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CONRAD LANDIN recommends a journalist’s account of reporting on the ‘war’ between government and educators for three decades

The Thirty Years War: My Life Reporting on Education, by Richard Garner (John Catt, £13)

BRITAIN’S education system is perhaps the thing our rulers are least prepared to leave to the experts.

This is, of course, nothing new. The genesis of mass schooling did not take place in a political vacuum and nor did the 1944 Education Act, nor still the introduction of comprehensives.

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