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My highlights: History, Education, and Policing
Share/Bookmark The week of 18 February 2013 offered many opportunities for reminiscing, reflection, critical analysis and for planning collective action on a number of fronts, history, education and race and policing and community security among them. On Wednesday 20 February, Global Hands and DeMontfort University, Leicester, hosted a one day symposium on Police Reform and
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Trinidad and Tobago pays tribute to Geraldine Connor
Share/Bookmark Port of Spain is getting ready to celebrate the life and work of Geraldine Connor: the Trinidad-born musicologist, singer and producer will be remembered with two musical tributes in the capital city. The main event, “Geri’s Journey“, will be held on May 25th, at 6pm at the Holy Trinity Cathedral. The second event,
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Britain honours Dr Geraldine Connor
Share/Bookmark Two gala events were recently held at the Theatre Royal in Stratford and the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, to honour the late Dr Geraldine Connor, director, a celebrated Trinidad-born musicologist, singer and producer for her contribution to the arts and education in Britain. Dancer/choreographer Carol La Chapelle, who worked closely with Connor for 12
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Moving English Forward?
Share/BookmarkI find this latest Ofsted report both interesting and worrying. It comes at a time when there is a focus on the disproportionate number of black young people unemployed and the number getting 3 A Levels – 1 out of every 50 as compared to 1 in 8 whites. Ofsted’s chief inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw
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Eulogy to Geraldine Roxanne Connor
Share/BookmarkI feel deeply honoured to have been asked by Geraldine’s family to deliver this eulogy. I have undertaken many an assignment in my day, but none with such foreboding as this. For, how does one do justice to such a monumental figure, one with such irrepressible…., volcanic energy, an energy which won’t be totally consumed,
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