Archive for the ‘Geography in the News’ Category

Geography survey finds people don’t know much about the world | Education | guardian.co.uk

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Geography survey finds people don’t know much about the world | Education | guardian.co.uk

Another survey showing which bemoans how knowledge about the World, have a go at the Guardian quiz associated with the article, the questions are much more difficult than the original ones asked…

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Google Earth captures drunken man passing out on kerb - mirror.co.uk

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Interesting result of Google rolling out its street-view capability.

Google Earth captures drunken man passing out on kerb - mirror.co.uk

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He may look like a junior geography master| Mail Online

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

He may look like a junior geography master, but Miliband has gone nuclear | Mail Online

 

Oh dear… interesting quote

He may look and sound like a junior geography master at a run- down prep school for dim and idle boys — or is that unkind to geography teachers?

I think the answer may be yes…

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Geography on My Space…

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Interesting Geography news aggregator on My Space, features some posts from here. Thanks Alan.

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Sad month of May…

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

As we know Geography is always topical…. thanks to Ollismark .

 

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Geography of wishes and (un)acceptable behaviour.

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

The Geographical Community would be grateful if Key Stage 3 students would take part in this research. Should take you five minutes. :)

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A new nation…

Monday, February 18th, 2008

came into existence in Europe yesterday. Click on the flag to find out more.

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Remember…

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Support World AIDS Day

 

 

 

 

For more information, please see.

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Workers strike in Dubai…

Monday, October 29th, 2007

I wonder if it was the same ones who travelled back with me from Dhaka

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Rivers and my experience with a tornado…

Monday, September 24th, 2007

_44134633_busdepot_damage203 Year 11, after a small, but necessary rant from me, on the repetitive theme of ‘important year’,  we started our new topic, coping with floods. Remember that this year is worth 50% of the course, thank you for handing your work in on time. (with the exception of those that were away, their due date is Monday 1st of October.) I will be looking over your work at the weekend and I’ll also blog in more detail about our first lessons on our topic. The day was particularly bad, very tired and this morning managed to walk into Nottingham through a tornado…. I just thought it was a bit wet and windy, I was much more worried about my hair! :) Some more information about this event can be found at the B.B.C. .

Survived another injection at the doctor’s, course complete, and visited home, where I had the usual education debates with my soon to be starting a PhD brother…

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