Category: Education
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Casualisation of the Workforce — National Structural Issues Exposed by Covid-19 Series, Part 2
This short series of articles examines the deep, long hidden structural issues that many countries have, that have been exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Previous articles in the series have looked at the Lack of Trust in Science. Here is part two. Photo by Georg Arthur Pflueger on Unsplash Casualisation of the Workforce Over my working life there have…
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A Lack of Trust in Science — National Structural Issues Exposed by Covid-19 Series, Part 1
Photo by Manos Gkikas on Unsplash A massive tsunami has travelled around the world in the form of the Covid-19pandemic. That wave is in the process of toppling what looked like strong buildings. What’s more, it is washing away the sand to expose the very suspect foundations upon which much of our recent developments in society have been…
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Removing the Disability Label from Dyslexia, Asperger’s, Autism, ADHD and Other Cognitive Diversities
Photo by Wynand van Poortvliet on Unsplash A child being unable to learn to read at the ‘normal’ rate is only an issue in a literate society. For the vast majority of human existence an inability to learn to read was not an issue at all. In fact if you go back, say 10,000 years, an ability to…