Title: Tom and Lynn in the Gambia (
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Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school - 09/Mar/2013 07:15 - 4289 days ago
Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school #TED : http://on.ted.com/r5Jx How often do take education for granted? We think it is...
National Secular Society–Edinburgh secularists back bid to abolish religious observance in schools - 24/Feb/2013 17:39 - 4302 days ago
National Secular Society – Edinburgh secularists back bid to abolish religious observance in schools....
National Secular Society–Lady Massey asks why children are forced into collective worship - 24/Feb/2013 17:36 - 4302 days ago
National Secular Society – Lady Massey asks why children are forced into collective worship....
Stand up and be counted - 24/Feb/2013 12:55 - 4302 days ago
There is a need for educators to stand up for education across borders and beyond the boundaries of our own schools. We need to ...
Problems abound for India’s schools - 07/Jan/2013 05:57 - 4350 days ago
India’s education malaise has all the hallmarks of a development disaster Kevin Watkins, in the Guardian Poverty Matters B...
WASSCE–West African Senior School Certificate Examination Fails Students - 01/Sep/2012 15:58 - 4478 days ago
A study of test papers produced by the West African Education Council shows that once again the poor quality of validation and s...
Hope in the young - 30/Mar/2012 19:37 - 4633 days ago
The decision of the Florida legislature to pass a law permitting prayers to be said in schools each day or for blessings and pra...
Working with in the Gambia - 07/Jul/2011 20:52 - 4900 days ago
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Would I recommend Home Schooling? - 28/Apr/2011 12:20 - 4970 days ago
Homeschooling has been the fastest-growing form of education over the last two decades, but is home schooling a good idea? Conti...
School Uniform or not? - 14/Feb/2011 21:45 - 5043 days ago
I recently visited a London primary school where parents were gathering in groups and taking sides on the issue of school unifor...
Time to make a decision - 13/Feb/2011 09:35 - 5044 days ago
I have been fascinated recently by the changes in views of child development and have begun to question when parents whould begi...
Hello world! - 08/Feb/2011 19:43 - 5049 days ago
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!...
Hello world! - 08/Feb/2011 19:43 - 5049 days ago
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!...
The things people say..? - 25/Jul/2010 16:36 - 5247 days ago
The English language is a wonderful means of communication which in so many ways unites the world. We are all used to the differ...
Little Brother Big Brother - 07/Jul/2010 12:17 - 5265 days ago
For the first child in any family life is an adventure which is never quite echoed by the second or subsequent children in any f...
Home at Last - 06/Jul/2010 16:51 - 5266 days ago
I had said many times whilst in the heat of the Gambia that I would have no withdrawal symptoms on my return. I dreamed of havin...
The Best Made Plans of Mice and Men - 29/Jun/2010 12:58 - 5273 days ago
The postponement of Region Six Teacher of the Year Awards on June 25th was almost my final act in Basse before leaving for the l...
Another normal week in Basse - 13/Jun/2010 08:43 - 5289 days ago
I became the centre of attention at the end of the week when news that I am to leave the Gambia at the end of June spread around...
The Legacy of Dashed Hopes - 06/Jun/2010 09:44 - 5296 days ago
I have only this week come to realise something that has been staring me in the face since we arrived in the Gambia last Septemb...
El final está cerca - 03/Jun/2010 08:57 - 5299 days ago
Nuestro tiempo en la Gambia es casi terminado. El año ha ido muy rápidamente y ahora tenemos ganas de ver familia y amigos. Su...
Rains and the Family of Man - 27/May/2010 21:31 - 5306 days ago
The rainy season in the Gambia normally starts in June. At its height in August and September the rainfall is extraordinary. Thi...
The‘god’ Syndrome - 18/May/2010 12:10 - 5315 days ago
I do not understand the developing world well enough to know if the phenomena mentioned above applies in other countries but it ...
The final straight - 15/May/2010 17:11 - 5318 days ago
That VSO called an education workshop for all volunteers came as a real relief this week. I travelled down to Kombo hoping to ha...
Notes from a Developing World by Sarah Wilson - 06/May/2010 18:01 - 5327 days ago
There’s been much talk in the press recently about the way that money donated to charity is spent. On the television, Bob Ged...
Untitled - 03/May/2010 12:52 - 5330 days ago
Four days of workshops on leadership and management for 107 Head Teachers brought an end to a very hectic period. Lynn, Jim and ...
Home Alone with money on my mind - 26/Apr/2010 12:11 - 5337 days ago
Four days of workshops on leadership and management for 107 Head Teachers brought an end to two weeks of solid work. Lynn Jim an...
Easter food parcels - 14/Apr/2010 17:44 - 5349 days ago
The Easter holiday in the Gambia is celebrated by both Christians and Muslims alike, everyone enjoys a good break and as schools...
Sometimes I sit and think, sometimes I just sit - 04/Apr/2010 18:12 - 5359 days ago
The Gambia is a young almost childlike country, immature in its thinking, its desires and its understanding of the processes whi...
Light at the end of the tunnel? - 26/Mar/2010 10:37 - 5368 days ago
Sorry for the lateness of this week’s blog but we are still trying to catch up following a 6 days of workshops over 7 days. Ou...
Recovery and Roads to Reading - 14/Mar/2010 10:25 - 5380 days ago
There will be times in anyone’s life when strength deserts them energy is lacking and motivation has been lost. Such an occasi...
Recovery - 11/Mar/2010 10:24 - 5383 days ago
There will be times in anyone’s life when strength deserts them energy is lacking and motivation has been lost. Such an occasi...
Civilisation wanting - 05/Mar/2010 00:29 - 5389 days ago
Perhaps I should not be writing this tonight. Some of you will say I should wait a while and write without passion, maybe in the...
A lesson in fashion - 28/Feb/2010 15:44 - 5394 days ago
Today, coming back from a tailor’s home, my sandal came off. Not a very remarkable thing you might say except that had you hea...
Workshops and the communal bowl - 18/Feb/2010 11:18 - 5404 days ago
The upper river region of the Gambia is becoming a red and brown dust bowl. When we arrived it was the rainy season and very gre...
Strange meetings - 08/Feb/2010 20:13 - 5414 days ago
A clandestine meeting with a journalist from an independent newspaper near to midnight in the Kombo on Friday evening was an int...
Rhyme and no reason - 02/Feb/2010 20:00 - 5420 days ago
Okay for you long suffering blog readers a quick quiz. I was riding on my motor bike along one of the sandy roads leading into B...
Birthday Week–150 and counting - 26/Jan/2010 20:52 - 5427 days ago
Those of you who have been reading our blog will understand that we have found the Gambia to be tough. We have also found the wo...
In the army now - 16/Jan/2010 20:53 - 5437 days ago
Our second week in January produced some very frustrating and also some of the funniest moments in our placement. Having just ab...
Back in Basse - 13/Jan/2010 22:03 - 5440 days ago
Returning to Basse was a little like returning home. We were warmly welcomed with open arms and smiles all around. Yes Basse is ...
Christmas&New Year - 05/Jan/2010 13:00 - 5448 days ago
Happy New Year to you all
Christmas has been an interesting diversion for us after three months in Basse. This is the tourist se...
Back to the Kombo - 24/Dec/2009 16:12 - 5460 days ago
Today is national clean up day. We have just arrived back in the Kombo after an amazingly quick taxi ride from Basse. The fare w...
Travel Pageants and Latecomers - 12/Dec/2009 21:27 - 5472 days ago
What a week! Following last week’s assertions that I had devoured all six yoghurts I was determined to put the record straight...
Long hours and new demands - 06/Dec/2009 08:11 - 5478 days ago
I began this week with a heavy cold, my first in years, as Tom went into work. This might have been picked up the previous weeke...
Tabaski - 29/Nov/2009 12:11 - 5485 days ago
The week started with Lynn having to go into work by herself as I had a virus which affected my sense of balance, no jokes pleas...
Vultures sitting like starlings - 22/Nov/2009 10:07 - 5492 days ago
It is strange that you have to be in a country for some time before you realise that there are no starlings as we know them. Rat...
A way with words - 13/Nov/2009 20:44 - 5501 days ago
A more productive week began with the return of the Director and Principal Education Officer to Basse and some sense of order de...
Digging the Neighbour’s Garden - 07/Nov/2009 09:38 - 5507 days ago
“It’s like digging your neighbour’s garden while he sits and watches television.”
Quote of the week came from Lynn after...
Busy doing nothing–Hacer ocupado nada - 30/Oct/2009 09:36 - 5515 days ago
Week two has come and gone very quickly and after writing what turned out to be, in many people’s opinions, a somewhat depress...
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