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Articles by Warwick Mansell
Warwick Mansell
is a reporter for the Times Educational Supplement. His book, Education by Numbers: The Tyranny of Testing, is published by Politico's at £19.99 (hardback)
Testing times
Warwick Mansell
  | 
25 June 2007
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Testing has had its day
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