“Nobody believes me when I say that, as an academic, I have suffered almost as much in the UK as I did under the Taleban regime.”
Haroon Amirzada, a former lecturer in Afghanistan, on problems in having overseas qualifications recognised, in The Times Higher Education Supplement (Sept 8)
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“It’s not fair to compare the scores of, say, Hackney and Bournemouth. I imagine that Bournemouth has a higher proportion of older people and they tend to say they are happy no matter what.”
The research director of Ipsos MORI, Richard Davis, tells Inside Housing (Sept 8) that surveys that measure tenant satisfaction cannot simply be compared between authorities
“If the experienced teacher’s classroom is orderly and quiet is it not counterproductive to tell them to stop being reliable and consistent and start being ‘sparky’?”
Colin Padgett, a teacher, on the contradictions of teaching observation, in The Times Educational Supplement (Sept 8)
“Concerning the design of streets, their complexity simply doesn’t allow them to be the province of only one discipline.”
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Comment in Local Transport Today (Sept 7)
“Boxing keeps me fit and happy and I’m now setting small goals for myself to improve, both at boxing and looking for a job. It has changed my life.”
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The pleasures of pugilism, according to a member of a boxing club in a deprived part of London that aims to give young people a sense of purpose, quoted in Community Care (Sept 7)