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Bleeding Edge raised my ire recently by suggesting that perhaps the problem with ethics in business was that schools don’t place enough emphasis on teaching ethics to their students. Oh dear oh dear Charles, you’ve got me started. Maybe I’ll never…

I feel somewhat ambivalent about linking to this piece. I found it really moving and the title grabbed me straight in when I saw it. I think you might like it. At the same time, this last couple of weeks I have been too tired to write a lot and linking to this piece…

Crooked Timber points out the UK government’s (quite proper in our view) concern that ordinary citizens are not equiped to tell the difference between reality and parody.

Here’s an interesting site showing a prediction of the electoral college based on the latest polls.

Interested? Have a look

Here’s a wiki for teachers. Creator, Rob Lucas, has this to say by way of introduction: I

I’m really disappointed in the commentary on the Victorian [Australia] governments release of the “On Track” survey showing the paths that 2003 Year 12 students have taken this year. Not surprisingly the survey has found that a greater proportion of…

Scribblingwoman has been writing about her trip to England. This entry is worth it just for the dialogue right at the end with ‘Jinker Boy’.

Kevin Donnelly demonstrates just how fuzzy is his own thinking in Fuzzy thinking leads to failure in The Age Education Supplement today. His opening few paras aren’t too bad. He’s spot on when he quotes Ken Rowe’s research that the main determinant…