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...Worton Organic Garden is close to Cassington village, about five miles north-west of Oxford....
...Just over eight miles south of Banbury is the 19-acre estate of Nether Worton House, a Grade II*-listed country house with medieval origins....
...“It won’t work if they can’t manage in the research-intense environment with very, very demanding students,” Mr Worton says....
...Michael Worton, vice-provost at UCL, said that the system created “two tribes”, introducing a “cliff-edge” between students attaining a 2:1 or better, and those falling below that line....
...Michael Worton, vice-provost of UCL, would like to see a return to two-year A-level courses with synoptic exams at the end....
...In Worton’s adaptation, each gets to talk at some length about what they do and don’t think, yet these words do not fill the psychological space....
...A new book, Liberating Learning, will be published in April, edited by the school’s current headmaster, Patrick Derham, and Michael Worton, vice-provost at University College London....
...This is an edited extract from ‘Liberating Learning: Widening Participation’, edited by Patrick Derham and Michael Worton, published by the University of Buckingham Press on April 21, £10 ‘High Financier...
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