Interesting Links for 13-10-2018

[andrewducker]

Theresa May abandons pledge for 'time limit' on UK's stay in customs union as part of Brexit deal

(tags: UK europe )

Here's a sub editor not doing their job

(tags: viaSwampers journalism funny )

Theresa May kicks can down the road. Still hoping horse will learn to talk.

(tags: Conservatives uk europe doom )

FactCheck: Men are more likely to be raped than be falsely accused of rape

(tags: rape facts )

Theresa May faces her party as a desperate gambler in hope of a break

(tags: UK europe doom )

10 Psychology Findings That Reveal The Worst Of Human Nature

(tags: psychology )

Star Wars Writer Says Marvel Fired Him, Cites Tweet 'Vulgarity'

(tags: politics StarWars OhForFucksSake )

The difference between teaching in Canada and the UK

(tags: teaching UK Canada OhForFucksSake )

Fat: A new player expands our understanding of diabetes

(tags: diabetes fat )

Thank you for purchasing the TimeMaster 3000! (A short story)

(tags: short_story timetravel scifi )

Comments

[cmcmck]

I never like the idea of a national curriculum when I was teaching especially as my kids had MEGA special needs and this pretty much sums up why. The Canadian approach is the one I was using before they brought that idiocy in. I tended to write approaches for each individual and the NC no longer let me do that.

That's one reason I finally jumped ship into work with Young adults with autism which was outside the NC's remit.

[armiphlage]

Whenever I feel discouraged by the Canadian healthcare system, I just look at the US system and feel much better.

Now whenever I feel discouraged by the Canadian education system, I know I can compare to the UK system for relief.

Doesn't make the Canadian system any better, of course, as https://sabotabby.dreamwidth.org can attest.

[agoodwinsmith]

The Canadian time-honoured tradition for avoiding needing to submit a new course to the approval process in order to teach updated material is to initially approve a vague wave in the general direction of the material as your calendar course description, and then each instructor provides a semester+instructor specific syllabus for the taught courses. It's ideal if this is available before students register for courses - but not always done.

The UK system sounds closer to the Canadian highschool system (people graduate from this at 18 ish) - don't you even think of thinking non-approved thoughts about the courses being imposed on high school students.

[cybik]

The 10 psychology things says "a 2014 study in which 67 per cent of male participants and 25 per cent of female participants opted to give themselves unpleasant electric shocks rather than spend 15 minutes in peaceful contemplation"

The summation of that as "we would rather electrocute ourselves than spend time in our own thoughts" is nonsense, because it doesn't show that. It shows *men* would rather electrocute themselves and the vast majority of women *wouldn't*. Totally sexist, as it assumes that because a majority of men want to do something, the larger majority of women who don't want to do it are somehow less important. Pretty sure it averages out as a majority *not* wanting to electrocute themselves, if you take the population as being roughly 50/50.