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British Academy creates new 'oracy'
fellowship
to investigate levelling up through talk
British Academy creates
new'oracy' fellowship
to
investigate levelling up
through talk
FUNDING
Speech matters: what they say; how they say it;, can
determine a young person's future: And yet 'oracy;
as it is called, is not on the curriculum in England
and this critical life skill is often determined by
family background and school type:
But, it is considered s0 important to
Levelling-up
life chances,that the British
Academy has funded
new Innovation Fellowship in oracy: Oxfords Dr
Arlene Holmes-Henderson,
classical scholar; who
would like to see rhetoric lessons in schools to