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Head Hand Heart
21 December 202021 December 2020

Head Hand Heart

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Santa has brought us some unexpected history of education content this Christmas, hidden between the covers of David Goodhart’s latest book. Goodhart is a journalist, commentator and former director of the think tank Demos. His previous book, The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics (2017), introduced the categories ‘Anywheres’ and ‘Somewheres’ to the political lexicon […]

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The bad-tempered backstory of ‘Town Versus Gown’
2 September 202021 December 2020

The bad-tempered backstory of ‘Town Versus Gown’

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The concept of ‘town versus gown’ goes all the way back to the founding of medieval universities, and has played an integral, if not always noble, role in their development.

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