Tag Archives: austerity

No austerity of the imagination

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Eddie Playfair

What’s the mood in sixth form and further education 10 weeks after the election? Following the May general election there’s no question that post-16 education wherever it takes place faces greater austerity than any other phase of education. 16-18 year olds are funded … Continue reading →

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From Bamako to Timbuktu

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Eddie Playfair

The brilliant director Abderrahmane Sissakou grew up in Mali and has named two of his films after Malian cities: Bamako and Timbuktu. Watching these two remarkable films recently over one weekend in the sequence they were made was a moving … Continue reading →

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Teachers create wealth too!

Posted on July 4, 2015 by Eddie Playfair

It’s become a commonplace to say that wealth has to be created before it can be spent and the received wisdom in mainstream political discourse is that the private sector does the wealth creating which then allows the public sector … Continue reading →

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