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Good Parenting leads to happiness

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As a follow-up to The Marriage Book (published in 2000) parents of four, Nicky and Sila Lee, who run a variety of courses at Holy Trinity Brompton, have produced this comprehensive manual on parenting.In five sections, containing a number of chapters in each, the writers address issues which concern all parents, including “The five ways of showing love”, “Handling ang (ours and theirs) “ and “Building a child’s spiritual life”.The couple talked to other parents when writing the book, and they acknowledge thanks to them for their shared experiences, as well as to their own parents, and their four children, … Continue reading Good Parenting leads to happiness

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Where are the future book lovers

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In this digital age, the decline in children’s reading habits has become a significant conern for parents, educators and researchers alike.  Although reading is essential and fundamental skill critical for academic success and cognitive development, why children today avoid reading books, is it lack of motivation, as it plays a pivotal role in shaping a child’s willingness to engage with texts. When children do not find reading enjoyable, they are less likely to pursue it actively. Not many children find reading literature that resonates with their interests or reading levels, leading to disinterest. Parents should play a pivotal role in shaping … Continue reading Where are the future book lovers

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Critical Thinking for problem solving

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BOOK REVIEWS – HELPFUL BUSINESS AND SELF IMPROVEMENT BOOKS.“Think Better: an innovators’ guide to productive thinking” by Tim Hurson (McGraw Hill, NY), was released in the US in October 2007and now it’s available on Amazon and of course in major bookstores everywhere. There are thousands of books on thinking, creativity or innovation, but very few books provide clear how-to information that can actually help people Think Better.Tim states “Think Better is about Productive Thinking – why it’s important, how it works, and how to use it at work, at home, and at play. Productive thinking is a simple, but powerful … Continue reading Critical Thinking for problem solving

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Defied her deprived background to get into Oxford reaching the pinnacle

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“Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision. The class system in England reveals deep-seated societal values and prejudices, often influences opportunities and lifestyle”-V.S. Naipaul Bridget Maeve Phillipson, the current Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities, since July 2024, who was on free school meals, working class northern England, from single parent family who had grown up in poverty in council accommodation on benefits but defied her deprived background to … Continue reading Defied her deprived background to get into Oxford reaching the pinnacle

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Better and clearer practices in “the evidence”

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Kucharski, a professor of mathematics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, explores how proof is not just a mathematical concept but a vital tool in decision-making, justice, and survival. From the medieval Islamic world to the recent pandemic, scientific progress has relied on different methods of establishing fact from fiction. Today, in the face of ever-increasing disinformation, how we prove things – to ourselves and others- has never felt more urgent. There is far more to proof than axioms, theories and scientific §       of someone’s guilt, or deciding whether to trust a new type of financial transaction, weighing … Continue reading Better and clearer practices in “the evidence”

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Language and curriculum have to be decolonised to deliver diversity, equality and inclusion.

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Why our universities, established as sanctuaries of truth and higher learning are broken and are failing a generation of young people. Consumed by funding and admission crisis, mired in political scandal and governed by self-interest, their founding principles have been corrupted. Matt Goodwin spent decades working as an academic in some of the world’s leading universities including professor of politics at the University of Kent, delivering underfunded courses to increasingly disengaged lecture theatres, sitting on rudderless committees, counselling depressed colleagues and concerned students, watching standards slip and academic integrity decline. He argues that diversity of opinion is under threat in … Continue reading Language and curriculum have to be decolonised to deliver diversity, equality and inclusion.

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Transformation from a programming prodigy to budding tech mogul

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Bill Gates’s trilogy of memoirs, including his first two decades of his life, from 1955 to the founding of Microsoft and its agreement to supply a version of the basic programming language to Apple Computer in 1977. Once a snotty brat whom everyone loved to hate, now grown up into a beloved elder statesman. Gates Foundation, focuses on unsexy but critical technologies such as malaria nets, “effective altruism”.  His early childhood in the suburbs of Seattle with a lawyer father and a schoolteacher mother. He was fascinated by his grandmother’s skill at card games around the family dining table. Eight-year-old Gates … Continue reading Transformation from a programming prodigy to budding tech mogul

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Variation in prosperity and poverty

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The success and prosperity of a nation boils down to their institutions, legal fairness and political transparency. Most countries lack the sense of equality by having exclusionary policies designed to enrich the elites and exploit the poor majority, preventing technological innovation, but social tensions, the legacy form civil conflict, geography, corruption and policy failure, contribute to government weakness. Extractive economic institutions do not create incentives needed for people to save, Invest and innovate.  Higher productivity promotes faster economic growth, and faster growth allows a nation to escape poverty. Nobel prize-winning economist, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson makes meticulous enquiry … Continue reading Variation in prosperity and poverty

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Misconception of at the heart of our educational system

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Drawing on twenty years as teacher, hundreds of interviews, experience on the UK Government’s Social Mobility Commission, head teacher Sammy Wright exposes the fundamental misconception at the heart of our education system. Focussing on the grades pupils get in neatly siloed, academic subjects, we simply end up ranking them and our schools into winners and losers: some pupils are set on a trajectory to university- the rest are left ill-equipped for the world they actually face. Wright shows that schools are- and should be- so much more than this. With wisdom and humour, balancing idealism and pragmatism, he sets out … Continue reading Misconception of at the heart of our educational system

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Embrace the power of AI as the ultimate learning tool

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Salman Khan, in his twenties was working as a hedge fund analyst in Boston when his 12-year-old cousin form New Orleans asked him for  some help with maths, which prompted him to tutor Nadia over the phone and she went from the remedial class to being the top maths student in her school. Soon Khan, decides to give remote lessons in Calculus and Algebra to his other 15 cousins in Louisiana.  He created a website by writing the software that  generated practice questions and recorded videos  to put on YouTube. Soon tens of thousands of students watching his online tutorials … Continue reading Embrace the power of AI as the ultimate learning tool