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By Ian Dunt The Tories want school league tables to be replaced by a points system which would weigh traditional academic subjects over those seen as easier, like media studies. In a set of proposals presented by shadow education secretary Michael Gove, the party shrugged off the reliance on a league table system, which ranks… Read more »
By Liz Stephens A damning audit of young offenders’ institutes (YOI’s) has revealed “extraordinary squalor and institutional brutality”. The audit, which was carried out by the Howard League for Penal Reform for a recent court case, deemed many institutions “seriously unsafe”. It found in many places, children are regularly denied access to showers, toilets and… Read more »
