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The Brampton Factor: Is there really a skills crisis?
Comment As a schoolboy, I had very little idea what most adults did for a living, unless they were school teachers. Confused IT skills policies in schools and colleges are part of the problem. But they're being combined with a widespread failure to tap... [09 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment I know some exceptional IT teachers who have left school to get a real life. Also getting readers reaching for their keyboards this week, the OFT and Kangaroo and phones on planes - love them or loathe them? [03 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Trying to explain
Comment Throughout my life I have stumbled upon wonderful teachers and experts who combined a deep understanding with an ability to explain and communicate clearly and plainly. Written at my home in Suffolk UK and dispatched to silicon.com from the Wild... [14 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Net education
Comment Government programmes and investments have so far failed to halt the decline and the falling numbers of good teachers today means there will be even fewer in years to come. Written at London Heathrow and dispatched from a free wi-fi service at... [06 Dec 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No risk, no progress
Comment In Western education and industry, teachers and managers feel inhibited by the oppressive, risk-averse culture laid on them by central government and fear the potential for punitive litigation over the most trivial errors or accidents. [03 Oct 2007]
Leader: Why we must know more about wi-fi
Leader This week the Professional Association of Teachers will write to the Education Secretary Alan Johnson to request further research into the effects of wi-fi networks in schools and other educational facilities, fearing wireless could prove harmful... [23 Apr 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: A piglet, a sausage and a grinder
Comment Curiously the more complex a topic the better my teachers seemed to be at the art of mental visualisation. I can claim no credit for this line of approach, as my own teachers imparted so much clarity by the same mechanism. [13 Dec 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 1.12.06
Round-Up Personally the Round-Up thinks classics teachers in general should get their own house in order before blaming 'new fangled technology' for making people ill. There is a new danger all around us, ladies and gentlemen. [01 Dec 2006]
Leader: Bored at work? Change job - not career
Leader Teachers are important - but they need to be of a certain temperament to survive the classrooms. Essentially few people could reach their goals without teachers. Whether those teachers are in the classroom, offices, down the pub or on the sports... [27 Jul 2006]
Leader: Getting IT right isn't child's play
Leader Teachers say that kids are better at team working and collaboration - and even more creative as a result of using computers. Much has been said about the malign influence of technology the young. It turns them into dark-eyed ghouls that can only... [06 Apr 2006]
Leader: The UK must invest in scientists
Leader There should be better opportunities for kids to get involved with and excited about science and computers - areas often taught in a parrot fashion that's boring for students and teachers alike. If computer science is to become the fabric of... [23 Mar 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Can education be saved?
Comment One result is the reduced likelihood of being able to find good teachers capable of providing real value-add for students wishing to study the subjects. Thus we see teachers under an increasing administration load, tightly constrained in what they... [10 Mar 2005]
Leader: Long hours come with the job
Leader Still a lot of IT staff are pretty well paid (compared to, say, teachers who top the TUC's unpaid overtime league). This Friday workers up and down the country are being urged to 'Work Your Proper Hours' by the Trades Union Congress, which is... [24 Feb 2005]
Opinion: A bad case of worms
Comment From personal experience, home PC users appear to fall into two categories: those like my father-in-law, who is so worried by the possibility of fraud that he's not going to risk connecting his brand new Hewlett-Packard system to the internet; and... [21 Dec 2004]
Leader: How do we get more kids into tech?
Leader The quality of teachers is hit and miss - simple as that. Then there is the fact that even if schools could guarantee facilities and decent teachers, could they ever guarantee a decent intake of students? [27 Aug 2004]
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