Britain halfway to triple-dip recession as manufacturing sector stalls | Business | guardian.co.uk. There is no alternative?
Read more →BBC News – A-level plans challenged by school and university heads. Not Gove’s finest hour – I would love to know where he gets these ideas from. They can’t just be from the back of an envelope, or emerging from his dim memories of the plush private sixth-form he attended, can they?
Read more →BBC News – GCSE grade changes ‘affected 10,000 students’. My dad always says you should go for the ‘cock-up’ explanation, rather than the conspiracy. However, to me this looks increasingly like a plan to de-value the state – school brand, finish off the process of making all schools into ‘academies’, and thereby move along...
Read more →GCSE results: headteacher attacks Michael Gove over marking butchery | Education | The Guardian. “Grade boundaries can change from exam series to exam series. Decisions on grade boundaries are made after the assessments have been taken, based on all the available evidence. In the summer, more information was available about performance across the...
Read more →Woah, this looks good.
Read more →On the front of the spring edition of all-members Liberal Democrat News. But this one is even more disturbing. Looks like I’m in the wrong party.
Read more →Whilst many of the other exampes on www.mydavidcameron.com make one titter, this example is a stroke of genius. The choice of picture alone is worth a million quid, pre-international exhange rate fluctuation quids too. The caption is great, but it’s not until you read the tag line that you realise that you have witnessed...
Read more →http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8423043.stm Look, I’ve never been in this position, and I don’t know how I would react if this happened to me, but I’m damn sure that I don’t want to live in a country where people can be chased into the street and beaten by members of the public, no matter what those people...
Read more →It’s Wednesday, so my O.H. is out on the lash. I am at home, tidying up and balling socks, as usual. Whilst making piles of dark, sports, hiking, stripey and too-holey-to-wear-anymore I’ve been listening to a really good podcast (from the University of Bath public lecture podcast series) on the relationship between academics and...
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