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Aug 2019
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Melissa Benn and Ed Miliband: Life Lesso...

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In Life Lessons (Verso) Melissa Benn explores how we need to rethink education for life. As more and more of us live and work longer than ever before, a National Education Service should, like the NHS, be the framework that ensures a life-long...

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