Del.icio.us links for March 25th:
- Interview: Bushra Nasir, the headteacher who is now on the Muslim Women Power List | Society | The Guardian – Bushra Nasir, the headteacher acclaimed for reviving a failing London girls’ school, and who has been voted one of the UK’s most powerful Muslim women, tells Mary O’Hara that mixed faith schools improve social cohesion.
- Ian Black: The war that’s still going after 50 years – It is the world’s longest-running war and it may be coming to a bleak and inglorious end. Karen fighters have been seeking independence from Burma for a full six decades. Now the ethnic guerrilla army could be facing disaster as its enemy closes in on its strongholds on the border with Thailand.
- Self-publish and be damned? The modern writer’s dilemma – “If the general wisdom about self publishing has been ‘don’t’, its likely that wisdom may change to ‘do – but with great caution’. There has always been a role for self publishing, but as that role grows, the provisos that accompany self publishing will grow all the more important.”
- Cisgender – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – “Cisgender is an adjective used in the context of gender issues and counselling to refer to a class of gender identities formed by a match between an individual’s gender identity and the behavior or role considered appropriate for one’s gender.” New term to me.
- Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary shake-up – “Children will no longer have to study the Victorians or the second world war under proposals to overhaul the primary school curriculum, the Guardian has learned. However, the draft plans will require children to master Twitter and Wikipedia and give teachers far more freedom to decide what youngsters should be concentrating on in classes.” STOP IT WORLD THIS IS FAR TOO STUPID.