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Melissa Benn

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Author of Public Lives, One of Us, School Wars, Life Lessons and others. Working on two new writing projects.
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Exam Nation — Sammy Wright on how the school system is failing students

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By Melissa Benn
| Financial Times Verified
Sammy Wright is the latest representative of an interesting cohort: high flyers who have gone into teaching in state schools and have...
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A Goldsmiths Diary

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By Melissa Benn, Stefan Collini, Francis Mulhern
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These are desperate times in the UK higher education system. Every week there are closures of degrees or departments, and sizeable redundancies. Disproportionately it is the arts, humanities and social sciences that are affected, a consequence of their downgrading in recent years. The frequency with which common-sense opinion pieces in the tabloid press have questioned (and often ridiculed) the value of the liberal education prepares the ground for so many of these cuts.
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By Melissa Benn
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