February 2016

  • Is global learning in trouble?

    Is it?  I ask because it's chief promoter, Pearson, seems to be.  The Times reports that not only is Pearson shedding 10% of its workforce (4,000 jobs, world-wide), but that it is also paying dividends by taking on more debt....

  • Googling ourselves to death

    I watched a very smooth man on TV yesterday explaining that Google pays corporation tax at 20% (like other companies in the UK), and that there had been no "sweetheart deals" with HMRC in the arrangement to pay £130m in 10 years...