Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

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Let's keep the arms length body at arms length
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Let's keep the arms length body at arms length

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Terry Freedman
Oct 24, 2022
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Sherlock Holmes, by Terry Freedman

The Department for Education in England has expressed the wish to take the Oak Academy into a form of public ownership in the form of an arms length body (ALB), which probably doesn't mean what it seems to mean. "Arms length" would imply no interference in the market for educational resources, so the very existence of a…

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