Laura | February 21, 2006
This year is the bicentennial year of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s birth [guardian.co.uk]. Her Sonnets from the Portugese are some of the best poems I have ever read. They are just beautiful. Everyone should read them at some point in their life. It is just a shame that she is quite often eclipsed by Shakespeare and [...]
Laura | February 21, 2006
The result on the smoking ban [news.bbc.co.uk] is something I have been meaning to update on for ages now. I am extremely pleased about the blanket ban on smoking in pubs in England. It means that I can go into a pub and not come out of it smelling like an ashtray. It means I [...]
Laura | February 21, 2006
Apparently, according to Ofsted, many of those who are training on the job to be teachers are not being taught enough [news.bbc.co.uk]. Apparently, the Graduate Teaching Programme, particularly in Secondary Schools, isn’t working as well as it should be and that one in five teachers undertaking this scheme are teaching unsatisfactory lessons, by Ofsted’s standards. [...]