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Bridgepoint gives us pointers on how to prepare for the Common Entrance Exam! - Sassy Mama
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Literature – Will Orr-Ewing
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Austin Henderson, quoted in chapter 4 of. Software Design and Usability. Klaus Kaasgaard): ‘Beyond Formalisms: The Art and Science of Designing Pliant Systems’. Link via David Smith. Literary historians get excited about the margins from writers’ own book collections – and rightly so. Geoff Dyer is surely right that the most interesting critics are writers themselves:. It’s part of GD’s wider criticisms of academia, which reach a frothy rant in Out of Sheer Rage. 8216;s on her copy of The Great Gatsby.
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Some Press on Soup-Eating – Will Orr-Ewing
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Some Press on Soup-Eating. I should have posted these clippings sooner. I came out strongly in the press against the sorts of myths (inc soup-eating) being sold to parents about how to survive in a UK independent school. Here we are in The Telegraph. Here in The Times. And here in The Voice of Russia. October 22, 2014. The moral training of young children. Eton – after a socialist revolution. London, United Kingdom. What I do Keystone Tutors. What I do dysTalk. Education – Purpose. About 1 week ago.
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Uncategorized – Will Orr-Ewing
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2012 has seen two substantial – and completely unanticipated – bits of press. 1) An article I wrote for the Evening Standard. Made the front page! 2) I went up against (or, as it turned out, with) Paxman on Newsnight. Video below…. April 10, 2012. March 6, 2014. Sir Ken Robinson – Do Schools Kill Creativity? As soon as a friend or acquaintance becomes interested in education, it is not long before they send me Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk: Do Schools Kill Creativity? 1 The ‘Unpredictability’ Argument.
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Tutoring – Will Orr-Ewing
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Tutoring: A fresh debate. I’ve just finished an article on tuition, and am boldly looking for a publisher! I thought I’d share it here:. Tutoring: a fresh debate. So: do children (or some children) learn better as a result of a one-on-one tutoring? What sort of learning goes on one-on-one? Continue reading “Tutoring: A fresh debate”. October 20, 2009. January 16, 2010. London, United Kingdom. What I do Keystone Tutors. What I do dysTalk. Education – Purpose. Impact of computer games / internet. Rich, wel...
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Web 2.0 – Will Orr-Ewing
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Category: Web 2.0. David Miliband grows and grows in my estimation. First there was the interview. With the FT; now, I’ve just come across this speech thanks to David Smith’s blog:. To quote David Smith’s post in full:. In two recent speeches, UK politicians are beginning to show they understand the web. First, George Osborne. And now, David Miliband. Technorati Tags: David Miliband. June 25, 2008. The awakening of my e-consciousness. He’s also ex-tutor to friend and all-round hero, Ed Cooke. I founded K...
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Education Politics (UK) – Will Orr-Ewing
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Category: Education Politics (UK). Michael Gove in 5 minutes. I was asked by a friend to give him a quick summary of Michael Gove’s policies. Here it is:. Free Schools most important and other systemic changes. Gove has made it possible for any primary or secondary school to become an academy. There has been HUGE take up, despite what the unions were warning. Academy status means:. More freedom from the LEA over staffing: hours, holidays, pensions, salaries. Reading tests at six. Return to synthetic phon...
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