My last blog was quite sore on those of my own sex who mope, whinge and generally waste their lives.
Now its time to explain why they might be like this.
Behold – the glory that is sexual equality on the BBC! Read more…
I came across a great BBC website recently that I thought I could share with you all. It’s called Headroom: Unwind Your Mind. The site contains a cleverly formatted mix of health news, stories, tests and interactive resources. For instance, there’s a section called MoodScape that allows you to create your own unique animation to reflect your mood. There is also a MoodSpa to explore your mental well-being from a number of viewpoints, such as self-esteem, social life, fitness, and anger management. Read more…
As a trainer and tutor, it’s commonplace for me to acknowledge that people learn in different ways. (These are called learning styles in the jargon.) They do this just because they are people, not robots or cogs in a bureaucratic machine. This is not a difficult concept to grasp.
Unless you’re a politician, that is.
In a heart-breaking and logic-defying article, apty titled Let’s not get personal, BBC correspondent Mike Baker has highlighted yet another government u-turn, this time in education (the usual victim when it comes to government fads and sound bites). Once, not so long ago, meddlers as mighty as Blair and then Brown recognised the fact that ‘children learn in different ways, at variable speeds, and in response to different teaching styles’, several decades following many psychologists. Therefore modern teaching methods should follow suit.
Not so. Read more…
