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Education: Five years in the future...

SecEd’s regular teaching and learning expert Phil Parker is moving on to pastures new. In his final column for us, he time travels into the future to see what has become of our schools...

 

The timing is ironic. The University of Birmingham, just down the road from me, is investigating the nature of time. It is a major study involving academics in America, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey and Australia. Physicists talk about “closed time-like curves” where time travel won’t involve blue police boxes but might use portals that act as gateways to a specific location.

Why ironic then? Well, this is my last article for SecEd and I have struggled to find material that was apposite. So when I read about this study on time it reminded me of the portal that exists at my local. Oh, the gaps in time I’ve encountered there...

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