JONATHAN JANSEN | Forked-tongue education: have we learnt nothing?
Recent education policy announcements deserve a closer examination than we have seen in the past few weeks
17 August 2022 - 20:18
Why are we so gullible? In the past two weeks the government announced two major policy positions in education which were swallowed whole by our media houses. Maybe it’s a slow news cycle and we’re desperate for headlines that grab the public’s moneyed attention. But I have seldom seen such political nonsense from our ministers reported as fact...
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