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The Best Internship Ever?
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This past summer Sierra Club offered the chance to apply to the Best Internship on Earth, a position that is a cross between film maker and nature enthusiast. This year Evan Geary was chosen for this new and coveted internship, beating out hundreds of other highly qualified applicants with his winning submission video. [...]
Free market & hope
The announcement of a new private university in the UK doesn’t come as much surprise.
Any government, especially a coalition, will shirk responsibility for its decisions when it can lest it be saddled with something that it can’t shift come coalition-meltdown and fresh elections.
The tired mantra of the free market is a trusty friend at such [...]
Can’t pay, won’t pay!
Given that not one single person among Lord Browne-nose’s Comedy Tuition Fees Review, the Blue Rinsers or the Yellows is currently brave enough to actually make an announcement regarding the issues of student finance in the future, it’s surprising that the media have been so kind.
If we were current or future students, we’d be a [...]
BBC News Headline Writing
According to the Beeb, ‘British citizenship tests: One in three immigrants fail’.
Well, actually, no. One in three immigrants WHO TOOK THE TEST failed. That is very different to saying 1 in 3 of ALL immigrants failed the test as the Beeb headline implies.
We’re not saying that’s intentional but an emotive subject such as [...]
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…but the real issues don’t go away.
Academies, radicalism, what else? Ah yes, freedom.
The Gove-nor doesn’t get it. They never do. Balls-Up was no different. It isn’t managerial tinkering that the Education system needs. ‘Wearing a new tie doesn’t a new man make’.
The Education system needs leaving alone. Now that would be truly radical. An Education system run by educators [...]
With the Russell Group and other selfish and ungrateful universities continue to persuade the Government that charging students more is the only way to maintain the UK’s competiveness in research, future students must be thinking that all is lost.
Despite the fact that all the middle-aged people working at UK universitities didn’t pay a penny towards [...]
Oxbridge Male & White Mafia
It has been revealed that two-thirds of the new UK cabinet went to Oxbridge.
As concerning is the fact that only 4 of the 23 are women. There is also only 1 from an ethnic minority. And how many of them went to private, fee-paying schools?
In the UK, social difference is something to be [...]
ROKTalk
ROKTalk, the text-to-speech service for websites designed to ‘make websites talk’ through converting written text on websites into real-time, real voice, audible speech, has today announced it is to gift the service to up to 5,000 primary and secondary schools across the UK this year through it’s not-for-profit organization, The ROK Foundation.
There are approximately 30,000 [...]
Constructive Dismissal in Education: a guide
It has come to our attention that the outdated and counterproductive managerialism found in schools shows no sign of crawling back under the rock that it came from.
This dogmatic and wholly unedifying way to treat fellow human beings is at the heart of the peculiarly sickening manner in which ‘efficiencies’ are made in education. Doing [...]