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Monthly Archives: June 2015

Those damned confusing words!

I read recently on Facebook that one of my friends had encountered ‘hoards’ of Japanese tourists during her visit to Cambridge. Unless the city has started hoarding its tourists in cupboards and refusing to allow them to leave, I would imagine my friend was referring to ‘hordes’. It’s not a surprising error. Indeed, it’s not [...]

Open letter to Nicky Morgan, Secretary of State for Education: is the media really at fault for the decline in teacher training applications?

Dear Nicky, It has been news for some time now that this year has seen a fall in the number of teacher training applications, and I read this morning that you blame the media for its negative portrayal of teachers and teaching. I agree that the media has made a bad situation much worse, but [...]