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How would aliens view our further education system?

This is a class like no class I have ever taught or been taught in. For a start, it consists of only four people – three students and their teacher – sat together round a table.

Anyone seen the smoke? It’s true there’s been a little blaze, but the recent torching of the education technology agency Becta and the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency is hardly the “bonfire of the quangos” promised by the Tories when they were in opposition.

Let me say right at the outset that this column has nothing to do with further education. It’s about bread.