spend to offend (the outsourcing of probation)
Post by Richard Johnson June 18th 2013 in Buying Quality Performance -
Imagine if we said “why doesn’t HE just leave HER” in cases of domestic violence against women
Post by Systems thinking for girls June 17th 2013 in Systems thinking for girls -
Omnishambles update 6
Post by Jim Brown June 14th 2013 in On Probation Blog
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Young People
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Why sex education matters to “nervous” young people
Post by Laura McInerney June 19th 2013 in Laura McInerney -
Attention youth workers! Radical change is coming – look busy
Post by Gethyn Williams May 24th 2013 in The Youth Sector Blog Site -
Do black boys need black role models?
Post by David McQueen May 20th 2013 in Tall. Black. One Sugar
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Housing
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Bedroom Tax arrears – huge and why social landlords need a major rethink
Post by Joe Halewood June 14th 2013 in SPeye -
Three reasons a freemium model would never work in housing
Post by Matthew Gardiner June 13th 2013 in From where I sit -
Attacking housing benefit is not the answer, investing in new, affordable homes is
Post by Andy Winter June 12th 2013 in Andy Winter's BHT Blog
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Disability
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PIP: A step in the right direction
Post by David Gillon June 19th 2013 in Where's the Benefit? -
Hallelujah! The miracle of Atos strikes again
Post by Sue Marsh June 14th 2013 in Diary of a Benefit Scrounger -
Myths about DLA and PIP
Post by The Hardest Hit June 12th 2013 in The Hardest Hit
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Mental Health
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Delays and more delays: The College of Social Work AMHP Practice Survey 2013
Post by The Masked AMHP June 6th 2013 in The Masked AMHP -
Why the #Woolwich murder is almost certainly not about #mentalhealth
Post by Zarathustra May 24th 2013 in The World of Mentalists -
You don’t appreciate what you’ve got until it’s gone
Post by CAMHS to Adult May 20th 2013 in CAMHS to Adult
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Guerilla Policy
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Accountability and responsiveness in the Senior Civil Service: a response
Post by Puffles June 19th 2013 in A dragon's best friend -
Prejudice or privilege? Some difficulties with privilege-checking
Post by Zarathustra June 17th 2013 in The Not So Big Society -
Declining investment in research threatens to undermine evidence-based policymaking
Post by Michael Harris June 16th 2013 in Guerilla Policy
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