education
physics is hard, and that's a good thing Paid Members Public
While I was away in France, the annual fracas over improved A level results broke out. Now, I know where I stand on this; I know people who work and teach in Higher Education and they’re seeing a decline in the educational quality of freshers, not an improvement. Here’
The UK's Educational Death Spiral Paid Members Public
A couple of things caught my eye in the papers over lunch *(I know, I know. Dead tree papers. How very 20th century of me.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * *The first up was this piece about the declining standard of UK graduates [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/
Good advice for the critical blogger Paid Members Public
Some excellent advice from Mysterium Tremendum [http://thinklings.org/jared/index.php?p=209&more=1&c=1]: > If you’re going to be railing against the poor state of public education, the poor quality of teachers, and the general stupidity of the average student/teacher/school
