Posts Tagged ‘Schools’
My wish-list….number 4
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 25, 2011
This wish is one that, admittedly, I’ve had to be convinced about by discussions and reading over the course of the past year now, and it’s for better IT infrastructure for schools. And as my previous three wishes have (at least over an extended life) leant towards a cost-neutral situation, or have even offered some [...]
Emotional education and society..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 1, 2011
Judging by what we read in the papers at the moment, Scotland is not a great place to be growing up in at the moment. Drinking, drugs, and dangerous sexual activity are endemic in our society. Knife and gun crime is the norm amongst many children who roam the streets in feral gangs without a [...]
Subject specialism and secondary teachers – a status symbol too far?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 24, 2008
Do secondary teachers themselves actually increase the barriers between subject areas rather than working to break them down ? Is there still too much of the subject specialist’ culture in our schools? Now I actually remember quite a bit from my days at Teacher Training College and one of these pearls of wisdom was [...]
Helsinki haute cuisine !
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 6, 2008
I have the evening to acclimatize before starting my programme of visits tomorrow so I thought I’d take the chance to do a little bit of exploring. Its a very strange feeling, being here, alone, in a strange city, and it suddenly struck me as I looked at bus and train timetables whilst finding out how to [...]
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