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Gove threatens to close failing academies
Richard Garner: Sponsors of government academies will be stripped of their powers to run schools if they fail to raise standards, the Education Secretary said yesterday.
'We want to keep our father's story alive': A new generation is taking Holocaust stories into classrooms
It was an accident that alerted Motek Grzmot's saviours to his presence. An accidental groan. Unconscious, slumped atop a cart, all but buried under a mound of corpses, Grzmot's battered body was destined to join a thousand others in the mass graves of postwar Europe. And then he groaned. Without realising it, he had saved himself. The Danish troops around him heard his cry and removed him from the pile – a pile headed directly for burial – before placing him on another vehicle, this one headed to a nearby hospital.
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Why is the government not actively supporting the future of University-anchored teacher training?
The Times Education Supplement Survey showed a total of 58 per cent of people would prefer to employ a university-trained newly qualified teacher.
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