http://www.mattgillbe.co.uk/CMQN_maths_questions.htmlA selection of the excellent musical maths questions from the Chris Moyles’ Quiz Night TV show are currently available to watch on this website. They make great numeracy lesson starters. You will need the free QuickTime plug-in to view the videos. (Thanks to Mark Cornell for sending in the link)

Fed up with applying for jobs? The Graduate Recruitment Bureau will – rather surprisingly – do it for you. Just submit your CV on their website, and a team of analysers will assess your skills, put you forward for jobs and even make the follow-up calls.

The educational establishment is strongly opposed to the Education Secretary Michael Gove's invitation to all state schools in Britain to become academies, which amounts to the biggest shake-up in the way schools are run since 1902. They dislike the fact that academies are outside local authority control, arguing that this will make them much less accountable than mainstream state schools, and they claim that the move to grant academy status to high-performing schools will create a highly divided school system.

Use 2Simple's 2Create a Super Story software to make some amazing stories and interactive books.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ict/superstories.htm

Universities should face financial sanctions if they fail to deliver minimum class sizes and lecturer contact time to students, a leading vice-chancellor said yesterday.