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Thursday February 12, 2009

Languages in Schools..

On Breakfast TV this morning it was reported the take up of Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Irish is growing big time in our schools. A desire by parents for their children to learn more about their culture is one reason but the second reason is that it has been shown that children who take up languages end up with higher IQ's and do better in schools. Years ago while on holiday in Wales we were in a town flooded with kids out of school over lunchtime. They were all speaking Welsh. I loved it. The only trouble is us poor English feel a bit left out.

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Terms and Conditions

It is reported today that three quarters of us never read the terms and conditions wether we are purchasing online or by traditional means. The fact that often it makes no sense, reads like gobblygook or it is printed in such small print it is unreadable anyway are some of the reasons we give for ignoring this information. Never fear, the UK Information Commissioner is at our rescue.

I found a bit more information on this here

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