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Near-Zero Tolerance for Trooper Teachers

Sachin Patel | Posted 10.05.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: UK Army, Phoenix Free School, Michael Gove, UK Armed Forces, Phillip Blond, UK Education, Troops to Teachers, Free Schools, Debate Mate, Military Academies, UK Universities & Education News
Sachin Patel

There's been a lot of attention paid to the Phoenix Free School in Oldham, for instance, which will be run by a group of ex-servicemen when it opens in 2013, with a focus on discipline and zero-tolerance for bullies and other malfeasants.

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The Problem with Military Academies

Ayaz Manji | Posted 14.03.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Citizenship, Education, Military, David Cameron, Phillip Blond, Military Academies, Rowan Williams, UK Universities & Education News
Ayaz Manji

Cameron claims he's serious about filling a moral void in this country. If that's so then he needs to understand that you don't shout a bad culture into submission. You change it by making something better.

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Don't Write Off the Big Ideas

Jake Richards | Posted 08.10.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Ed Miliband, Blue Labour, Andrew Rawnsley, Helen Goodman, Big Society, Phillip Blond, David Cameron, Maurice Glasman, Bike Culture, UK Politics News
Jake Richards

The Big Society and Blue Labour are movements in crisis. Unable to inspire their relative political parties or the public, they are now seen more as the outlandish, often inflammatory, musings of academics from their ivory towers.

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