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Why has the ‘learning styles’ theory persisted without any evidence? And what do we actually know about how we learn?

I’d always been interested in the stories my parents and grandparents told about their lives in Iraq, which seemed so impossibly distant from my childhood in 1970s London. It was only when I became a ...

is an English teacher who’s interested in the stories people tell themselves and what those reveal. After years of exploring different kinds of therapy, she found an unlikely source of insight in an ...

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At a time of rising intolerance, the century-old work of C E M Joad reminds us what tolerance really is and why we need it ...

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‘I don’t think about the future too much. I’m always thinking about the past.’ Born in Khartoum, Sudan, the artist Salah Elmur creates vivid paintings rooted in Sudanese life, politics and his ...

Atar Hadari arrived in England from Asia aged eight and trained as an actor before studying poetry and playwriting under Derek Walcott.

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