Monthly Archives: January 2014

It seems to me that maths teachers are sick more often than teachers of other subjects. Often I hear of maths teachers taking a week or a month or even a year off work and being taught from a book … Continue reading →

I used not to be able to access several of my favourite websites in libtaries, like freeexampapers.com or freeetextbooks.com or demonoid.me. Now I can access the first two of these. The last time I checked, the websites I could not … Continue reading →

It cost £6 and some shoelaces to make this sandwichboard.

Extremely low. As a trainee teacher years ago, I had to take a gcse intermediate paper – though I had a maths degree, which most other teachers didn’t. The lowest mark that a trainee got and was allowed to continue … Continue reading →

Parents are turning into psychopaths on the sidelines as they abuse the referee, the opposing side and even their own children from the sidelines of school football matches. Given the madness surrounding the whole game of football, maybe that could … Continue reading →

The case of Nida Ul-Naseer is tragic, with possibly more tragedy to come. The 18 year old just wanted to go to university, but wad unable to because her parents were refugees, and home office rules rules out children of … Continue reading →

The average UK adult is worth at maths than a primary school pupil. They cannot read a bank statement or understand their electricity bill. Being bad at maths is how people excuse themselves from certain things, even as simple as … Continue reading →

Prince William, that rare example in the British royal family of someone with enough intelligence to go to university, cannot convince anyone that he was admitted to Cambridge to study a course on agriculture on academic grounds. In fact, Cambridge … Continue reading →