The uk will be doing a lot better when so many of us don’t confuse being clever (and I am all for being clever) with being a posh boy in a suit sprinkling latin. (I am all for Latin too, but not the sprinkled variety!)
Have I just heard right? Did Gavin Williamson say THE PURPOSE of education was to get a job? Now I dont think any of us in higher ed aim to turn out cohorts of the unemployable.. but THE PURPOSE???
If you are curious about Boris Johnson's reference to Cincinnatus in his goodbye speech - he was a 5th century BC Roman politician who saved the state from an invasion, then - job done - returned to his farm ('to his plough'). He was also an enemy of the people.
Let’s face it. Party-gate is not really a matter of who consumed what when. It is about INTEGRITY (or not) and a wider culture of entitlement at the “top”.I was waiting to see how Gray reported on that. This last development leaves a very nasty taste indeed.
thanks all. I'm hugely pleased to have been made Dame. sure there are things I worry about (empire? ), and I expect a twitter torrent; but i am still pleased that studying classical civilisation can make you Dame. Happy. It's an honour for all who explore the ancient world
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Thanks for all your good wishes re my retirement present. Let add that my old supervisor John Crook 40+ years ago gave me the money to get my PhD thesis typed. I asked how to pay him back. 'Do it for for someone else one day!' he replied.
My husband just observed, as I am sure others have, that if the govt hadnt been so keen to get rid of coursework from school exams, the graders might have had more to go on this year.
When a guy who wants to build a bridge between Britain and Ireland calls a universal broadband scheme “crazed”, it is hard to know what his standards of “sanity” are.
There is something terribly depressing (and revealingly symbolic) about a load of (mostly) posh hardline men turning up at Chequers in their (mostly) posh cars to "sort Brexit". I fear it says it all.
