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Mending Broken Britain? Education’s Response
Last February, Professor Gus John delivered a keynote address at the “Mending Broken Britain? Education’s Response” Conference, which was organised by Curriculum Enrichment for the Common Era (CE4CE) and sponsored by Birmingham City University. Against the background of the riots that spread across Britain in August 2011, this national conference aimed to unpick something of the complex
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Black, Asian, minority ethnic communities and inner city riots
The following speech was delivered at the “Beyond the Unrest – Community Safety & Civil Society” seminar, promoted by the BME Leadership & Engagement project, on November 29th, 2011. The subject I have been asked to address is vast and it is simply impossible to do justice to it in the time I have been
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Open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron
This open letter was sent to the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, on August 13th, 2011. Dear Prime Minister, I write as someone whose contribution for more than four decades to the struggle for quality schooling and education for all and for racial equality and social justice is a matter of public record. I write
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London Riots: a youthful underclass
Chalk Farm became one more of some unlikely places to be targeted by violent street protesters in the last few days. It was also the scene of yet one more of those senseless killings of young people by their peers in recent months. What is it that connects these events? The serious violent unrest we
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