Archive sections: ‘Education’
I try not to get involved when it appointing personnel – except for senior posts within the company. This might seem a strange policy at first glance – after all, with about 70 staff overall, the companies are not a huge and it wouldn’t (or shouldn’t) be too much to ask the Director to take [...]
In my role as President of the Kyrgyz Association of Tour Operators, I was asked to address a “Round Table” called to discuss the Bologna Declaration, its implications and its importance in the sphere of Tourism.
The International Business Council (IBC) publishes a quarterly journal – “Investment Now”. After the initial issue, each one has taken a theme for the majority of its articles: Banking, Mining, Communications, Energy, Tourism, Agrobusiness and so on. It may come as a surprise that in 2006, Education was chosen as a theme. After all, Education is not usually [...]
Sometime ago a newspaper article in one of the main government run newspapers carried the headline: “When was the last time you paid a bribe? … or took one?”
I am a great believer in “lifelong education”. You might expect this from a former teacher whose livelihood depended on learning, but amongst my favourite clichés are “It’s a wise man who knows what he doesn’t know” and “You are never too old to learn.”
For some reason, many people are scared of numbers. I’m lucky in that I’ve never really had that problem. I wasn’t particularly good at maths in Primary School, in fact I tended to get “average” grades, but in my last years that I found a liking and (minor) talent for Mathematics … the crucial moment [...]
A friend of mine was looking for work recently and came across an advert for the post of a Chemistry teacher. He asked what I thought … should he apply. The obvious question that came to my mind was “why?” … First of all, his degree is in Restaurant Management … so why Chemistry? His [...]
Whenever I complete an application form, there is always one answer which causes people to raise their eyebrows, raise the heads and take a second look at me and ask: “You graduated from Oxford?!”
I wasn’t a particularly good student at school. In fact I still have my school report where one of my teachers commented: “Ian works well when he can’t avoid it” … and I still wonder why he couldn’t have stuck with the traditionally tried and tested: “Could do better”, but it was at least original [...]
