In the second quarter of 2008, 209,000 16 to 18-year-olds were Neets, 24,000 fewer than the same quarter this year.
Neets are likely to have low skills and poor experience so the training and work on offer must be meaningful. Otherwise it will just be a stopgap before further unemployment.
Automatic subtitles in YouTube? I use Dragon regularly and wonder if this could be done... it looks like it still needs some work but the idea of it working with little or no training is amazing.
Every pupil in England will be expected to have memorised their times tables before leaving primary school, under new government plans, reports the BBC.
These will also see new tests of multiplication skills at the age of 11.
The checks will be pi…
1) Peter Drucker believed "Students Should Have Studied What They Do Well" "Delivering literacy--even on the high level appropriate to a knowledge society--will be an easier task than giving students the capacity and the knowledge to keep on learning, and the desire to do it."... "All it requires is to make learners achieve. All it requires is to focus on the strengths and talents of learners so that they excel in whatever it is they do well." But schools do not do it. They focus instead on a learner's weaknesses." The New Realities pages 236 and 237. Peter thinks that student who do poorly with math should not be let anywhere near algebra. This should make students happier but remember algebra teachers need jobs.
The website for the BBC Micro:Bit has lots of coding resources to use with and without a Micro:Bit device for both teachers and pupils, including program creators with a choice of programming languages.
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