Alternatives to University

Following the excellent talks on this topic during our Year 12 careers and university week in early July, The Daily Telegraph has picked up on the (re)development of this alternative route to a career and cites a range of employers expanding their recruitment programmes in this area. Some we covered as examples but several others are referenced in this front page article (click here).

More Summer Reading

Not often you can read one book which synthesises the disciplines of history, geography, biology and linguisitics, seeking to explain why Europeans colonised The Americas and Africa rather than the other way round, but my summer read has achieved this and more. It is called "Guns, germs and steel" by Jared Diamond.

Next up "Incongito" by David Eagleman, in which his neuroscience studies are used to explore the power of the unconscious mind and even drifts in to areas of moral philosophy.