Interesting Links for 23-02-2012

[andrewducker]

• Science Finds a Better Way to Teach Science. (Lectures are pointless. I wish I was even slightly surprised)
  (tags: academia teaching research science )
• The British idea that ordinary people don't need to understand mathematics causes appalling problems
  (tags: mathematics economics uk )
• How the European Internet Rose Up Against ACTA. (Gives me a warm feeling inside.)
  (tags: copyright acta europe internet censorship )
• The myth of the eight-hour sleep - humans may be adapted for two 4-hour naps, with a 2-hour gap in the middle
  (tags: sleep )
• What NOT to do when relaunching the Conservatives in Northern Ireland
  (tags: uk politics conservatives northernireland )
• A week of picking on trans people
  (tags: media uk lgbt transgender )
• The Only 4 Monitors You Should Buy
  (tags: lcd technology monitors )
• The iPhone umbilical cord charger. If I had an iPhone, I'd have one.
  (tags: awesome iphone )
• How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy
  (tags: pricing ai amazon )
• Orange, T-Mobile ready to launch 4G together in UK this year
  (tags: orange t-mobile 4g mobile_phones uk )

Comments

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

thankfully in Scotland it's not so dire. I did 3 sciences, Maths and English and could have done any combo I could manage to get timetabled (as it was I had to use 2 schools in the local area to get the 3 sciences - we had a co-operative deal going with all the other local highschools)

[camies.livejournal.com]

I suspected it might not be, and had a feeling it wasn't in England these days either but the division seems to persist according to the article.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

It might be a local authority thing, or even a school-level policy. Certainly when I did my A-Levels 17 years ago (God I feel old) I was allowed to do Maths, Further Maths, Physics and English Literature.