Festival of Education 23rd June The festival started off with a short film made especially for this event by Paul McCartney on Vegetarianism. According to a recent report by the UN, livestock is responsible for 18 % of all greenhouse gases. McCartney has started a campaign called ‘Meat Free Monday’ and has put together a cook book with that name. His argument is that grown-ups … Continue reading Festival of Education
Prof. Uri Alon from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel is a pioneer in systems biology and has published several interesting papers not only in cell biology but also in the general aspect of scientific research (For ex: How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem, How to build a motivated research group, how to give a good talk) . I have taken excerpts from the third paper ‘How to give a good … Continue reading How to answer questions in a presentation
At Brockwood we follow the OCR examination board. OCR has two categories for chemistry, namely chemistry A and Chemistry B. Chemistry A is more traditional and topics are dealt with in a segregated manner and there are two separate text books for both the levels. While in Chemistry B, OCR write: In contrast to the traditional ‘topic-based’ approach, Chemistry B (Salters) is ‘context-led’. Chemical concepts are introduced within … Continue reading Salters AS & A2 Chemistry
Leadership by Robert Joss, Stanford School of Business. Here Joss talks about the view from the top. Communication by Bill Crawford, Psychologist, Author, Coach, Trainer on ‘How to deal with difficult people’. I understand that K is against techniques or methods of any sort, but when it comes to difficulties between human beings, there is a tendency to take a laid back approach (not doing anyhing) or an … Continue reading Interesting Videos on Management
Perpetual Motion of Thought 