Stephen Powell, thoughts mostly about learning

This BBC report on Gordon Brown’s focus for secondary education explains…
England’s secondary curriculum is being overhauled to “focus on getting the basics right”, the government says.”
Subjects such as personal finance and cookery are likely to be included - plus languages like Mandarin and Urdu.
Anne Kiem, a commentator from the Institute of Financial Services School of [...]

This music video comes with a warning as the lyrics contain a lot of colourful and potentially offensive language. However, if you have ever suffered the worst excesses of public transport in either London or Wellington and all points inbetween you will understand frustration of the songwriters…
I don’t agree with many of [...]