Assess the extent to which home based, rather than school – based factors account for social class based differences in educational achievement (20) Let this post stand as a monument to how much I hate marking essays – I just spent 20 minutes writing it – the unconscious motivation obviously being to avoid marking four dozen with same [...]

Just a quick summary of this video for those students who didn’t get a chance to see it in class due to technical problems – once the vid has outlined some of the reasons for boys underachievement it then goes onto look at some policies to combat this – you can’t forward through it to select [...]

Extract from Kat Banyard’s “The Equality Illusion” – Chapter 2 – Hands up for …………….. A gendered Education I thought students studying gender and education might like this piece of research – on the consequences of sexist bullying. This is literally copied straight out of the book above (2010), hopefully it should be obvious how [...]

A few details of Sewell’s explanations for the relative underachievement of British Caribbean boys Against people like David Gilborn, he argues that it’s ¨not  teacher Racism! He says there are ¨Multiple causes – Mainly out of school – Lack of legitimate opportunities to get a good education! Poverty High proportion of single mother households Cultural [...]

As explained by this woman on a london bus! March for the alternative

The Tree of Life diagram is a great source to remind you of the utter insignificance of humans in the overall evolutionary scheme of things and in the complex ‘web of life’ in general. Click on the link immediately below to get the full chart!!! The Tree of Life Diagram For more details on what [...]

What, you might ask, do these have in common? – They are all examples of the developed world using land in the developing world to fuel high levels of consumption at the expense of local populations. All thes clips are from the BBC’s excellent ‘Future of Food’ series which aired in 2010. The first videos [...]

In this video Hans Rosling talks about population growth since 1960 to the present day and muses on what might happen by 2050 – using boxes as a visual aid to highlight how population growth occurs mainly in the developing world.  While this video is an excellent aid to understanding how population is growing and how world [...]

Lockheed Martin is set to earn £150 million for running part of the UK National Census. The problem here is that this company earns 80% of its income from working for the American military and has profitted massively from the recent illegal war in Iraq. There are also concerns that Lockheed Martin will use the information [...]

Jamie, thanks for teaching me how to make a really nice Mushroom Risotto – in return I attach this document - which you might like to work through like my AS level students did last week – Education videos and Web links with Qs It will show you that the problem with your ‘dream school’ show is that it [...]