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From the BBC web site: Primary school pupils in England should study fewer formal subjects to allow more time for their personal and social development, it has been suggested.

From the Gaurdian website: John Denham, the secretary of state for innovation, universities and skills, today promised to "share the dreams" of every young person who wants to go to university announcing a scheme to help elite universities select academic high fliers…

Latest comment by barrow 2 months ago

A reply from an indepenant school said "it was a charter for bad schools-they don’t have to worry…

...according to some technology website or other. I remember the days when you had a mobile for emergency calls and that was it even texting was rare. Now these new phones have cameras, internet, music, and games, and who knows what else on them. Does anybody have an i phone? Are they worth all the hype?

Latest comment by Jobo 2 months ago

The nano version should be out for christmas. Well done Apple for creating this years ‘must have…

Irish writer Eoin Colfer is going to write another installment of Douglas Adams Hitch Hiker series of novels, it says in the Gaurdian today. I am a big fan of the series so I can’t decide if this will be a good thing as I get to read more about teh characters or a bad thing because nobody can write like Adams would have or see the world like he did. I think they should probably let it lie or if anybody is going to do it it should be Steven Fry…

Latest comment by Akhenaten 2 months ago

I agree with Lazarus – the American made feature film of "HitchHiker" was bad enough! An attempt at…

The latest in the big brother state is that they are planning to track peoples car journeys with number plate recognition cameras and keep the data for 5 years. No doubt they say its so they can improve the road networks and public transport but is it just another way to keep tabs on us?

Latest comment by MikeCovell 2 months ago

It will probably kept on a pen drive or laptop, the kind that get left on trains and at bus stations…

As another financial institution hits tough times is the so-called credit crunch becoming a reality? I previously thought it was all a bit of scaremongering – markets slow down and pick up it’s all a natural part of the way the system works. But now some of the biggest banks in the world are in financial turmoil it’s going to effect the global economy in a big way. I don’t understand it all but I do know my my mortgage interest rate and monthly…

Latest comment by Akhenaten 2 months ago

The City needs better, more intelligent regulation/supervision- not the rest of us! We don’t need…