An extract from BBC News 8 August 2011 – An interview with Carol Vorderman. “School pupils in England should study maths up to the age of 18, a report for the Conservative Party has said. It says radical change is needed to give children the mathematical skills needed to succeed in a workplace where numeracy [...]
Spelling mistakes ‘cost millions’ in lost online sales By Sean Coughlan BBC, News education correspondent, 14 July 2011 “An online entrepreneur says that poor spelling is costing the UK millions of pounds in lost revenue for internet businesses. Charles Duncombe says an analysis of website figures shows a single spelling mistake can cut online sales [...]
The Gift of Dyslexia: Why some of the brightest people can’t read and how they can learn by Ronald D. Davis “Why is this book important? Because the methods described in it work. Because the techniques can be used to ameliorate a wide variety of symptoms besides reading difficulties – from anxiety to writing difficulties [...]
People Management magazine, June 2011 reminded me that the UK Government accepted all the recommendations in the Wolf Review in May and that prompted me to download the pdf and read the full Government Response. “The government has accepted all the recommendations of the Wolf Review into vocational education, and has given author and professor Alison [...]
“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them [...]
