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Category Archives: Education
Steamboat Ladies
The University of Cambridge has not had a very good week or two in the media. I’m not going to enter that fray given how much has already been written and I’m a long way away from the details of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Women in Science
Tagged BA, degrees, Trinity College Dublin, University of Cambridge
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Tackling the NEET Crisis
We hear a lot about NEET’s (those not in Education, Employment or Training); they are a major source of concern and form the focus of the recent Milburn Review. His recent, if interim report, has dug down into the characteristics … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Education
Tagged Andy Burnham, Milburn Review, practical work, T Levels
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A Man of the People?
In the run-up to the recent Makerfield by-election, I saw comments to the effect that Andy Burnham couldn’t be the ‘man of the people’ he claimed to be, because he had been educated at Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge. A remark … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Education
Tagged Andy Burnham, Fiona Hill, Manchester, Oxbridge, stereotyping
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Work Experience
Alan Milburn’s interim diagnostic report, Young People and Work, looking into the causes of the substantial increase in NEETs (18-24 year olds Not in Education, Employment or Training), makes sober reading. The causes are many, across multiple Government departments and … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Education
Tagged domesticity, Flatford Mill, Milburn Review, NEETs, snowflake
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Equity for Women Around the World
It is always good to be stretched beyond one’s own comfort zone, even if by definition it is an uncomfortable thing to do. Recently, I found myself stepping up to the podium to talk following four successive philosophers, whose take … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Equality, Women in Science
Tagged UNICEF, Wendy Hall, Women in Tech
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