August 2011

  • This is just the time for sound-bites

    When the saintly Tony Blair said  "Although now is not the time for sound-bites, I can feel the hand of history on my shoulder ..." (or somesuch), I fear that I must have cringed and groaned, probably in equal measure....

  • A citizenship education on the streets

    Those parents who seemingly took their young children onto the streets to see looting in action must take a dim view of the citizenship education they're getting in schools.  Perhaps they thought that some sort of balance was necessary.  Meanwhile,...

  • The Great, the Good – and Tim Oates

    An early rise recently to get to Stoke on Trent on time to attend a conference at Keele University's Centre for Successful Schools.  The focus was The Curriculum: lessons to be learned? It was an unremittingly old fashioned series of...

  • New Journal Opportunities

    Publishers are always on the lookout for new journal niches, ever eager to part universities and academics from their ready money.  Browsing at the wonderful Art in Action festival recently, I stumbled upon a proposal for project of unfinished projects...

  • Untidy Britain

    It seems that Waste Watch and Keep Britain Tidy are to merge (although you'd be hard pressed to know this from looking at their web sites this morning).  Speculation has been rife about the new organisation's name, with the hot...