All Hail West Texas may be the quintessential Mountain Goats album. An expanded reissue of a 2002 release, it was the last in their classic lo-fi style, featuring just head Goat John Darnielle making one-take recordings onto a broken boombox. The chief virtue is the immediacy that courses through tracks like “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton” and “Fall of the Star High School Running Back”. Darnielle's tableaux of Texas characters like the piratical “Jenny” and the drifter of “Distant Stations” are sketched with skill.

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Corporate social responsibility is now being encouraged by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Teenagers should be told to drop the idea that a traditional three-year university degree course is the only route to a top job, Britain’s businesses warn today.

Durand Academy says it still intends to submit proposals for a sixth-form block at a later stage

People have more control over their feelings than is often realised, he believed

Language was devised 125 years ago, but to be fair it has had an up and down history

Numbers reveal 200 excluded for assaulting an adult and 120 for assaulting a classmate

The Archbishop of Canterbury declared that he does not want to live in a “monocultural” society as he condemned “unacceptable” and “inexcusable” attacks on Muslims over recent weeks.

Number of families who provide a false address for their children soars

Why have we got ourselves into the silly position of thinking that every teacher has to be bought a present at the end of every school year?

Love lessons in a strictly minor key

Nick Clegg denied that plans to test five-year-olds and rank primary school pupils would turn the education system into an “exam sausage factory”.

Experience shows you should not underestimate the extent to which the accountability system encourages teachers to act in certain ways