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Black hole in Tory education policy

Murray Rowlands urges Labour to take the Conservatives to task over glaring omissions and contradictions in their strategy for schools YOU have to hand it to Michael Gove, the Tory spokesmen on children, schools and families. He makes a renaissance man look like a part-time dabbler. Turn on the television or radio news and he will often be seen and heard

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School killed Confidence and Creativity ? by Mathia Lee

Loved this article so much by Mathia Lee that I have to reproduce it for all to see. Because it is an issue that really touches my heart. The education system in Singapore, where we groom our future citizens (& PRs, & foreign scholarship holders who study for free) is seriously wrong.

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Online video lessons with Brightstorm.

Not too long ago I posted about starting to learn how to play guitar on my own. Instead of learning from books I decided to learn from videos because it was a lot easier to understand and less boring

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Seductive orientalism:English education and modern science in colonial India(2008)

  Social Scientist, 36:45-63, 2008 Prof. S.C. Mishra Memorial Lecture , 68th Indian History Congress, Delhi, 28 Dec. 2007   Seductive orientalism: English education and modern science in colonial India   Rajesh Kochhar Professor of Pharmaceutical Heritage, NIPER1 Mohali160062, Former Director, NISTADS2, New Delhi 1 National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research 2 National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (CSIR) rkochhar2000@gmail.com   Friends

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J.C. Bose in a historical perspective (2005)

Paper read at the workshop on “J.C. Bose and Today”at  the 28th General Assembly of International Union of Radio Science, New Delhi,23 October 2005   The pioneering scientist who would not patent: J.C. Bose in a historical perspective   Rajesh Kochhar NISTADS: National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies, K.S

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Is it really about the baking Rachel?

Rachel Allen: Bake! Image via Wikipedia “Oh no, that programme’s terrible,” uttered one of the twins as we settled down in front of the fire for an evening of family telly. On screen, Rachel Allen, doyenne of Irish culinary television, was strutting her Nigela-esque stuff, showing the nation how to blind bake the quintessentially perfect pastry case

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20. Go ahead and demonstrate, Hisham tells Dong Jiao Zong

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Americans earn failing grade on American history, economics

By Chris Stevens “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free… it expects what never was and never will be.”  —Thomas Jefferson I doubt this comes as much of a surprise, but according to the new Report on Civic Literacy by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, there is an epidemic of historical, political and economic ignorance in America. More than 2,500 randomly selected Americans took the institute’s basic 33 question test on civic literacy and 71 percent failed, with an overall average

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Where Do We Go From Here? Taking Action After the Mumbai Attacks

Taylor Jacobson, December 8 When ten terrorists attacked Mumbai on November 26, they chose to murder.

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e-learning more user friendly than classroom teaching

Washington, Dec 10 (IANS) e-learning is more user-friendly than classroom teaching and is equally a shared endeavour. Caroline Haythornthwaite, professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois (U-I), said the value …

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