InvolverLynne Featherstone writes:
“Tap in and tap out: yes please
It’s one of the great successes of Transport for London. Yes – you heard right – TfL and the word ‘success’ in the same breath. I’m talking Oyster!
Now we tap in and tap out without a second thought. We nimbly flit from tube to bus – tap in / tap out. And then we try and nimbly flit from tube to bus to train – and oh dear – we can’t!
MJ
Plans to change the law to require dads, as well as mums to be named on the birth certificate are being announced by Secretary of State for Work James Purnell and Children’s Secretary Ed Balls in a joint White Paper published today.
The change, which will be implemented in the next session’s Welfare Reform Bill, will put parental responsibility centre stage by giving mothers or fathers a right to insist that the other parent acknowledges their responsibilities to their child by registering on the birth certificate… Link
This sounds reasonable, but I wonder what the counter argument is to this?
Mark
IPPR have just published Thursday’s Child, a research/policy document on where they think education should be going. One of the issues they discuss is social and emotional wellbeing, it contains this paragraph:
Wellbeing in the classroom
The school environment is the most important school-level component of the emotional and social wellbeing of pupils and teachers. Classroom environments that foster warm, personal relationships and strong bonds between teachers and learners best promote social and emotional wellbeing. There needs to be a greater focus in ITT and CPD on how to promote these classroom environments and facilitate social and emotional learning; for example, how to use group dynamics effectively in classrooms. Teachers should also receive training on how to pick up issues as soon as they arise.
You can read the rest of the summary in Information and Research > IPPR.
Following responses so far:
From a non-renewing member:
1. What do I like about the site?
I think the website looks interesting as soon as you reach the homepage, it is bright, easy to read and with a
DCSF Guidance Looks At How Schools Can Get Pupils To Participate –
New advice on how to get young people involved in their school and learn important citizenship skills, for example through ‘buddying’ younger pupils and encouraging them to study or improve behaviour was published today, announced Schools Minister Jim Knight.
He’s an ex-prison governor. It seems to me like Boris’ view of young people is that they are a problem for his constituents, rather than anything else.
Bit more info here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/06/boris.race