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Education and Training Links

	General Teaching Council - Site providing details on the Register of Teachers. It includes a questionnaire which forms part of the current GTC consultation exercise.
	British Educational Communications and Technology Agency - BECTA is a Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) with a remit to ensure that technology supports the DfES's drive to raise educational standards. Includes an on-line bookstore.
	EASEA Project - This project is piloting a web-based delivery system for getting DfES documents to school or Local Education Authority staff.
	Teacher Training Agency - The TTA site provides details on becoming a teacher as well as advice for those who are newly qualified. It also has pages devoted to a number of teaching subjects including IT and Special Needs.
	NGFL - The National Grid for Learning site brings together a collection of resources to help raise standards in education and to support lifelong learning.
	Student Loans Company Ltd - Provides details of the Student Loans system which is part of the Government's financial support package for students.
	DfES Statistics - The Department for Education and Skills' Analytical Services produce a wide range of statistics covering education, training and life-long learning.
	Early Years NTO - The Early Years National Training Organisation is a strategic body that represents everyone, including paid staff and volunteers, who works in the UK with children between the ages of 0 - 8. Responsible for training strategy for the UK Early Years Sector and, while it does not itself provide training, it advises on all issues of training and qualifications.
	The Enterprise Guide - A UK Government web-based resource for secondary school teachers promoting enterprise skills through the National Curriculum.
	DfES Parents' Site - Government site giving information about education in the UK. Covers curriculum, admissions, bullying, homework, choosing a school (including a school website search), performance tables, and Ofsted reports.
	Central Government National Training Organisation - National Training Organisation for UK Central Government, established to develop and maintain a corporate training and development strategy for the UK Home Civil Service.
	Department for Education and Skills - The UK government's Department for Education and Skills.
	TeacherNet - The UK government gateway for educational professionals. Offers teaching and learning resources, management tools, career advice, research and an education overview.
	Lifelong Learning Network - Government-supported website for the encouragement, promotion and development of lifelong learning, supported by the Individual Learning Division of the Department for Education and Skills.
	Adult Learning Inspectorate - Responsible for inspecting all publicly funded work-based training for people over 16 and learning for post-19s. Site provides information on inspections and copies of reports and publications.
	Planet Science - Designed to stimulate the imagination about science and technology. Provides science resources for primary and secondary school students and their teachers.
	Directgov - Learning - Official government public resource offers options for studying for higher education students, adult learners, studying abroad, parents, over 50s, disabled people and carers.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous Education and Training Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous Education and Training By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Education and Training In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Education and Training Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Education and Training I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Education and Training Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens�es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Education and Training A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Education and Training "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous Education and Training "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon My other wife is beautiful. Education and Training "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Education and Training blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Education and Training If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler Education and Training Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Education and Training Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland Education and Training Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Education and Training Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education and Training For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Education and Training I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol Education and Training "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Education and Training Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Education and Training Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." 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