A director of ADL recently had the opportunity to discuss issues in education with a leading UK government minister. Daryl Tempest-Mogg, ADL’s Director of Vocational Studies, attended a social event at the historic Knowlton Court, near ADL’s home city of Canterbury in Kent. In attendance was Nicky Morgan M.P, the Education Secretary and Minister for
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It’s been an exciting few weeks for space fans and seekers of knowledge in general. In the last couple of days, we’ve seen the Rosetta space probe achieve another first in human ingenuity, conducting the first successful landing of a probe onto a comet, giving us an incredible opportunity to learn more about these fascinating
Distance Learning – A Key to a Million Futures Prior readers of my monthly letters might be forgiven for detecting a little bias in my discussions on the traditional educational establishment. They might think that, when I talk about their awful habit of ignoring the needs of individual students in pursuit of a one size
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