Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Rummaging in the cyber past

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I retired over 11 years ago. After all these years of teaching English I found I was missing the discipline of writing - for when I set ...
Wednesday, September 02, 2015

The Education debate - a builder's take

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I was chatting to our builder yesterday about schools. It seemed to me that this successful tradesman, running the building firm that he inh...
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Sunday, December 14, 2014

A letter to Jim Murphy MP

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The following open letter from me to Jim Murphy, newly-elected leader of The Labour Party in Scotland, appeared in today's Sunday Herald...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Teacher training - some questions

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I keep getting into conversations about education these days. What's the matter with me? I've obviously fallen into lassitude to be ...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Testing the teacher

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Staving off the tedium of cough-recovery inactivity, I was ploughing through yesterday's Sunday Times when I came across a piece about t...
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Saturday, January 07, 2012

Visceral learning

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It's almost the end of the school holidays, and the thoughts of even this retired teacher turn, once more, to education. Is it my coming...
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Friday, June 17, 2011

Twittering respectably

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I've been catching up on some old friends' blogs - you can thank the weather for that, chaps! - and came across this post from Neil...
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Monday, May 09, 2011

The Revolution: a traditional English teacher’s take.

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It's that time of the year - exam time, when suddenly the seniors have vanished and the tired teacher has time to reflect but finds she ...
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Moving swiftly on: parenting and education

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Considering my own childhood - and I realise it must seem odd to many - led me inexorably to think about my own role as a parent trying to e...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

The parental role in education

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The radio was on this morning, wittering away in the background, when I caught a few sentences and realised that Call Kay  was inviting us t...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Loud twittering

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Is Twitter the big thing these days, then? Yesterday a media job was advertised through Twitter and the applicant twittering about his succ...
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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Back to school

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Tower housing stairs Originally uploaded by goforchris . Spent the later part of this afternoon indulging in some nostalgia with a ...
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