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Focus on: Education systems in a post-truth world

15 March 2018

"I think people in this country have had enough of experts" – Michael Gove, former Secretary of State for Education of the United Kingdom

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Focus on: Is one country's brain gain another one's drain

15 March 2018

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow." – Woodrow Wilson

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Focus on: Why, when and how should children learn a foreign language

15 March 2018

"The borders of my language are the borders of my world." – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (5.6)

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Focus on: Do international university rankings serve a useful purpose

15 March 2018

There are a few great orchestras in the world, thank goodness. Although some people do put them in ranking order, it's not like a snooker match. Each orchestra has different things to offer. – Simon Rattle

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Focus on: Citizenship Education in the age of likes, hashtags and memes

15 March 2018

"A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline". Kofi Annan 

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Focus on: The Long Shadow of NEET

15 March 2018

"…there are shadows because there are hills" - E.M. Forster

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Focus on: Mental Health in education: an unspoken issue of our age

15 March 2018

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" - Jiddu Krishnamurti

When children have physical health problems, schools are soon aware of them. Similarly awareness-raising activities on the importance of physical health are commonplace, whether the focus is on nutrition, hygiene or sport. But although children are equally likely to suffer from mental as physical health problems, mental health is much less likely to be addressed in schools. Why is this, and what is the impact of neglecting mental health in education?

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