Posts tagged as:

education

A thought on journalism for Boxing Day

December 26, 2010

Cover via Amazon I’ve spent part of the Christmas break reading Andrew Marr‘s book “My Trade“, which is a kind of personal history of journalism. If you like Marr’s history programmes, and have any interest in the history of media, I’d highly recommend it as his writing style, a mix of good research and excellent [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

If people don’t want journalism, we have no right to make them have it

December 3, 2009

I’ve been partially watching, partially taking part in a debate on Twitter over the future of news (what else?). It began with a tweet from John Robinson: “Tired of the media obsession with Tiger? Me too. Yet people are fascinated with it. Serve the audience or ignore ‘em & move on?” I’m bored of Tiger [...]

6 comments Read the full article →

Where did it all go wrong? When Labour started telling lies – Telegraph

June 27, 2008

Link: Where did it all go wrong? When Labour started telling lies – Telegraph. "A senior academic from Imperial College says that universities have to run catch-up classes for many students with excellent A-levels. And the National Audit Office reports that poor A-level results were the main reason why state school pupils fail to get [...]

Read the full article →