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• Mon Dieu! An abiding image I have of this year's Euro 2004 was of adverts ITV ran ahead of the England-France football match, showing the archetypal Frenchman in stripes carring onions and cheese and looking thoroughly dislikable.Now I know there's no point invoking mock outrage, because to be sure, none of this is hardly shocking, but this, combined with the fact that the celebrations marking the Entente Cordiale earlier this year were recognised to be a damp squib, seem to provide us with some... from : andyandy 19th August 2004
• Feeling unwell? Have a holiday... The idea has had a mixed reception – some regarding it as fairly traditional bonus, others arguing its just a gimmick. It may be one to watch for a government though, which is increasingly concerning itself with some the ‘social’ problems facing the country: what to do about smoking in public spaces? How to tackle obesity? The Mail is obviously going for the carrot option here rather than the stick, which has also been tried recently . The question is – without... from : duncanoleary 5th August 2004
• Farewell curriculum 2000? Last week, I attended a consulation meeting of the working group onf 14-19 reform, led by Mike Tomlinson. Much of what he said was reminiscent of Beyond Measure, which Demos published in 2003, particularly on connecting qualifications to real and tangible capabilities rather than simply exam grades. However, the event raised a number of questions for me, with still over a month for people to submit their thoughts by email. In particular, how can 'inescapable' core skills be reconciled with... from : johncraig 19th July 2004
• PPPs down under The Evatt Foundation in Australia have just published an article that I wrote for their website. The article deals with Public-Private Partnerships and their attempts to wrestle with the complexity of school improvement. from : duncanoleary 21st June 2004
• Higher Personalisation Charlie Leadbeater continues his personalisation Odyssey with an article in The Times Higher Education Supplement today. Unfortunately open access hasn?t penetrated the paper yet, but here?s a taster:?The 1990s model of customer-driven higher education is the high-throughput university, offering standardised, just-in-time degrees. Shopping for a degree is rather like shopping for white goods in the basement of John Lewis.Yet the generation going into university have grown up with quite... from : duncanoleary 23rd April 2004
• Open Source Learning? Where does plagiarism stop and open source learning begin? A report from the Joint Council for Qualifications suggests today that ?They [students] would not be able to make extensive alterations without an understanding of the subject,? arguing that re-working (albeit small) exerts of existing text can be a valuable tool in self-teaching. The process as important as the final product? from : duncanoleary 5th April 2004
• Miliband on Personalisation The last week also saw two policy workshops held by the Innovation Unit for Leaders of Secondary Schools. These two events sought to gather the views of participants as part of the ongoing conversation about a network-based education system. A particularly interesting part of the day was a lively discussion around how the system can be tailored to meet the aim of Personalised Learning, as laid down in David Miliband?s speech to the North of England Education Conference. Everyone seemed to... from : duncanoleary 27th February 2004
• Demon Headmasters? I?ve always wondered what headteachers are like outside school and this week a few of us from Demos have been finding out. In partnership with the Specialist Schools Trust we?ve been running a series of events with over 150 headteachers and school leaders, helping them develop their own agenda for the future of education. Demos Associate David Hargreaves has been doing the star turn leading conversations focussing on what networking and personalisation mean for the schools system. His starting... from : paulmiller 26th February 2004
• Working laterally There's something new growing in the Greenhouse. As a bit of an experiment we've set up a discussion board for the new publication Working Laterally by Demos Associate, David Hargreaves. It's adapted from Education Epidemic, also written by David Hargreaves and published in conjunction with the Department for Education and Skills Innovation Unit.Coming soon - blogs and email lists for particular Demos projects. Watch this space. from : paulmiller 27th November 2003
• Library in your (their?) pocket From today, Peter M shows me, amazon.com greets users with a letter from its CEO, informing them that they can now search by the contents of books, as well as by the title, publisher, etc. Registered users can then view the pages of books on which their search term has been found. A pretty powerful research tool, and finally a solution to that irksome 'I've read it somewhere' feeling. I wonder what this will do to the demand for e-books, and more broadly what the implications of this kind... from : johncraig 27th October 2003

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