When was it ever ‘cool’ to study maths ? I only ever remember beardie-weirdies in dodgy tank-tops trying to explain the unexplainable on OU programmes late at night.

Our schools are largely crap. Too much resource is put into getting as many people into university as possible when most people aren’t suited to it. This is done to disguise unemployment, extract fees, disguise the fall in educational standards and this results in less funding for those seriously interested in study and research.

It’s a mess.

Good luck to David and I hope that his mush has fully recovered from surgery.

Have you ever worked ina call centre, trying to sell broadband to hundreds of people a week?

They all hate KC!

If ever we embrace the euro then car manufacturing in this country will be affected and the R&D will no doubt be affected too. The government has done little to provide a climate in which manufacturing flourishes.

I can understand the difficulty in foreign languages as they don’t teach thier own language sufficiently well so they have no hope of learning another without stress. My 8 yr old son is learning joined up writing. They’re not teaching him what to write but how to write rubbish in a preferred style. Can anyone explain this to me?? Why do they not teach grammar? To give a good platform to learn european languages they would be better teaching latin.