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Exam nation
£22.00Exam nation
Exams, grades, league tables, Ofsted reports. All of them miss the point of school and together they are undermining our whole approach to education. What is school for? In theory, it equips young people to become independent and productive, to get jobs and forge lives, perhaps to be ‘good citizens’. In reality, it means one thing: exams. By focusing on the grades pupils get in neatly siloed, academic subjects, we end up ranking them and our schools into winners and losers. Some pupils are set on a trajectory to university – the rest are left ill-equipped for the world they actually face. Meanwhile, the ‘good’ schools become middle-class enclaves and the most disadvantaged lose out. Drawing on his twenty years as a teacher, hundreds of interviews and his experience on the UK Government’s Social Mobility Commission, Sammy Wright shows that schools are – and should be – so much more than this.
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Great Britain?
£10.99Great Britain?
Things have not been going great for Britain. Wages are flatlining, taxes are rising and public services are collapsing. Our children can’t afford to buy a house and our neighbours are reliant on foodbanks. We are all yearning for a way out of the financial crises, generational wars and political dysfunction that dominate our lives. Most of all we want our – and Britain’s – future back. Torsten Bell offers both a clear-eyed diagnosis of the problems facing the country – a uniquely toxic combination of huge inequality and stagnant economic growth – and a hopeful, bold vision for an alternative.
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How migration really works
£10.99How migration really works
Global migration is not at an all-time high. Climate change will not lead to mass migration. Immigration mainly benefits the wealthy, not workers. Border restrictions have paradoxically produced more migration. These statements might sound counter-intuitive or just outright wrong – but the facts behind the headlines reveal a completely different story to the ones we’re told about migration. In this revelatory book, based on more than three decades of research, leading expert Professor Hein de Haas explodes myths from left to right that politicians, interest groups and media regularly spread about migration.
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The Weaponisation of Everything
£10.99The Weaponisation of Everything
An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged-and how to adapt to this new reality
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Turning points
£10.99Turning points
An exploration of the most consequential events in modern British history, from seasoned political commentator and broadcaster Steve Richards.
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