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IF THERE is a buzzword for the political and news agenda this week, that word is education — the lack of it, the attempted denial of it and the downright oddness of it.
To illustrate the last point, we go to Samworth Church Academy in Mansfield, where pupils have been banned from putting their hands up to answer questions in class after the head teacher said it was always the same ones responding.
Apparently, the academy will now only allow the raising of hands “to establish silence for listening,” according to principal Barry Found.
STUC to call on British government to end arms sales to Israel and the Scottish government to end enterprise grants for weapons manufacturers
Incredibly, US Republican states are systematically dismantling child labour protections, with children transformed back into the cheap, disposable workers of the Dickens era, reports ANDREW MURRAY
