Will Hughes slammed his pen down in frustration. It was ten fifteen on a rainy September night and he’d been marking Ha...

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When I went slightly mad a few years ago and decided to try my hand at teaching (I was useless), the main thing that made me throw in the t...

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My must-see TV of the week is Channel 4’s Jamie’s Dream School – the series where Jamie Oliver gets a host of celebrities to teach 20 tricky...