I feel very strongly about this as it would mean no more funding for exactly the support Spidermonkey is looking forward to getting next year. (In fact, he's OK as the changes would come in for the year after him.) Please sign if you agree.http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/

This is so spot on that I went to listen again and transcribe it.
One of the problems is that we have poured so much time into trying to make sure that children look as though they're achieving more that we've not been prepared to say how do children actually learn?  And one of the answers in that you have to enthuse them for their learning.  You ( Read more... )

I'll mostly be spending today quietly getting on with marking and a tutorial this evening.  But in between those things, I shall think about the things a more sensibly run country might do with £10 million and I'll do what I can to repair her legacy in my own small way:

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I see no reason to celebrate the death of a senile old lady.

I would love to celebrate the death of Thatcherism, as opposed to Thatcher, but we've had a decade of a Labour party too scared to challenge the notion that profit is the only value worth measuring, and now Cameron (and Wossname) taxing bedrooms, privatising the NHS and destroying equal ( Read more... )

Thought I'd post this because the monkey family has been close to the sharp end and reports in the media don't seem to make things clear.  I have no personal axe to grind because Spider managed to pass even with all the problems this year, so he's alright Jack and off to do Science A-Levels.  (In fact, he did great.  Yay! Spider! \o/\o/\o/)  But ( Read more... )

Have you read the customer reviews for policeman wenlock on amazon?  Just brilliant.

Thanks to darth_hamster for pointing me at them.

Look at the tags too.

One downside of the Great Monkey Migration to Girton is that our MP is now Andrew Lansley. (At least it means we should have an NHS candidate to vote for come election time.)

Now I've learned that our (Conservative) District Councillor is a Mr. Bygott.

Why yes, I did google him. It's EMA marking week, after all.

Seems I'm not the first to snigger at ( Read more... )

If you haven't signed the petition to save the NHS, you can click here and do it now. Takes about 3 seconds.

You can sign up here for a rally in London or a virtual rally online, both on March 7th.

I've gone for the virtual one though I might make it to London in the unlikely event that work, house and school stuff is all quietish at that point.

Petition against Open University cuts

Please go sign.

If you've already signed the old one, this is a new one.  The idea is to get a debate in parliament, which needs 100,000 signatures...