October 2011 | Lee Jackson - Award-Winning Motivational Speaker, Trainer and Presentation Coach

Poorer children’s educational attainment: how important are attitudes and behaviour? | Joseph Rowntree Foundation

28/10/2011

Summary Download as PDF 0.1 MB Background It is well known that children growing up in poorer families emerge from school with substantially lower levels of educational attainment. Such ‘achievement gaps’ are a major contributing factor to patterns of social mobility. The ways that affluence and disadvantage can influence educational attainment are potentially very broad. […]

Tim Dowling: So teachers think TV is bad for children? Computers worry me more via guardian.co.uk

24/10/2011

via guardian.co.uk So teachers think TV is bad for children? Computers worry me far more Kids can tune out the television but computers rob their time and hijack their brains There are two different, slightly contradictory stories in the news about kids and television. The first is that having tellies in their bedrooms leaves young […]

Brain Exercise…

17/10/2011

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Stop swearing on the platform! by @Jeremy_Nicholas

14/10/2011

The ethical issue of swearing on the platform At some point in the last couple of years it has apparently become OK to swear onstage at business events. What the flip is going on? As a professional speaker I’ve spent the last twenty years being given the usual pre-match pep talk by event organisers on […]