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The government white paper and NEU conference: A look at a month in education
Teacher Robert Poole reflects on the government’s education white paper and the key events from the NEU 2022 conference
NEU conference 2022, in Bournemouth
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THE big educational news since my last column has been the exciting release of the government’s education white paper.
The paper opens with a foreword from the Secretary of State for Education Nadhim Zahawi. The foreword is accompanied by a photo of Zahawi in which he stares at the camera with a half smirk giving off clear Demon Headmaster vibes.
As is the way of politicians, they have to include a story to help us relate to them and prove that they too have experience of being a child. For Zahawi it is to tell us about how he was a disruptive child who knew “what it is like to feel that a bright future is a long way away.” Yes, life was hard for poor Nadhim at his £21,000-a-year private school in Wimbledon.
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