The Futurelab/Toshiba publication ,”Transforming Schools for the Future”was launched at the BSEC conference in Manchester on the day the National Audit Office published a report on BSF. Despite the predicatable “politicking” and negative press perspectives the report is much more positive than the ususal audit report(otherwise why would we need auditors!)

Google Latitude allows you to share GPS data, making it easy to see where your friends are at any given moment on a Google map.

Science is boring, irrelevant and elitist. It’s clouded in incomprehensible terminology, dogged by in-fighting, and fails to describe the world most people see around them (at least in part because much science these days is focused on the “invisible” or unseen world of quantum mechanics, cellular biology etc). The government’s in a lather about it, given that national science week’s coming up in March and, more to the point, because science and innovation are the economic pillars for national progress. Deja vu anyone?

I was wondering why music lessons are often poor. I must admit, it’s not an area I have thought about before today, and if it wasn’t for the Today programme this morning I wouldn’t have given it a second thought.