School proms: a healthy way for teenagers to enter the next phase of life?

School proms have become teenagers' version of Cinderella's ball, and looking great has become their strongest religion.

The horrid missing letter apostrophe


Comments (2) 		We are not going to run out of the odd O, there are still plenty to go around. So, why do we need to write don't and won't ?

Encourage thinking rather than just ticking boxes


Comments (2) 		Too many exams at school and college test knowledge with box ticking exercises. What happened to teaching people to think?

Is scrapping GCSE's right?


Comments (3) 		Do the government and education minister seriously think that changing the system will not have a negative effect on the pupils?

Bring back the apprenticeship


Apprenticeships are good. Not everyone can be a pop singer or superstar, career building takes work and the apprenticeship will help you.

The crazy, crazy decision to drop language teaching


Language teaching has benefits that go way beyond the language itself

Technical translation - a nice little earner


Comments (6) 		There is good money in technical translation work, even if you only have limited grasp of the source language in general conversation.

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The danger of being English


Comments (1) 		Having English as your primary language may blind you to other opportunities.