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ERRR #055. Rachel Macfarlane on knowledge, learning power, and character

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Obstetrics for Schools: Eliminating Failure and Ensuring the Safe Delivery of All Learners

The title for that book for Listen is Obstetrics for Schools, Eliminating Failure and Ensuring the Safe Delivery of All Learners. I got thinking about failure rates within medicine and particularly thinking about safe delivery of children. So if you were running an obstetrics ward looking at safe delivery of babies in a hospital and you had a situation where approximately a third of new births resulted in failure,. that would be an absolutely catastrophic international scandal. And yet we have a situation in education, certainly in the UK, where that just almost seems to be accepted as normal and natural in this sort of endemic. We should be targeting our support proportionally to make sure that we eliminate failure as much as

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