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Has Williamson gone for good?
Teacher ROBERT POOLE reflects on the top 10 ‘greatest hits ’of the erstwhile education secretary
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson

DURING the last weeks of the summer holidays that familiar feeling of dread starts setting in.

The back-to-school adverts are up in the shops and I’m resisting temptation to check my work emails.

I start counting down the days of my holidays I have left and start to panic that I have wasted my precious time.

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