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School Wars: upcoming events

Some of the events I will be doing over the next few weeks and months. September 21, 2011 / The Court Room, Glaziers Hall Melissa Benn: Comprehensive School Education – Policy Mistake, Lost Ideal or...

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In a very good cause…….

I will be hosting a fundraising evening on December 1st in aid of the Maya Centre, which provides therapy to low income women. The evening will feature some of our finest writers – Jill Dawson,...

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School Wars: debate hosted by the National Education Trust

 Upcoming event ‘Government education reforms will lead to a lack of accountability and greater inequality’, Melissa Benn will say at the forthcoming ‘School Wars’ debate. The debate takes place in...

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Should we stream our children?

I debate selection and streaming with Katherine Birbalsingh on the BBC. Listen here if you are interested. Go straight to Chapter 6.

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School Wars – the road trip.

Over the last eight months, I have been taking the arguments in my book School Wars around the country, talking to parents, teachers, heads in maintained schools: local authority leaders; private,...

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The question of private schools

Last month I attended a fascinating discussion about the Finnish school system by Pasi Sahlberg, author of Finnish Lessons, an account of how Finland created one of the most successful school systems...

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What Should We Tell Our Daughters? Autumn events….

Below, details of some of the events I will be taking part in over the autumn, as part of publication of ‘What Should We Tell Our Daughters?.’ ( Unless otherwise stated, this will usually be the title...

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Upcoming events and discussions

Apologies for lack of website activity over the past few months (site statistics suggest a lot of you have been visiting this site during this period) but I am sure regular readers will understand –...

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Edinburgh International Book Festival

My session at the recent Edinburgh International Book Festival ( August 17th) was filmed. There is also an added bit at the end, talking to members of the audience about their reaction to the session...

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Some autumn events

IN CONVERSATION WITH OWEN JONES September 29th, 7 pm. I will be in conversation with Owen Jones about his new book The Establishment: And how they get away with it Location: Sutton House, 2-4 Homterton...

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