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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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 […]
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, 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 […]
It has come to our attention that the outdated and counterproductive managerialism found in schools shows no sign of crawling back under the rock that it came from.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. […]
Interesting to note that Michael Gove will be the next Education Secretary in the UK. A fine party member he may be but he most certainly didn’t go to a state school – although his bio conveniently said he did at one point – and isn’t a former teacher – he’s a journo – so […]
Pretend to listen and they shall not kick up a fuss: http://hereview.independent.gov.uk/hereview/ What a joke! Lord Browne-nose, how about explaining why students whose parents have paid taxes all their lives now face fronting up more cash so their kid can go to university? And how about explaining why kids with high grades should pay fees […]
To the TUC, teachers work the most hours of any profession and a significant proportion of that being unpaid OT. It is then worrying to note the latest research on the effects of OT published on the BBC News website. Working 10 to 11 hour days increases your risk of heart failure by two-thirds. Recruitment […]
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