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The Unimportance of Being a Paper-Based Writer

Posted by Editors EdReform, FE, In The News Friday, September 21st, 2007

We at EducationState have started the new academic year with all the enthusiasm of the last but still face one wrongly-held belief after another. Take Literacy. Why can’t the powers that be understand that in today’s economy higher-level paper-based skills are not as crucial in the world of work as keyboard-based ones? Clearly, a well-structured […]

Qualificationitis

Posted by Editors EdReform, In The News Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Has the world gone stark-raving or are we addicted to certificates? How many exams do you need? There is a vast difference between quals for technical subjects like plumbing which are objectively assessed (you can either fit a pipe or you can’t and when the water flows through it you either get wet or you […]

The Unimportance of Being a Paper-Based Writer

Qualificationitis

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