Keep Big Brother out of the classroom says union
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The new president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) will warn of an impending Orwellian education system at the first day of the union’s annual conference in Torquay today.Targets, testing, league tables, inspections and increasing use of camera surveillance in classrooms could lead to “Big Brother watching over schools in the next five [...]
Notebook
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More support for Estelle Morris’s complaint, reported in this column last week, that the government has to be seen to be doing something, whether or not it works. Among the 180 people at the recent Anti Academies Alliance conference, Notebook spotted the former health secretary, and now anti-academy campaigner in his Camden constituency, Frank Dobson, [...]
Staff are being patronised and put through hoops
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Ty Goddard is startlingly outspoken for a man who regularly enters the lairs of protocol-driven Whitehall mandarins. Maybe years of pushing through radical change in a series of public and voluntary sector jobs has made him too impatient to bother tiptoeing around fragile civil-service egos. Maybe he’s always called a badly made spade a botched [...]
Clash of cultures
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When Keele lecturers demonstrate outside their council meeting on Thursday for the second time this year - this time swelled by lecturers from other universities - it will be about much more than saving the jobs of their colleagues.University proposals mean that 38 of the 67 academic staff at the School of Economic and Management [...]
Arts education described as vital: State work force needs creativity
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Wisconsin needs to cultivate an innovative, entrepreneurial work force, and arts education is the key, Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton said Friday.
A new task force on arts and creativity, co-chaired by Lawton and state schools Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster, plans to survey arts offerings in Wisconsin schools, hold public hearings around the state, and issue a list [...]
Tipp Technology Park forges links with top Cork business people
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Shannon Development organised a special business function for top Cork based companies and management representatives from banking, accounting, legal and venture capital companies. The event was designed to forge new business contacts for Tipperary Technology Park and Shannon Development?s four other Knowledge Network business locations around the Shannon Region. Kevin Thompsto
Shannon Development organised a special [...]
Labours pledge on university numbers in 2010 is doomed to fail
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A pledge by Labour to have half of young adults in university by 2010 is
destined to fail, with new figures showing that the proportion has scarcely
risen over the past eight years.
Despite the Government throwing hundreds of millions of pounds at widening
university access and expanding degree courses, figures for the past
academic year showed the proportion of [...]
How a routine home refurbishment can generate serious profits
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Have you ever %26ldquo;done up your home to put it on the market, then realised that had you tackled those little maintenance jobs years ago, your life would have been far nicer? If so, you will have experienced a sliver of the regret felt by the film producer Leslee Udwin while recently sprucing up her [...]
Exeter West Greenwich teachers sharpen their stand in dispute
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The Exeter-West Greenwich Education Association, whose members have been working without a contract for six months, recently took out an advertisement in The Providence Journal proclaiming that they are “highly qualified†and “dedicated, committed teachers†working in “high performing schools.â€
The ad was published a week ago in the Journal’s West Bay edition, a few weeks [...]
An Enlightening Trip to the Countryside
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I have an advantage working as the vice president for government relations at a large state university. Actually, four advantages. I have an ego-enhancing high profile in my local community and among a certain group of people at the state level. I have access to a number of pots of money that can be used [...]
