It's all integral

I’m just starting on a consultancy contract to completely update the national occupational standards for the UK travel and tourism industries. Those standards will become the new basis for the National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) in the industry so it is important to get them right and we are taking best part of a year to [...]

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Susan Greenfield, director of the Royal Institute, has thrown her weight behind the debunking the myth of learning styles. In an appallingly ill-informed introduction to an article in the Daily Telegraph, Julie Henry characterises learning styles based education as: … children are considered to have different “learning styles” and instead of being taught by the [...]

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Roger Schrank takes a look at what and why we are teaching and concludes that we may have come up with the wrong solution to the wrong problem. OK, it’s written from a US perspective (fair enough, that’s where he is) but I think the issues he raises might have relevance for all of us, [...]

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I stumbled across this clip from George Clooney’s film “Good night and good luck” on YouTube. In this speech Ed Murrow was talking about television but it has uncanny relevance to today in regard to the internet and international politics. It’s quite chilling when you think about it.

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