The forthcoming Labour Party conference (possibly) and the results of the five tests next year (certainly) should clear things up.

ECONOMIST: The euro

They measured risk two ways, by trailing five-year volatility and beta, and got consistent results.

FORBES: Study Turns Risk/Reward Relationship On Its Head

Results for the first five months of this year have been an improvement on last.

ECONOMIST: Germany's Landesbanks

But because it involves tracking each year group of pupils, it has taken five years to produce the first results.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | How 'value added' works

But if, as at the Academy I visited in Lewisham, good GCSE results doubled in a year, and a school once under-subscribed, now five times over-subscribed, how is that a denial of public service values?

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