Posts Tagged ‘South Lanarkshire Council’
GLOW…Statistics, statistics, and more statistics…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 26, 2011
- In: capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | LTS | teaching and learning
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Some interesting GLOW stuff came out in the wash yesterday. Andrew Brown, head honcho of GLOW (who’s been digitally rather quiet of late) when speaking at an education and technology conference in Belfast (#agendani on Twitter) fell back on statistics again, I assume, to demonstrate to our Northern Irish friends how wonderful and all-pervading, the [...]
Native linguists removed from schools..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 19, 2011
- In: Inclusion | Literacy | Leadership | Equality | change | capacity-building | future of education
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An excellent piece from Tom Shields in today’s Herald newspaper. He takes a rather witty and beautifully written series of pot-shots at Glasgow City Council Education dept for removing all foreign language assistants from their schools by remembering, somewhat fondly, his own experiences of the benefits of language assistants. The enormous benefits of having native [...]
I’ve been neglecting this blog…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: January 12, 2011
As the title of this post says, I’ve been very bad at posting recently. It’s the usual litany of excuses…flu, Christmas, more flu, kids and sheer laziness. To be honest, I’ve been taking advantage of all the extra time I’ve had now that I’m on my ‘career break’. I will be back into writing this [...]
Council in crisis- Efficiency savings mean Autism services may suffer…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 18, 2010
Lots of speculation in the press recently about impending cuts in local government spending. Education authorities are facing a call to merge so classrooms may be spared the worst of the cuts in public spending. The education forums are also getting in on the act. The following is paraphrased from a comment which appeared a [...]
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