I never set summer holiday homework for the children I used to teach. Each time I was tempted to do so, or felt the peer pressure of my fellow teachers, I remembered how dreadful summer projects used to be when I was at school and vowed never, ever, to inflict on my pupils the…
I was delighted today to speak to BBC Radio Oxford’s Breakfast Show presenter, Howard Bentham, about the fundraising that’s been going on for Oxfam’s disaster relief campaign.
Today, Alan Milburn published his independent report on the state of entry to the professions by young people from backgrounds other than the most wealthy. It has been a slow news day, so the report has stayed as a major headline all day – giving me the opportunity to play media tart for a few…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8077741.stm
