His emphasis is on "cultural literacy" - certain facts, ideas and literary works that he says people need to know in order to operate effectively as citizens of the country in which they live - and learning in a highly structured way.

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Moreover, Prince (who has sold over 100 million records in a 30-year career) may know what a lot of people are still learning: In any market, it is important to either deliver abundant commodities cheaply and efficiently, or cater to high-value scarcity.

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Basil McCrea of the UUP, who chairs the education and learning committee, wanted to know why the minister thought it was fair that people from other parts of the UK should be made to pay three times the amount paid by those from Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, or other parts of the European Union.

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