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How valuable are “British values”?

How valuable are “British values”?

A teacher and philosophical anarchist reflects on schools’ imposed language – I have two confessions to make; First, I am part of the state system: I am a teacher, inculcating society’s rules in this sociocultural context since the mid-1990s. I entered the world of education with the notion that it could empower others. I’d worked with younger students, those who had fallen by the wayside, or perhaps more appropriately, those who had been failed by the system. I had the belief that I could change the system, especially as an academic. Yet the system appears exceedingly averse to change.

Language teachers win redundancy fight after two-month campaign

Language teachers win redundancy fight after two-month campaign

After the Delfin English School in London sacked all of its staff just before Christmas, subsequently declaring itself bankrupt, Tefl teachers with the syndicalist IWW union organised a picketing and social media campaign which has now won its fight for proper redundancy terms. The TEFL Workers’ Union, which represents staff at the school, said the