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		<title>Is it possible to teach character and values?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fraser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Launch of Jubilee Centre of Character and Values. Anthony Seldon:  “The cult of personality has run rampant. It is time to return to more old-fashioned values”.]]></description>
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		<title>What do you think of the SEN proposals?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fraser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The planned Children and Families Bill would “introduce a single, simpler assessment process for children with SEN or disabilities ... part of the biggest reforms to SEN provision in 30 years”. (Updated)]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Japanese – or Chinese, or Swedish, or American – or Finnish&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.voicetheunion.org.uk/?p=4812</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fraser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg  believes that “classroom teaching has changed little since Victorian times” and that England's schools should take lessons from Japan.]]></description>
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		<title>Schools compete for cash? Britain’s Got Clegg? The Clegg Factor? Nick Clegg’s The Voice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fraser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schools to “compete” for a “£10,000 pupil premium award” (Nick Clegg)  ]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the Michael: Monty Wilshaw’s Media Circus Presents: The Four (stressed) Yorkshiremen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fraser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ofsted’s Chief Inspector tell teachers they’re not really “stressed”.]]></description>
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		<title>“Unions continue long-term decline” – but not Voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 08:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fraser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comments by The Federation of European Employers (FedEE)]]></description>
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		<title>What about the women, Mr Gove? Why mostly white men?</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.voicetheunion.org.uk/?p=4763</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 15:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fraser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speech to the co-educational Brighton College by Education Secretary Michael Gove ]]></description>
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		<title>Good news for Scottish schools and families growing up in Scotland</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.voicetheunion.org.uk/?p=4743</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fraser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up in Scotland Study and Scottish Government's reaction contrasted with DfE's approach, English/Welsh media's reporting and comments by England's Schools Commissioner on parenting. ]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Classroom Assistants: remember “Valuable Assets”?</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.voicetheunion.org.uk/?p=4740</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fraser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Highland Council is undertaking a “Review of Classroom Support”.]]></description>
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		<title>Mobiles in schools: ban them or use them?</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.voicetheunion.org.uk/?p=4733</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fraser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ofsted’s Chief Inspector has said that disruption during lesson times is often down to the use of mobiles.
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