At least, teachers’ unions are aiming to differ:
Almost 9 in 10 parents say their children will go back to school in the new term, ONS reveals
There was a comment here that now is the time to fire all the teachers, derecognise the unions and then rehire those actually desired and those only.
There’s merit in that.
If you’ve been out in the working world for a while—and you should be if you are going after an MBA—returning to the classroom can be an adjustment. This is a critical juncture in your career, and it’s important that you hit the ground running and get as much out of the program as you can.
There are a few routes for funding an MBA. Your employer might contribute toward the costs, or you may have savings. Ideally, you’ll be able to focus entirely on school without having to work, but this is not always possible. Still, arranging your finances so that you can think about school instead of worrying about money is important. You can take out a mix of federal and private student loans. For private loans, in addition to traditional sources, such as banks and credit unions, you can often find online lenders who offer low interest rates and repayment plans.
Being in an MBA program puts you in a unique situation to access a number of different opportunities. On-campus recruitment means that major companies will be around to give you a sense of what working with them would be like, but you shouldn’t stop there. Extracurricular activities and clubs can give you more information and experience. Explaining to people that you are an MBA student can often lead to access you might not otherwise have to informational interviews, conferences and data. In addition to the networking opportunities offered by your peers and professors, try meeting people at seminars and even cold contacting via LinkedIn or other methods. This is a time to be bold.
You need to strike a balance between learning as much as you can and not losing sight of your ultimate goals. One way you might approach this is allowing yourself to take a broader view in your first year that you narrow in your second to hone in on what you see yourself doing after you complete your degree. Having a long-term goal in mind can also be important because an MBA program can start to feel like too much of a good thing, with an overwhelming number of opportunities that can make you feel stressed out instead of excited if you aren’t sure where you want to be in five or ten years.
With all these opportunities and your driving ambition, it can be easy to make your graduate program the center of your life, but ironically, this might actually be the quickest path to burnout. Prioritize your studies without making them the be-all and end-all of your existence. Balance them with something that you can enjoy and that re-energizes you. For many people, this might be some type of physical activity, such as running or yoga, or it might be cooking or refinishing old furniture. In general, you should make an effort to continue pursuing your outside interests and maintaining the relationships you had prior to entering your MBA programs. Your family and friends who have cheered you on up to this point can be valuable sources of support and perspective during this exciting, challenging period.
Instead, we have thousands upon thousands of young people, often from poor backgrounds, saddled with £30,000 of debt after three years of gender realignment studies at the University of West Norfolk (formerly Downham Market Tech).
Where did he get this idea from?
We don’t know the reason that the expert goes on to give:
The Government proposals for some pupils to focus on English and maths when they return to school in September could lead to “cultural apartheid”, an expert has warned as headteachers vow to ignore the Government’s advice….
Our task therefore is to ponder what reasons there possibly could be.
Ideas along the lines of, well, literacy and numeracy are waacist, innit, are too obvious. What therefore is that argument?
The winning prize is employment at the fool think tank of your choice.
We’ve been told for generations now that the secret to a better education is smaller class sizes. We must,m therefore, hire many more teachers. True, this has largely been said by the teachers’ unions but even that source might occasionally have a valid point. Although, when we consider that teaching is the profession with the lowest A level grades at entry perhaps not.
So, now we get to find out:
Maximum class size of 15 for England’s returning school pupils
Children will be kept in groups around half the size of normal classes but unions raise fears
Let’s see shall we? There’s going to be a massive rise in school performance? Or not? And someone is taking notes about this, right?
Children who are bullied for having ginger hair are “not dissimilar” to race victims, the actress Lily Cole has claimed.
It is indeed people being mean over a perceived physical difference.
About which we might say two things. Bullying occurs in entirely homogenous societies too, for human children are evil little bastards whatever the marital status of their parents. The second flowing from this first, if racist bullying is much the same as other kinds of bullying then perhaps we shouldn’t worry so much about the racist kind?
Actual racism, sure, that’s to be rooted out. But kids being nasty shits? And?
University students should be drafted into a new “national service” to boost social mobility, a Government adviser has said.
When undergraduates start their courses they could be automatically enrolled as Maths or English tutors for underprivileged children at local schools, according to Prof Lee Eliot Major of Exeter University.
The major change required would be to bring all new university students up to a minimum standard of literacy and numeracy.
Two Es in variants of grievance studies doesn’t constitute that proof.
This is according to a typically useful study from Anglia Ruskin University.
Or does everyone read that as Angela Ruskin U and then wonder who she was?
Academics in the humanities — have they added much to our understanding of the situation, or to our response?
Tyler Cowen. Written as specific to Covid-19 but applies more generally I feel.
Russell Group university awards firsts to more than half of degrees for first time amid grade inflation concerns
The phrase being struggled for there is amid grade inflation evidence
Oxbridge row as report reveals diversity drive will hit ‘middle class’ students
If the middle class currently benefit then changes to benefit others will reduce the middle class benefit.
Seems logically obvious really.
My Burning Ears:
I do hope that someone not utterly hare-brained has an idea how to get us out of our current one. Have the central banks actually been following some kind of long-term masterplan to that end, or have is what we’ve seen so far just a dance between periods of fire-fighting and spells of trying to gradually pull away from the fire-fighting without the steps necessarily belonging to some grander underlying scheme?
So far it’s been firefighting and hoping. Peeps keep trying to raise interest rates to get back to “normal” and the economy deflates again.
The problem is difficult.
The actual answer is economic growth. Well, yes, D’Oh. But the generation of that, well. Actually, this is an area where Ritchie is partly right. Monetary policy isn’t going to solve that problem. It can – and has – prevented deflation and thus negative growth. But actual growth?
Fiscal policy isn’t it either, although it can help. Reducing the UK tax burden to something like Singapore’s would help, certainly. And while I can dream no, that’s not a serious suggestion.
The other bit is government. Reduce the regulations preventing growth. The 1930s, for example, saw a housing led boom in the economy. But then back then it didn’t take 5 years to get from field to breaking ground with planning permission. REACH, as properly insisted upon, means you should pay up £250,000 for making even lab bench amounts of some new chemical to show that it’s not harmful. That slows down chemical research a bit, no? The entire economy is festooned with these restrictions that slow down economic growth.
One reason that it’s been computing – and online manifestations – that have been growing so much is that it’s all new. There are no regulations to stop you experimenting with whatever. You just can’t do that in any extant area of the economy.
The actual way out of the current slow growth and low interest rate world is laissez faire. Within the usual Common Law strictures of don’t kill the customers etc. But just leave markets and capitalism free to get on with experimenting.
This is my last column. After 26 years as a staff writer and 20 years – on and off – as a columnist, I’m leaving the Guardian. In April, I take up a post as professor of sociology at Manchester University.
The academic background is, umm, what?
Or are the two, Guardian columnist and professor of sociology, the same thing?
In a tweet directed to the university, she said: “This speaker is part of the anti-trans platform. Free speech is one thing, but trans rights are human rights and we shouldn’t be debating human rights.
We’re told these days that health care is a right, housing is a right, food is a right. We cannot discuss these things?
Freedom of religion is a human right yet we cannot discuss Israel, Judaism?
Tracey Loughran, a historian and dean in the Essex University humanities department,
She really want to insist that universities cannot discuss human rights?
Well, no, of course not, the argument is in fact that what I declare to be rights isn’t discussable only what we might add to that roster in the future…..
So, whinge, whine, peeps being unfair to the North:
‘Scallies with matching coldsores’? It’s time to stop sneering at northern towns
The media battering of the north of England, seen recently in Jack Hurley’s Rubbish Seaside posters, fosters shame and hopelessness in those growing up there. It needs to end
The poster series, actually in The Guardian itself, includes Exmouth, Southsea, Margate, Teignmouth, Brighton, Yarmouth, none of which are traditionally considered to be Northern towns.
Can these people actually read?
Rebecca Grant started her teaching career in Blackpool. She currently working on a PhD about educational disadvantage in Manchester, writing for Kick Down the Barriers in Blackburn and continues to teach in secondary schools. Charlotte Yates has worked in a number of roles in education and currently teaches English in a state secondary in the North West of England.
Does explain what’s wrong with the education system though.
BTW, the poster series is rather good.
Geography has become a “soft option” for students from privileged backgrounds expected to enrol at universities, an Oxford University professor has claimed.
Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford, said British geography departments often have “some of the narrowest and poshest social profiles” when looking at the backgrounds of students.
You’re not actually going to subject bright kids who might actually be able to do something to an education by Danny Dorling, are you?
Children in care who are given boarding school places are three times more likely to go to university, the first major study has shown.
Sending vulnerable youngsters to boarding schools also makes them six times more likely to achieve at least two A-levels, according to a new report by the Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation.
The charity works with local authorities to place disadvantaged children in some of the country’s most prestigious institutions including Eton College, Harrow School, Radley College and Wellington College.
And even at Ampleforth they’d be less likely to be fiddled with too.
As I recall it. So, Facebook is still really only in US universities and being used to rate people hot or not more than anything else.
So, UK student sets up something similar. And gets closed down by the UK university for being a naughty boy.
I know I’ve written about it somewhere, somewhen. But does anyone recall the full story?
Only one out of every 25 pupils in schools for those with behavioural difficulties or exclusions managed to gain passes in English and maths GCSEs this year, according to national data which also shows little headway being made in improving overall exam results.
People who don’t study don’t pass exams.
And?