government officials and ministers involved, have already shown a lack of foresight and judgment…
From a 1947 speech by British former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, some excerpts that seem relevant to Japan today: In our immense administrative difficulty, the Prime Minister and his colleagues should have concentrated upon their immediate practical tasks, and left the fulfillment of party ambition and the satisfaction of party appetites, at least until we… [...]
Initial London riots / UK riots – Google マップ
At-a-glance map of where the rioting is in London. Tho it’s been superceded, apparently, see the links below. M/T to Ryuichi Kino. Initial London riots / UK riotsVerified affected areas from Saturday 6 August until 06:00 Tuesday 9 August.http://james.cridland.net/blog/mapping-the-riots/T HIS IS NO LONGER BEING UPDATED. A continually updated map of verified incidents is being run [...]
The Teens’ speech – UK teens get uplugged, raw and real
Image via CrunchBase Zemanta is a blog plugin that supplies a list of online articles related to the content of one’s blog entry. About one minute after starting to write this blog entry, Zemanta should have enough input to work on and start making suggestions (it also suggests photos). One of Zemanta’s suggested articles was [...]
“The students will not tolerate the teacher having power in the classroom”
This is a reply to a comment kindly left by OldAndrew of Scenes from the Battleground blog, which was a reply to this blog entry. I originally just replied to OldAndrew’s comment in a comment, but my reply got too long for a comment. if students object to the very idea of the teacher being [...]
Scenes from the Battleground – a secondary school teacher reveals the horrors of British classrooms
Image via Wikipedia I’ve just spent the last few hours reading the Scenes from the Battleground blog. Andrew Old is old-school: a believer in teaching facts and knowledge, in the importance of effective discipline, and he does not believe in progressive education. He writes well, with zest and humour. Here’s a good example: someone sent [...]
Work till you drop… it’ll stave off Alzheimer’s!
Image via Wikipedia Well, well. First we get this reminder from the Telegraph (reminding us of who is really working for whom) and then barely two weeks later, this from the BBC: Keeping the brain active by working later in life may be an effective way to ward off Alzheimer’s disease, research suggests. There’s a [...]
University students, part-time jobs, and talking about Japan in English
Last Student Loan Originally uploaded by here_for_now In my basic EFL Writing class last week, students created simple questionnaires, then asked each other, collated the results and made a brief report. A couple of students chose part-time jobs as their topic.They then posted their reports on their blogs. One of the purposes of having students [...]
British news: migration
“It’s been too easy to get into this country in the past and it’s going to get harder,” said a UK immigration minister, according to this BBC news article. The article contains a link to an interesting map showing “total numbers of Eastern European migrants in each local authority who registered for work between May [...]
