How a restaurant that does not exist became London Trip Adviser's number one and other news and views

I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor - Vice
TripAdvisor’s top-rated London eatery is an old shed. Its owner posted fake food photos and glowing (false) reviews for The Shed at Dulwich, which never existed.
If Damian Green lied about looking at porn, I don’t blame him one bit - The Spectator
The berserk climate in which we live now leaves anyone facing this sort of charge no option
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks face US election probes - The New Daily

“We have to acknowledge that Trump could be re-elected”: my interview with Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook - Lord Ashcroft Polls

Educational Opportunity For All - OECD Children, students and adults from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds receive too little support to succeed in school and in learning opportunities later in life.
OECD data shows that social background, in particular parental educational background, plays a significant role in influencing children’s opportunities. On average, in OECD countries, children with lower-educated parents have just a 15% chance of attaining tertiary education, whereas, they are four times more likely (63%) to finish university if at least one of their parents has attained tertiary education. Children with better-educated parents are six times less likely to drop out at lower secondary level or before, compared to students whose parents have a lower educational background.

To help ensure societies are more inclusive, governments should support education for life and throughout people’s lives. To create an equitable lifelong learning system, equity must be made an explicit priority, says the report, with progress rewarded systematically through monitoring and evaluations. Goals for reducing inequality in education should be set at local and national levels in schools and classrooms, and the best principals and teachers attracted to work in disadvantaged schools.

Investment in good quality early childhood education and care is needed, especially for children from poorer families. Family and community-based support and programmes can help, as well as targeted support for low performing students from disadvantaged backgrounds and schools.

To help all adults do well in today’s changing world of work, governments, employers and local communities should pool their efforts to offer adult learning programmes that focus on employability, through a combination of education, training and practical job training. Support should be targeted to the most vulnerable in society.
Will abuse commission be another damp squib? - Eureka Street

Institutions feel confident that most survivors of abuse don't sue, and most victims can't afford to. And in reality, no apology nor even bigly compensation can take away the pain or fix the damage done to a child when they were very young. What happened to so many of these children, much of the time, deformed their spirit. As an adult, a victim of sexual violence, humiliation and pain as a child shapes his or her life around great pits and scars of these experiences and the memories of confusion, shame and retribution.

The cause of the misuse of power over children was our refusal to take a child's world view as seriously as our own adult priorities.

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