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Michael Shaw
All articles by Michael Shaw
My best teacher: Mr Perfect by Brian Cox
On National Teachers’ Day, Brian Cox remembers a head called Mr Perfect who set him on the right trajectory for his stellar career
9 May 2018
Introduce failure into the lives of our ‘fragile perfect’ students, urges grit expert
23 January 2016
Wendy Kopp: ‘Majority of Teach for America grads continue fight against social injustice’
20 May 2015
Pasi Sahlberg: ‘Those who underperform at school often become the best teachers’
17 May 2015
Schools across Europe to be rated online on how technologically advanced they are
27 September 2013
Take a free seat in the lecture hall
Teachers – and pupils – now have unprecedented access to university-level material online, but what’s out there? Michael Shaw reports
8 March 2013