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The Unteachables

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The good, the bad and the ugly

Desk covered in graffiti

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What's happened in education over the past century or so? And what lies ahead? We look at how teachers teach and investigate some old and new themes.

One relative newcomer is our National Curriculum. Since the 1980s, our teachers have been told by the government what to teach. What's included in the National Curriculum and how flexible is it?

And finally, school days are the best days of our life, aren't they? Not always. So what's the problem? Any young person can encounter difficulties that get in the way of their learning. But there's help at hand if it all goes wrong.