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Ofsted plan to inspect ‘cultural capital’ in schools attacked as elitist
The inspectors’ new catchphrase shows ‘white, middle-class paternalism’ that will alienate many students, critics say A two-word term, invented in the 1970s by a French sociologist heavily influenced by Karl Marx, makes an unlikely entrance in Ofsted’s new framework [pdf] for the inspection of schools in England this week.Each institution... -
Are co-living spaces the end of urban loneliness – or cynical corporate dorms?
Offering housing and communal space, co-living developments are either a solution to the urban housing crisis or simply an attempt to cash in on itIn the industrial chic lobby of the Collective, a huge apartment block in the northwest London neighbourhood of Willesden Junction, a set of posters advertise its...