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The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley – book review

Being asked to review Alex Quigley’s new book is serendipitous – and daunting. He is a Twitter teacher of some repute; an assistant head at Huntington school in York; a fellow English teacher, and has already been published in the How to Teach series. Not only that, a couple of years ago I applied for a job […]

The practicalities of making students study English to 18

More teachers will be needed to teach students who don’t really want to be there. . . and just as more budget cuts are about to hit further education. Why hasn’t someone thought this through? After teaching English in secondary schools for 12 or so years, I began working as an FE lecturer in Warwickshire; […]