After my first visit to the Rheumatology Consultant last week, and before I start on the medication (a DMARD called methotextrate, an anti-emetic for the consequent nausea, and folic acid for the likely anemia) later this coming week, I’m enjoying the temporary respite from pain afforded by steroid injections and co-codomol.
Things might be worse. Rheumatoid [...]
When Chris Lightfoot, who was involved in the development of MySociety projects such as WriteToThem and PledgeBank, committed suicide last year, I thought again about the No2ID campaign he’d been so enthusiastically supporting - and I thought they were a bit, well, anti-statist libertarian cranky.
After all, I have to carry around several items that [...]
Training days for England’s teachers should be quadrupled to 20 a year, costing £75m, a think tank proposes.
Teachers ‘need better training’, The IPPR via the BBC
Every good teacher knows that, however seemingly interesting the pre-announced topics for teacher training days, the training itself is almost invariable bad. And then there are the days dedicated to [...]
