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Children are failing to pick up traditional values at school as teachers increasingly prioritise exam results over the development of character.
It has been claimed that the sheer demands placed on timetables are leaving schools with little opportunity to promote resilience, optimism, courage, generosity, empathy and good manners.
Anthony Seldon, the Master of Wellington College, Berkshire, said old-fashioned values were traditionally passed on to pupils through competitive sport, artistic performances and voluntary work in the local community.
But he warned that this was being lost in many schools because of the headlong pursuit of exam results to climb league tables and hit targets.
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28 April 2014
As noted in an earlier blog, there was no 'Save As' in Mac OSX Lion. Now 'Save As' has made a quiet, unannounced return in Mountain Lion. You can access the command by holding the alt key when you click on 'File' or as a keyboard shortcut: cmd-shift-alt-S
28 April 2014
The decisions we make and even the memories we hold are based on delusions.
A new book by David McRaney, You Are Not So Smart, consists of 48 short chapters on the assorted ways that we mislead ourselves every day.
The central theme is that you are the unreliable narrator in the story of your life. And this is because you're unaware of how unaware you are. It's fun to go through legitimate scientific research and pull out all of the examples that show how everyone, no matter how smart or educated or experienced, is radically self-deluded in predictable and quantifiable ways.
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28 April 2014
The Russell Group which represents 24 leading universities has published a guide called Informed Choices which lists subjects which are those most commonly required for entry to our leading universities. These are:
- Maths and further maths
- Physics
- Biology
- Chemistry
- History
- Geography
- Modern and classical languages
- English Literature
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28 April 2014
Google has hired the man who showed how to make computers learn much like the human brain.
His name is Geoffrey Hinton, and on Tuesday, Google said that it had hired him along with two of his University of Toronto graduate students ? Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever. Their job: to help Google make sense of the growing mountains of data it is indexing and to improve products that already use machine learning ? products such as Android voice search.
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28 April 2014
The International Baccalaureate is gaining such respect that some universities have lowered their entry requirements for IB students.
The IB is still a minority path in Britain, but for its supporters it offers the complete education. One of the IB's biggest attractions is that it requires breadth of study. A-level students will typically take three or four subjects, while for the IB diploma they take six, three at standard level and three at higher.
But it is more than just two or three extras. At IB, students take a range of subjects including maths, English, a science, a foreign language and a humanities subject.
Source: Daily Telegraph
28 April 2014
From 26 May 2011, websites must obtain the informed consent of visitors before cookies are installed. The only exception are cookies that are 'strictly necessary' for a service requested by the user
27 April 2014
Facebook can remove your page without warning, explanation or recourse. This happened to SiteSell, but they got their page pack and recorded how they did it.
27 April 2014
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