http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12429152
The government has been defeated in the High Court over its decision to scrap England's school building programme ( Read more... )

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7882974/Earth-is-much-younger-than-previously-thought.html Researchers have calculated that the planet could have taken far longer to form following the birth of ( Read more... )

As is well known, all of the people on the BBC's Speke Ur Brainze discussions are nuts. However, I quite like an idea from this discussion on university funding: I would also suggest reducing fees depending on student's grades. Why should an outstanding medical student who works 9-5, with less than half the holidays to earn money, pay the same as ( Read more... )

I'm being stalked by someone. Unfortunately, it's the long-dead poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

I finally started reading/listening to The Ode Less Travelled, by Stephen Fry. ( A brief review )

A number of you will have seen this already elsewhere, but it deserves a wider audience: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0717-22.htm One way to measure the fears of people in power is by the intensity of their quest for certainty and control over knowledge ( Read more... )