“Mobile phones should be banned from classrooms, says Minister for Schools”

Feb 4, 2019 | In the news

All Tory Education Ministers and some of other complexions seem to want to bring back quill pens and remodel state schools on Hogwarts; or at least take things back to the good old days when they themselves were lacing daisies in the playground. This latest pronouncement, while good for grabbing a Daily Mail headline, makes me mad. Embrace the benefits of progress, guys, one of which is the miracle of the smartphone. Let the teachers run the schools; and for that matter, put Hattie Jacques and James Robertson-Justice back in charge of the NHS (kids, google that on your ‘phones).

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“The working-from-home illusion fades”

“The working-from-home illusion fades”

Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London Bridge every day? ‘Probably sitting at home in their bleedin’ jim-jams’, said someone recently of a less-than-helpful call centre employee, the assumption being that, were they surrounded by colleagues and with a manager cracking the whip, he or she would have sorted his energy bill more efficiently.