Tag Education

LSJ off(line) on ’net news

Recently I wrote about how the Lincoln School of Journalism was still getting it wrong when it came to blogging — something I’d already pointed out during the summer.

In the comments on that post, Dave Lee wrote: “Blogging – and online journalism as a whole – at Lincoln has been seriously lacking.” I can personally [...]

Lincoln School of Journalism still gets blogging wrong

Part of what drove me to create LSJ bloggers in the first place was the stupid approach the Lincoln School of Journalism took to introducing students to blogging. I’ve argued that it does nothing to create interest, and at best just serves to familiarise students with the tools.

An academic year later, and it doesn’t look [...]

Not good enough, Edward Garnier

In which a Tory defers to the government’s view.

Some time ago I wrote to my MP, Edward Garnier, to express my concern over the government’s plans to make Personal, Social, Health, and Economic (PSHE) education part of the National Curriculum. ((The text was written by the British Humanist Association, whose campaign prompted me to contact [...]