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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cambridge's vice-chancellor: 'A university such as Cambridge competes with Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, much more so than other UK universities, and therefore anything that prevents us getting the very best students I believe would be to the long-term detriment of the United Kingdom.']]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['How funny that we can’t bring ourselves to tell our children the most fundamental truth about sex, that most of the time we have sex, we have it for pleasure.']]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A Tennessee father was arrested recently by an overzealous officer for picking his children up at school by foot. The school’s policy is that children can only be picked up by parents driving cars or kids can board a school bus."]]></description>
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    <title>Women in science: a difficult history | Guardian</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rebekah Higgett: "As a historian, I am always likely to be suspicious of the use of history to serve particular purposes, whether that is to get more women into or more funding for British science. Laudable though those aims might be, there is a risk that the historical evidence will be selected or distorted to suit the current purpose."]]></description>
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    <title>Arresting the Unjustly Homeless while they Learn to Code | Medium</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This post is your daily reminder that, while people are good at people, they suck at perceiving systems.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Anu Partanen in the Atlantic: "while Americans love to talk about competition, Sahlberg points out that nothing makes Finns more uncomfortable. In his book Sahlberg quotes a line from Finnish writer named Samuli Puronen: "Real winners do not compete." It's hard to think of a more un-American idea, but when it comes to education, Finland's success shows that the Finnish attitude might have merits. There are no lists of best schools or teachers in Finland."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["the impact of humans on the earth since the early 19th century has been so great, and so irreversible, that it has created a new era similar to the Pleistocene or Holocene. Nobel Prize winner Paul J. Crutzen even proposed the name Anthropocene, and it’s begun to catch on."]]></description>
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    <title>Programming should take pride of place in our schools | The Observer</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If we don't change the way ICT is thought about and taught, we're shutting the door on our children's futures." John Naughton on why people shouldn't just be learning programming, but learning why software is so important.]]></description>
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    <title>Elizabeth Truss in a calculated move on maths | BBC News</title>
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    <title>Kids today need a licence to tinker | Technology | The Observer</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-30T20:01:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/28/ict-changes-needed-national-curriculum</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A great piece from John Naughton in the Observer, hanging off the back of the Eric Schmidt lecture at Edinburgh but (rightly) critiquing too much British computing education as being about learning Word, not learning programming, and highlighting Arduino and the forthcoming Raspberry Pi £15 Linux computer.]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk technology education programming arduino linux computing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:5e9b958884c6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:programming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:arduino"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:linux"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_1_snd-american-english.html">
    <title>What Happens in Vagueness Stays in Vagueness by Clark Whelton - City Journal</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-01T17:13:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_1_snd-american-english.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“And he was like, you know, ‘Helloooo, what are you looking at?’ and stuff, and I’m like, you know, ‘Can I, like, pick you up?,’ and he goes, like, ‘Brrrp brrrp brrrp,’ and I’m like, you know, ‘Whoa, that is so wow!’ ”]]></description>
<dc:subject>english americanenglish culture writing language education</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:28d640c741f7/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/special-events/borrow-map/">
    <title>Borrow a Map | National Geographic Events</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-03T04:09:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/special-events/borrow-map/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["National Geographic Giant Traveling Maps are oversized vinyl floor maps. They are the largest maps ever produced by National Geographic and require a school gym or large room for use. Each map is accompanied by a set of activities and materials. The map is in one piece, and requires no assembly."]]></description>
<dc:subject>maps education geography via:migurski via:straup</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:05514cb0972b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:geography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:via:migurski"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/james-bridle-on-wikipedias-10th-anniversary/69643/">
    <title>James Bridle on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary - James Bridle - Technology - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-16T22:07:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/james-bridle-on-wikipedias-10th-anniversary/69643/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was one of those kids who read the dictionary. Start at Aardvark. Would the Aardvark be as famous if he didn't start the dictionary?]]></description>
<dc:subject>wikipedia history historiography culture reference education</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:4fc14cd7d92a/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-charter-schools/?pagination=false">
    <title>
        The Myth of Charter Schools

 by Diane Ravitch | The New York Review of Books
      </title>
    <dc:date>2010-11-03T19:15:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-charter-schools/?pagination=false</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[gnat: Fascinating NY Times piece on public education. http://j.mp/9j4Fb8]]></description>
<dc:subject>us education politics school documentary review culture via:@gnat</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:c8ad3ea4647b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n21/stefan-collini/brownes-gamble">
    <title>LRB · Stefan Collini · Browne’s Gamble</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-31T19:02:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n21/stefan-collini/brownes-gamble</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[strangePLperson: one and only Stefan Collini on education cuts in LRB: http://t.co/wFzMcfK]]></description>
<dc:subject>lrb uk ecucation university funding government education capitalism choice finance</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:653632268eec/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/03/080303fa_fact_holt?currentPage=all">
    <title>Annals of Science: Numbers Guy | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-18T17:44:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/03/080303fa_fact_holt?currentPage=all</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was reminded of this today on Twitter, but I don't seem to have a bookmark, so: on mathematics, with an interesting bit about how the differences in how languages render numbers affecting the speed on which we learn numeracy.]]></description>
<dc:subject>mathematics newyorker culture education language science via:russelldavies</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:6548446c872b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:language"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:via:russelldavies"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2009/10/start/thunderbirds-will-grow-a-generation-of-mad-engineers.aspx">
    <title>Thunderbirds will grow a generation of mad engineers | Wired UK</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-07T09:59:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2009/10/start/thunderbirds-will-grow-a-generation-of-mad-engineers.aspx</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Warren Ellis: "As an antidote to this audiovisual paraquat they intend to spray into our children's eyes, I say the BBC should re-run Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds. Bear with me."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>television technology education science bbc wired wireduk</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:d0f7144e8f75/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:television"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:bbc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:wired"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:wireduk"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327191.700-from-butterfly-to-caterpillar-how-children-grow-up.html">
    <title>Butterfly to caterpillar: how children grow up | New Scientist</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-04T19:53:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327191.700-from-butterfly-to-caterpillar-how-children-grow-up.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Human babies are useless on purpose. Because they don't have to do the adult work of predating and mating, fighting and fleeing, they can discover how the world works and explore the possibilities it offers." Alison Gopnik on altricial species and adaptability.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>newscientist education children learning</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:aabf9f98cca8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:children"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:learning"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jul/27/guerilla-science-secret-garden-party">
    <title>Scientists gatecrash Secret Garden Party | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-02T15:59:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jul/27/guerilla-science-secret-garden-party</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Lured by Red Stripe and other totally legal substances, the scientists wowed festivalgoers with the delights of space travel and Jupiter's moons, the neuroscience of music and the propagation of waves in conga lines"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk science education festival event via:gnat</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:f69b395b3c04/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:festival"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:event"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:via:gnat"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/better-faster-and-no-office-politics-the-company-with-the-autistic-specialists-1693057.html">
    <title>The company with the autistic specialists | The Independent</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-02T12:58:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/better-faster-and-no-office-politics-the-company-with-the-autistic-specialists-1693057.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A pioneering company in Denmark is giving people with autism the chance to apply their skills to jobs from IT to product testing. The result is a huge success that's about to be rolled out across Europe. Founder Thorkil Sonne tells Michael Booth how his workforce's superhuman recall and unflinching focus could teach the rest of us a thing or two"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>autism health education work independent</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:6bb5a33e622f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:autism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:health"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:independent"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8063374.stm">
    <title>Probe into teacher Twitter posts | BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-22T12:07:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8063374.stm</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This sounds pretty stupid: a teacher has a Twitter account which she posts to during the day (presumably via quick SMSes) and gets leapt on for doing so. The "teachers may access professional blogs which have educational value but are not allowed to have their own blog" policy seems somewhat draconian too.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk school education twitter sms</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:5847e36de032/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:uk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:school"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:twitter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:sms"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12270990">
    <title>The economics of a British university degree | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2008-09-20T11:03:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12270990</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As the educational year starts, the Economist considers the UK's universities. "Britain’s universities break even only by charging overseas [students] what the market will bear." "This source of income is now more valuable than government funding for research." Also: "Cambridge University’s vice-chancellor, said that her institution’s core mission was “to provide an outstanding education within a research setting”, not to promote social mobility. Obvious enough, perhaps, but John Denham, the secretary of state for universities, said he profoundly disagreed."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>education university uk politics economist</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:b62f4fb7179d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:university"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:uk"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:economist"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7144874.stm">
    <title>The beauty of maths | BBC News Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2007-12-17T13:16:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7144874.stm</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lisa Jardine's Point of View column is back, and this time it's hung off David Leavitt's new novel based on Srinivasa Ramanujan; there's a short review of his life and interesting points about maths teaching.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bbc news comment india mathematics education culture</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:67267e52f07f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:comment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:india"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:mathematics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,,2225691,00.html">
    <title>Warning of physics funding crisis | Education Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2007-12-12T10:33:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,,2225691,00.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[More on the funding crisis at the STFC, which may lead not only to pulling out of facilities (cf Gemini links) but also a cut in the number of PhD and postdoc places. Sigh.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>education physics uk politics guardian funding</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:50fd964150f4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:guardian"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2225347,00.html">
    <title>Snow queens | Education Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2007-12-12T10:33:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2225347,00.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At Reykjavik University, 95% of staff are happy at work and each year the finances get healthier. Could that be because of all the women in top jobs? Anthea Lipsett reports"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>education university iceland feminism guardian</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:d80c9cbb0e33/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:iceland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:feminism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:guardian"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10251324">
    <title>The race is not always to the richest | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2007-12-10T09:56:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10251324</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On education, particularly science education. Turns out selection is bad, variation within schools is good, and that the more you know about science the less you think the world will be OK. Oh, and Finland is good at schooling.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>economist education uk international</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:774155042eef/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:uk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:international"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/magazine/30OLIN-t.html">
    <title>Re-engineering Engineering | NY Times</title>
    <dc:date>2007-10-16T15:40:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/magazine/30OLIN-t.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Interesting article about a new college for engineering and science in the US. "Its method of instruction has more in common with a liberal arts college, where the focus is on learning how to learn, than with a standard engineering curriculum."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>education engineering technology science via:preoccupations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:46a0b9e6ee92/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:via:preoccupations"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/09/rm_asus_launches_minibook/">
    <title>RM readies Linux sub-laptop... for £169</title>
    <dc:date>2007-10-10T22:54:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/09/rm_asus_launches_minibook/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Register's hardware site notes that RM are selling the Asus Eee (rebadged as a Minibook- better name anyway) from next month. The headline price is ex vat and for the low end model, but still, not bad.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>laptop umpc linux hardware tobuy/bought education</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:21d13eb436f9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:linux"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:hardware"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:tobuy/bought"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.wellingtongrey.net/articles/archive/2007-06-07--open-letter-aqa.html">
    <title>Wellington Grey - A physics teacher begs for his subject back</title>
    <dc:date>2007-06-08T09:40:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wellingtongrey.net/articles/archive/2007-06-07--open-letter-aqa.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I thought my Double Science GCSE was bad, but it sounds like it was an exam of deep rigour and seriousness compared to the current "physics" GCSE.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>physics science education comment environment teaching politics uk</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:5ad54237cfb4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:comment"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2090015,00.html">
    <title>Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Not faith, but fanaticism</title>
    <dc:date>2007-05-29T20:54:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2090015,00.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Oxford University should end its support for the homophobic, misogynist evangelicals at Wycliffe"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>education religion politics culture uk oxford</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:c262c94ef5f0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://education.guardian.co.uk/universitiesincrisis/story/0,,2084784,00.html">
    <title>The wrecking of British science | EducationGuardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2007-05-22T10:28:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://education.guardian.co.uk/universitiesincrisis/story/0,,2084784,00.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If the world's future lies in scientists' hands, the answers are unlikely to come from the UK unless we reverse decades of political neglect, argues Nobel laureate Harry Kroto"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>guardian science comment education future via:davorg</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:956abc2f4ea7/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:future"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2023742,00.html">
    <title>Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | A better way to help the poor is to reduce poverty</title>
    <dc:date>2007-03-04T12:47:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2023742,00.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It isn't transport policy or education policy that hits poor people hardest. It's poverty. This may seem a very obvious point. But the right has spent the past 30 years trying to convince everybody that it isn't true."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics comment guardian education transport</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:57db12fccf96/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/georgia/entries/2007/02/15/antievolution_m.html">
    <title>Anti-evolution memo stirs controversy | Capitol Updates</title>
    <dc:date>2007-02-19T17:44:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/georgia/entries/2007/02/15/antievolution_m.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“I am convinced that rather than risk teaching a lie why teach anything?” Does Rep. Ben Bridges really want to have that on record?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>science religion politics us education</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:9c61343dc7d2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/05/ncheat05.xml">
    <title>Telegraph | News | Exams in metal-lined rooms to stop cheats</title>
    <dc:date>2006-12-08T14:59:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/05/ncheat05.xml</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Students should sit exams in metal-lined rooms to block mobile phone signals amid fears that technology is fuelling a "substantial" increase in cheating, a Government-backed study said yesterday."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk education mobile paranoia</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:b8ddd4323f36/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:mobile"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2461748,00.html">
    <title>Health fears lead schools to dismantle wireless networks - Britain - Times Online</title>
    <dc:date>2006-11-20T12:20:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2461748,00.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Do these kids not all have mobile phones anyway? Sigh.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>wireless health education paranoia science badscience</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:bff1c5d8733b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:paranoia"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,1844264,00.html">
    <title>EducationGuardian.co.uk | eG weekly | How did we get here?</title>
    <dc:date>2006-08-15T13:32:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,1844264,00.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["more than 30% of [university] students in the UK say they believe in creationism and intelligent design"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>education evolution science guardian</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:ccdc9ada1ad1/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:evolution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:science"/>
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</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.ippr.org.uk/pressreleases/?id=2260">
    <title>ippr - Institute for Public Policy Research - One in four 16-18 year olds still not in education or training</title>
    <dc:date>2006-08-15T10:25:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ippr.org.uk/pressreleases/?id=2260</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A-levels should be phased out after a review in 2008 and the Government should introduce a ‘British Baccalaureate’ with a menu of academic and vocational elements" not that anyone will pay any attention
]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics education comment</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:9b983185d7df/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:comment"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5212926.stm">
    <title>BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | UK physics funding to be revamped</title>
    <dc:date>2006-07-25T11:49:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5212926.stm</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I wonder what the impact of this will be. Probably good for big projects.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>physics science funding education research uk</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:0441ee5060fd/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:research"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist/2006/06/is_oxford_shortchanging_its_st.php">
    <title>The Scientific Activist</title>
    <dc:date>2006-06-14T13:56:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist/2006/06/is_oxford_shortchanging_its_st.php</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Specialisation vs depth at graduate level; it's a problem right down to A-level though.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>blogcomment science education</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:527759aefb5c/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2006/05/emmy-noether.html">
    <title>Backreaction: Emmy Noether</title>
    <dc:date>2006-06-06T14:13:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2006/05/emmy-noether.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Failing to get grants to come back to Germany to do postdoc work. Sigh.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>science funding education</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:cd879c40bd0f/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/may/25powerschool.html">
    <title>Pearson to Acquire PowerSchool</title>
    <dc:date>2006-05-25T13:11:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/may/25powerschool.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Apple offloading their K-12 product to, well, Pearson Education. A sign of refocussing inside the mothership towards entertainment/consumer devices?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>apple education software development</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:07e2d5416ffb/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:apple"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4950876.stm">
    <title>BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Believe it or not: The battle over certainty</title>
    <dc:date>2006-05-08T10:20:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4950876.stm</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A scrupulous scientist like Huygens would rather be disappointed, than accept dubious evidence to provide pat confirmation of a pet theory." Good piece, this.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>science education comment politics climatechange</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:a9e1d52326fb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:comment"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/007656.html">
    <title>k-punk: Reflexive impotence</title>
    <dc:date>2006-04-19T10:28:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/007656.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Good piece on capitalism, education, teenagers
]]></description>
<dc:subject>education culture politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:6cb4b615b6fb/</dc:identifier>
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