Jacob Christensen

• LO Ugebrev – Kun middelmådige studenter vil være skolelærere
  Siden slutningen af 1970’erne har de lærerstuderende haft et dårligere eksamensgennemsnit end hele deres årgang fra gymnasiet/HF. Men fra midten af 1990’erne begyndte forskellen for alvor at vokse. Og i de seneste år er det gået helt galt. De unge, der begynder på læreruddannelsen, ligger nu 0,4 karakterpoint – på den gamle 13-skala – under deres egen studenterårgang. Dermed tegner der sig et billede af en ny generation af lærere, som bliver mere og mere middelmådige, når det gælder boglige færdigheder.
  (tags: denmark education)

The Liberal Democrats may not be the most important British party, but still…:

As the Liberal Democrat leader flew from London to Inverness last week, he shot the breeze with his closest adviser over the merits of his front bench team.

In a stroke of desperately bad luck for Mr Clegg, the seat in front was occupied by a journalist who listened agog to Mr Clegg’s candid assessment of his colleagues as he speculated over reshuffling them.

That’s the nice version courtesy of The Independent. Unfortunately, the journalist was from the Sunday Mirror.