Abuja trained 100 teachers drawn from schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT). The training was done in partnership with two private firms-Procter and Gamble and Always. The title of the training …
Eliminating unnecessary workload around marking
Report of the Independent Teacher Workload Review Group, 2016 ─ Read item ─
The View Across the Ocean Is Not What You Think
It’s easy to forget that we live on a curved ball—and some people never seem to have learned it—but a recent series of maps by cartographer Andy Woodruff offers a mind-bending reminder. His “Beyond the Sea” collection shows us who we’d really be …
Shoshana Zuboff: Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to. The company is creating a wholly new genus of capitalism, a systemic coherent new logic of accumulation we should call surveillance capitalism. Is there nothing we can do?surveillance capitalism. …
The Guardian: Academy trust lauded by Cameron in ‘serious breaches’ of guidelines
An academy trust singled out for praise by David Cameron and both current and former Conservative education secretaries has been given a financial notice to improve, after an investigation found “serious breaches” of guidelines. ─ Read item ─
Al Jazeera: Vidhya Das: Fighting for poor women in India
Kashipur, India – In a large, airy classroom in the village of Kashipur in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, there unfolds a scene rich in contrasts and ironies. A reading and writing class for the five-year-olds of prathama sreni, or first …
Zarar Rahman: Women tech critics – a reading list – zararah.net
Zara Rahman: Recently, I’ve been looking for books taking a critical angle on technology (taking a broad view – data, the Internet, etc) – and I’ve noticed that many of the most cited ones are by men. I’ve read and …
The Guardian: Michael Rosen on academy schools: ‘Local democracy bites the dust’
The government’s insistence that all schools become academies sweeps aside input from governors, staff and parents. Could it have more to do with privatisation than raising standards? ─ Read item ─