Title: Tom and Lynn in the Gambia (
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Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school - 09/Mar/2013 07:15 - 4424 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 - 4437 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 - 4437 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 - 4437 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 - 4485 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 - 4613 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 - 4768 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 - 5035 days ago
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Would I recommend Home Schooling? - 28/Apr/2011 12:20 - 5105 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 - 5178 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 - 5179 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 - 5184 days ago
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!...
Hello world! - 08/Feb/2011 19:43 - 5184 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 - 5382 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 - 5400 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 - 5401 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 - 5408 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 - 5424 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 - 5431 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 - 5434 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 - 5441 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 - 5450 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 - 5453 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 - 5462 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 - 5465 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 - 5472 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 - 5484 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 - 5494 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 - 5503 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 - 5515 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 - 5518 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 - 5524 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 - 5529 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 - 5539 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 - 5549 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 - 5555 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 - 5562 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 - 5572 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 - 5575 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 - 5583 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 - 5595 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 - 5607 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 - 5613 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 - 5620 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 - 5627 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 - 5636 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 - 5642 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 - 5650 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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