Yearly Archives: 2012


The introduction of SATs

These are testing lines time. In both education and the field of work, the prevailing wisdom appears to be: if it moves, test it and if it doesn’t well test it anyway. I say wisdom, but it has become rather an obsession. In addition to the current obstacles, like GCSEs, A-Levels, GNVQs, ONDs, and HNDs, […]

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Leisure time

A raft of forecasts has been made in recent decades, predicting the decline in the number of working hours coupled with a consequent increase in leisure time. It was estimated that the leisure revolution would take place by the turn of the last century with hours devoted to work falling to 25-30 per week. This […]

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