Bringing Revolution to Private Tuition

Our android apps have now had 10,000 downloads. Many complete sets of notes are available as apps on the android store – just search for “a star maths and physics”.

With politicians, universities and imams fighting over what students should wear and where they should sit, I am sure students will learn to ignore them all, and keep doing what they were doing before the fighting started.
What we need though, just to make sure people know their rights, is for everyone to wear each others clothes and sit in each others seats, or even – imagine this – west the same clothes and sit in the same seat, all at the same time.

Apparently schools and education authorities all over the country are writing reports praising themselves. These reports, taking much time, effort and money to produce are packed out with pointless, highblown phrases, full of positivity and businesspeak guaranteed to make you want to rip it up.

How do we know this? Another education beaurocracy, fond of producing its own reports full of positivity and businesspeak has produced a report saying just that. I can’t help thinking they are annoyed at the competition they face in boring us all to death, so have made this tactical move to force their competitors out of the market.

Or at least not anywhere near the top. The UK has finished 26th in the Pisa maths score tables, which makes us exactly average. We are way behind many Asian countries where pupils work on their maths between waking up and going to sleep.
Bit puzzling then that the UK tops the university league tables, produces so many nobel prize winners and hos the most cited research papers.

To private debt collection agencies. It would have made a lot of sense to have had a public auction for this, so that the treasury could have had the highest price, and students the option to buy back their debt at a reduced price.

Since astarmathsandphysics.com went up in November 2007, many changes have been made and development has been continuous. Here is a screenshot of the first pathetic version of astarmathsandphysics.com

It’s strange. I decided yesterday to try and upgrade our blog install to accept multiple blogs using the same script. I didn’t know if it were even possible since I read somewhere this could only be done from the root directory of your websites. After a bit of a struggle, during which I managed to disable the whole website for an hour, I had everything working ok.

Then several very strange things happened. Our website went offline. At first I thought I may have overloaded the server, which I have done several times before. Then I discovered I could not even log into our hosting website. After a couple of hours, our website was back up. Then I noticed all the pages using our Joomla script were blank. I thought we had been hack, or some files had become corrupted. It took two hours of not being able to log in before I had the idea of checking the software running on the webserver. Our host had upgraded some software – specifically webserver software called php – to a version incompaitible with some of our website software. When I set the php version to an earlier more stable release, everything was ok.