Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts
Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Manners maketh man - so let's teach them

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"Manners maketh man" was one of William Horman's proverbs lovingly set out in his Vulgaria all the way back in the 16th cent...
Tuesday, 25 October 2016

Short lifetime careers (or why teaching should learn from football)

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There are a selection of careers that have a shorter lifetime than those the rest of us pursue. And these careers are often the sexy ones w...
Monday, 14 March 2016

Quote of the day - on teachers who blog and tweet

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**** A quite superb little article from Andrew Old contains this gem of a paragraph: But, of course, there are many reasons why teachers...
Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Knowledge gives power (and don't ever forget it) - a comment on criticism of Michaela Community College

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**** Michaela Community School is one of those free schools so detested by those who prefer the conformity and straightjacket of a rigidly...
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Sunday, 12 January 2014

How that teacher licensing might work out. A lesson from road transport...

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**** Dick Puddlecote usually writes about personal choice and the curse of nannying fussbucketry but every now and then he drops one in ab...
Sunday, 13 October 2013

Exploring what might make Bradford's schools better...

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**** Bradford's schools aren't very good. And haven't got noticeably better - at least in terms of outcomes - over the past de...
Tuesday, 8 October 2013

If England's schools are some of the developed world's worst, where does that put Bradford's?

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**** We are again reminded that the simple premise of throwing money at public service problems doesn't work. We've already seen w...
Tuesday, 1 May 2012

For one time only...I agree with the NUT - payment by results for teachers is a daft idea

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**** ...on teachers' performance pay. The proposals "from MPs" should the sort of appreciation of reward structures that g...
Tuesday, 24 April 2012

A glimpse of higher education's future?

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**** Time will no doubt tell but might this be a glimpse of higher education's future? There are no professors in Virginia Tech’...
Thursday, 17 November 2011

So when will universities cotton on then?

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**** Technology is changing how we learn : Live online learning technologies - such as virtual meetings and classrooms, and video-confer...
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Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Things that make me cross....

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**** A headteacher addresses the Labour conference: "In Mr Gove's eyes we are a failing school," she said. "Shame on ...
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Sunday, 6 March 2011

Seems unions are good for teachers but bad for pupils

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**** Over recent times I’ve banged on a bit about teachers unions and specifically about a feeling I had that the power and influence of...
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Saturday, 21 August 2010

Kids, parents and a few teachers have worked it out - pity the education establishment hasn't

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**** Much fuss and bother about 'A' Level results including, of course, the 'it's all fixed in favour of public schools'...