Back to the future;Diary

Tes Editorial

23rd April 1999 at 1:00am

MILLENNIUM compliance remains a dream elsewhere. With brutal, if unwitting, honesty, DFEE magazine Spectrum reveals that the new local government White Paper sets out how public services "can be modernised for the 20th century". Performance-related pay clearly isn't Labour's only Victorian policy...

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