Something is destroying British education, says former Chief Inspector of Schools
Image via Wikipedia Chris Woodhead, a man many teachers loved to hate when he was Chief Inspector of Schools under the Conservative and then Labour governments, 1994-2000, has written a book in which he expresses his views about British education. An excerpt was published in the Times (online), May 10, 2009. Fifty years ago the [...]
When is a dangerous drug not a dangerous drug?
The Cough —-not Strawberry Cough Originally uploaded by BodhiSativa Photography Judging from this BBC report about the possible downgrading of the drug ‘ecstasy’, the answer would appear to be “when the British government puts it in the ‘dangerous’ category”. Over the past few months in Japan, there have been a number of cases of young [...]
Serendipity
I made the mistake of checking my email first thing this morning, breaking rule #2 of Tim Ferriss’ list of 9 things Not To Do. However, thanks to this temporary transgression, I learned about a remarkable fellow Brit I had never heard of. In my iGoogle was a new entry by James Atherton at Recent [...]
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 [...]
Is evolution a fact or a theory?
School Gate is a (UK) Times Online blog about schools and schooling in Britain. I read it to keep abreast of what is going on in British education. Today’s entry is This Science expert says that children should be taught creationism at school The comments are particularly interesting and mostly well informed, but even more [...]
