It was uncertain at numerous points during the week if teachers in Western Australia would undertake a stop work meeting. The Industrial Relations Commission of Western Australia (IRCWA) indicated a directive from the State School Teachers Union of Western Australia (SSTUWA) that its members participate in the meeting was not lawful. As late as lunch time [...]
Via Richard Dawkins website.
http://www.rickygervais.com/bestlife.php
And this from [...]
A career in education is a rewarding one. For my own part I find that spending my days with young people, helping them to learn about the world, explore and develop, grow ideas and perspectives is, perhaps, the noblest way to spend one’s life. One cannot express the feelings that a child’s “Aha!” moment (that moment [...]
We live in interesting times, times that should be enlightened where knowledge, science and reason should be at the forefront of our world but where fear, uncertainty, mysticism and doubt occupy most people’s waking thoughts. Never have we been more connected to each other through the internet, through the media and mobile telephones but we seem [...]
As reported in my previous post we were buying a new car. After a false start on Thursday we finally picked it up Friday afternoon. Having driven it quite extensively around Perth over the last two days everything I believed about it is true.
From the outside I suppose you wouldn’t describe it as anything but anonymous. [...]