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‘Powerful example’: minister looks to Essex school for blueprint to transform Send provision

Georgia Gould says moving system towards inclusion will mean parents ‘don’t need to fight’ for support in future Pupils with Send plans in England likely to double in rush for support Georgia Gould is in a race against time. And the minister responsible for overhauling England’s special educational needs provision is hoping that a state school in Colchester will help her beat the clock. Gould visited Thomas Lord Audley secondary school last week to see the secrets of its success in persuading local parents that it can help children with special needs thrive in a mainstream setting. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Richard Adams Education editor6 Sept

A Death of One’s Own by Terry Eagleton review – meditations on arriving at a full stop

The literary critic brings his vast reading to bear on life’s most inescapable fact Terry Eagleton is not a fan of sloppy thinking, especially when it comes to the granite fact of death. He particularly doesn’t like the attitude of Dylan Thomas who famously urged his ailing father to “not go gentle into that good night”. If the “night” – death – is so “good” then why, asks Eagleton reasonably, would Thomas want his dad to dawdle? Shouldn’t DJ Thomas, rather, be encouraged to trot towards his lovely end like an ecstatic marathon runner on the home straight? Eagleton’s reproach to Thomas’s doublethink should not be read as panicky denial about the reality of his own mortality. To the contrary, Eagleton, who at 83 admits that he wasn’t sure whether this book would end up being published posthumously, finds it hard to think or write about much else. After a 60-year academic career spent tussling with Marxist literary theory, not to mention the epistemological void at the heart of postmodernism criticism, these days Eagleton is more interested in pondering death and how it “lacks a sense of occasion”. It might visit, for example, while you happen to be dressed in a giraffe outfit. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Kathryn Hughes3 Sept