Archive for May, 2008
Ambition and Education
I had an interesting conversation recently with a friend who is a teacher. It started with her saying that the difference between us is that I am ambitious and she is not. My response was that it is impossible to be in education and without being ambitious - or rather it should be impossible.
She […]
Posted: May 31st, 2008 under Education.
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Work Experience
The highlight of last week was having my 15 year old daughter on work experience with me. Apart from exposing her to a couple of very long days commuting between Broughty Ferry and Glasgow I think she really enjoyed it (but probably not half as much as I did). Her week included:
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Posted: May 31st, 2008 under LTS.
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Stephen Heppell
Started yesterday morning by running to catch the 0636 train from Broughty Ferry to Glasgow and ended it back at Broughty Ferry station on the 1730 train from Edinburgh. Rather then feeling tired at the end of a busy day I felt full of energy and even more enthusiastic about the future of education than […]
Posted: May 15th, 2008 under Education, LTS, People, Technology.
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Last Week/This Week 13 May 208
It’s 1645 and doing a blog post has been sitting on my to do list all day. I’m in Dundee on the 9th floor of City House and the view across the docks towards Broughty Ferry and the firth of Tay is really spectacular.
The highlight of last week was a presentation to a group of […]
Posted: May 13th, 2008 under Education, Events, LTS.
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