by Simon Moran | Oct 14, 2019 | Business
As I write this article, one Sam Fender, of North Shields in the north-east of England, is number one in the album charts in the UK. Sam went to a high school in my hometown, then joined the sixth form at my old high school. He has talked about how a teacher at his...
by Simon Moran | Oct 7, 2019 | Business
I come from the northeast of England and went to school there until 1985. Many readers of this blog will have gone to school elsewhere, and will be much younger than I am. I’m 52 at the time of writing. I’ve developed a lot since I left school, so has institutional...
by Simon Moran | Sep 15, 2019 | Business
When I was at school in England, the law of the time dictated that everybody had to have compulsory education to a certain age. With exceptions for home-schooling and birthdays early in the academic year, this meant, de facto, everybody had to stay at school until the...
by Simon Moran | Apr 22, 2019 | English Schools
While English may be the world’s lingua franca, it’s a lingua franca more often spoken by non-native speaker to non-native speaker. There are more English language learners in China than there are native speakers of English in the whole world (400 million to 360...
by Simon Moran | Mar 25, 2019 | Personal
At the recent family reunion I stayed with my aunt and uncle in Caversham. We sat round the kitchen table for several meals. I first sat at that table in the mid-1970s. They were different, simpler times. My uncle had been to Hong Kong on business and brought back...
