Being able to read "exemplary works" is a really strange and narrow definition of literate. I also have to disagree that "twitter speak and memes" is not intelligent communication -- just because something is new,…
Kids enter school at 5 or 6 with a range of reading abilities - some can recognise simple words, but very few are fully literate. The UK currently has a literacy rate of 99% -- something is going right. Learning to…
..or time. Schools in the UK have already got a curriculum that's pretty full. Everyone will have their own different list of "essential life skills" and trying to fit them all into the curriculum is impossible. One…
I'm just not sure this is true. There are plenty of things wrong with the education system in the UK, and no doubt many individuals are completely failed by the system. But most kids do learn to read, write, perform…
I think that's a huge part of the problem though - we've made it so the only way we can get research done is by training a new researcher - even though there's already plenty of trained researchers who are struggling to…
I think this would be a positive step, but to play devil's advocate, what happens when this superstar scientist retires? If I'm a researcher in his lab, does my job just disappear? If so, I'm still going to feel…
> "The climate is in danger/is not in danger and we should or shouldn't do so and so" is an expression of an idea, and can't be libel. If I was an employee of a climate action advocacy group, wouldn't publicly stating…
> So is it OK if a mob (not a legal or govermnet entity) stomped on you and beat you to a bloody pulp? No - legally and morally, this is not OK. > If a church (not a legal entity) asked its members to spit on your face…
> It's meaningless to be for or against free speech in some binary sense. What you can have is an opinion about the mapping from speech to consequences. You might think that speech should map to lighter consequences…
Fair enough. I'm certainly not advocating that it's ok to punch someone over something they said. The context of this thread (expressing political opinions at work) makes me think the other types of consequence are more…
Yes, and I think that's a good thing. But I don't see think that's incompatible with my view here - that freedom of speech doesn't mean I have the right to say anything and expect to keep my job. If I was to say…
I'm not sure about the current situation, but I believe the loans were maintained for a long time to ensure a certain level of government control over the large Chaebols.
For many of the clubs in the ESL a major problem is that participation in the champions league is not guaranteed. Currently, the top four clubs from the English Premier League qualify for the following season's…
Not really - Korea protected Samsung et al for years before they were capable of competing globally.
My wife banged her foot about a year ago. We were pretty sure it wasn't broken, but we went to the hospital to get it checked out anyway. We never even considered which hospital we should go to - we basically expect…
Funny, I must have missed this massive wave of crime. From the same Guardian article: "The policing minister, Nick Hurd, said that crime, as measured by the crime survey, was down by a third since 2010 and by 69% since…
Being able to read "exemplary works" is a really strange and narrow definition of literate. I also have to disagree that "twitter speak and memes" is not intelligent communication -- just because something is new,…
Kids enter school at 5 or 6 with a range of reading abilities - some can recognise simple words, but very few are fully literate. The UK currently has a literacy rate of 99% -- something is going right. Learning to…
..or time. Schools in the UK have already got a curriculum that's pretty full. Everyone will have their own different list of "essential life skills" and trying to fit them all into the curriculum is impossible. One…
I'm just not sure this is true. There are plenty of things wrong with the education system in the UK, and no doubt many individuals are completely failed by the system. But most kids do learn to read, write, perform…
I think that's a huge part of the problem though - we've made it so the only way we can get research done is by training a new researcher - even though there's already plenty of trained researchers who are struggling to…
I think this would be a positive step, but to play devil's advocate, what happens when this superstar scientist retires? If I'm a researcher in his lab, does my job just disappear? If so, I'm still going to feel…
> "The climate is in danger/is not in danger and we should or shouldn't do so and so" is an expression of an idea, and can't be libel. If I was an employee of a climate action advocacy group, wouldn't publicly stating…
> So is it OK if a mob (not a legal or govermnet entity) stomped on you and beat you to a bloody pulp? No - legally and morally, this is not OK. > If a church (not a legal entity) asked its members to spit on your face…
> It's meaningless to be for or against free speech in some binary sense. What you can have is an opinion about the mapping from speech to consequences. You might think that speech should map to lighter consequences…
Fair enough. I'm certainly not advocating that it's ok to punch someone over something they said. The context of this thread (expressing political opinions at work) makes me think the other types of consequence are more…
Yes, and I think that's a good thing. But I don't see think that's incompatible with my view here - that freedom of speech doesn't mean I have the right to say anything and expect to keep my job. If I was to say…
I'm not sure about the current situation, but I believe the loans were maintained for a long time to ensure a certain level of government control over the large Chaebols.
For many of the clubs in the ESL a major problem is that participation in the champions league is not guaranteed. Currently, the top four clubs from the English Premier League qualify for the following season's…
Not really - Korea protected Samsung et al for years before they were capable of competing globally.
My wife banged her foot about a year ago. We were pretty sure it wasn't broken, but we went to the hospital to get it checked out anyway. We never even considered which hospital we should go to - we basically expect…
Funny, I must have missed this massive wave of crime. From the same Guardian article: "The policing minister, Nick Hurd, said that crime, as measured by the crime survey, was down by a third since 2010 and by 69% since…