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Chinese lessons: part II
And so it begins, in earnest. Chinese lessons. Official Chinese lessons. Not Chinese lessons in a park, on a bench, with whoever has decided to take it upon themselves to teach me the Mandarin for Beijing Duck this week. No, I’ve enrolled at The Hutong School in Sanlitun. A proper school, with a proper syllabus, […]
Chinese lessons: part I
May 11, 2012
I’m not in the habit of talking to old men in parks, but sometimes you have to buck the trend and go with it. And so it was on Sunday, whilst sitting, reading by a lake in Solidify Lake Park, that I became embroiled in a conversation with an elderly Chinese gentleman. By conversation, of […]
Sunshine on a rainy day
May 8, 2012
Shiny, glitzy, sparkling – that’s what Hong Kong is supposed to be like. But when I looked out of my window at midday, reviewing the notes from the previous night’s focus group, it was so dark that it looked like it was ten in the evening! Rain, rain and more rain – interspersed with a […]
David Willetts – “Connexions hasn’t worked”
January 25, 2011
It seemed a simple enough question, but David Willetts looked, and sounded, somewhat surprised last night when asked whether the Government was intending to address the paucity of good quality information, advice and guidance in schools in England and Wales. Continuing a theme raised earlier by Adrian Thomas of Network Rail, that good quality careers […]
Masters cash may be better spent on travel
December 30, 2009
Graduates who stayed on at university to do a masters degree with the aim of making themselves more employable might have been better off spending the money on travel. That is the view of some recruitment experts and employers who say that it has become more difficult for candidates to differentiate themselves, and that further […]
Degrees with benefits?
December 30, 2009
According to research by Dr Anthony Hesketh at Lancaster University, graduates “pay for themselves 20 months from their start date and by their third year, mid-sized graduate recruitment and training programmes – those which involve the hiring of 170 graduates – generate a £5.30 return for every £1 invested.” But how long does it take […]
The end of experience?
October 30, 2009
That someone can honestly be quoted as saying “Staff don’t need to retain information any more, they just need to go somewhere where they can reference it” is perhaps one of the most horrifying sentences I have yet come across in the world of employment and education. Staff don’t need to retain information any more, […]
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An Unweeded Garden 
May 22, 2012
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