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Barney   
14 Nov 2012
Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]

Do you think there's really much demand for KS1 teachers who can't legally go further and who don't want to work in a nursery?

Probably not cos they rotate the teachers to give them the experience teaching all ages (5 to 11 years) and there are so many qualified teachers knocking about.

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That's a rather low blow. Teaching English in Poland is more about ability and less about bits of paper

It's the truth.

Tell that to the schools and the students.

I've done it, taught kids and students taught in Industry gave private lessons some technical stuff etc I know what I'm talking about.

As for England and Wales, who cares...

Delph does
Barney   
14 Nov 2012
Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]

You have to get the equivalent of QTS ie full teacher status in Poland or do science o level to teach beyond KS1 But I'm not sure about England and Wales. There would be few schools that would employ someone to teach only KS1.

A long shot but perhaps try the OU if you have a partner school in Poland.

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English as an additional language positions are very difficult to get
Barney   
14 Nov 2012
Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]

If he UK allows such people to become English teachers in their national school system then I feel very sorry for the UK.

Not taking sides here but to teach in England and Wales you need qualified teacher status. I think delph is qualified to teach English outside the state schools but so is my 12 year old daughter.

I've said it before English teaching is a racket full stop. If you can make a living from it fair play but it’s no big shake.
Barney   
12 Nov 2012
News / Poland's Ruch Narodowy - should it be banned? [62]

If the power comes not from God, if it comes from the nation, so the power goes to the ones that flatter the rabble.

Until you point to instances of God intervening in the temporal world I'll go with democracy.
Barney   
9 Nov 2012
History / Goodbye Lenin - we don't want you in Poland! [85]

You mean being a Marxist makes you a happy dick?

No I mean being a seriously sad dick for supporting Nazi ideology. Karol Stojanowski a famous Polish interwar eugenicist was supported by Dmowski, the anti Polish thinking of these nuts and the undoubted overlapping of the extreme right and eugenicists is well documented.
Barney   
9 Nov 2012
History / Goodbye Lenin - we don't want you in Poland! [85]

ONR use the Celtic Cross as one of their symbols.

Cos they are sad nazi dicks who try to appropriate an apolitical symbol in some way to support their twisted view history.

If it looks like a duck etc it’s a duck. Why march using all sorts of signs and symbols if they don’t mean anything?

It’s the same as putting possibly, probably and allegedly in front of distasteful comments and claiming you didn’t say the bad thing.
Barney   
26 Oct 2012
UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]

Or it could be an indicator of the people at the top always taking care to ensure the people at the bottom are taken care of well enough that they do not revolt.

That is a possibility and if true would partly undermine every left leaning and left thinking individual. It would also beg the question if true why all the Victorian religious philanthropists were needed.

I don’t ascribe any negative connotation to conservatism some of my friends are English, it’s just that I'm not conservative.

That might also explain why the great estates of the rich of Britain haven't been burned within living memory, which is not a claim your own country can make.

When you have a foreign aristocracy who dont speak the same language as the people are of a different religion to the people and live in another country that may go some way towards explaining why their estates were burnt.

But let’s not get into a debate about English colonialism

the Reform Act

You are talking about democracy and using the reform act as an example!!
The reform act that discriminated against its own citizens on the grounds of wealth and still no revolt….

Check out Icelandic democracy and the Brehon laws
Barney   
26 Oct 2012
UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]

Modern democracy did not emerge in Britain that’s a myth. It emerged in Iceland, The Celtic brehon laws are a form of democracy that emerged and evolved over centuries and easily hold their own against modern democracy. You can however say that English democracy was formed in Britain.

Capitalism was formed in Holland not Britain
Socialism? no one can claim to have invented socialism that’s like saying we invented running....

Cultural and societal values are lacking elsewhere?
Barney   
26 Oct 2012
UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]

Find Simin Schama's history of britain to find out just how bloody our past is

Very few countries don’t have a bloody past England certainly does, but we are not talking platitudes or foreign conquest and plunder.

The lack of a revolution in England is a good indicator of the conservative and pliable nature of the people.
Barney   
26 Oct 2012
UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]

I had mentioned the Peasants' Revolt earlier. I agree, this is what I am talking about when I say "revolution".

Magda you are quite correct the English are an extremely conservative people by nature they tend to like the status quo (and Status Quo). The feudal then class system is ingrained, this is why they haven't had a revolution since the Medieval Period.

The big national myth is magna carta but all this did was move stuff down one small rung.
Barney   
26 Oct 2012
UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]

so sir Oswald Mosley was killed by some english amateur? Oh my, I didn't know

He is not talking about Mosley he's talking about Jaruzelski......
Barney   
25 Oct 2012
News / John Godson (Poland's Parliament member) and his views on social issue. [23]

Anyway, do you perhaps remember the name John Godson? He's the topic of this thread

Yeah I know and I was wondering why you posted this off topic attack.

I really had hoped that you'd learned your lesson when it comes to lying about posters here.

Attempting to drive another thread off topic Harry??
Barney   
25 Oct 2012
News / John Godson (Poland's Parliament member) and his views on social issue. [23]

Because Godson doesn't allow it to interfere with his political work.

From the posted article

{He] recently voted for work to continue on a legislative bill which would further restrict abortion in Poland.

His religious views do influence his political work, nothing wrong with that but others have been slammed for allowing their moral views to influence their political work.

think along the lines of what those advice centres do in Northern Ireland

I really dont know what you are talking about there

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Despite the dubious methodology, there's no denying that those of a lower income level residing in rural areas in Poland tend to hold more racist views.

Yeah you say that but I would like to see evidence
Barney   
25 Oct 2012
News / John Godson (Poland's Parliament member) and his views on social issue. [23]

in Poland, there's a correlation between racist views and education/work status.

I would like to see the statistical evidence for that, if such a correlation exists I would like to see it backed up with evidence for causation.

This is getting away from the silly views of Godson.

Why would anyone opposed to his views support him?
Barney   
11 Oct 2012
Study / Times Higher Education rankings 2012 Poland's top universities at end! [93]

I am well aware of this

I don’t mean to speak badly of any non teaching person in a school, I did your job for 18 months when I returned from abroad before getting the job I have now. I still have a CLEAPSS book and recipe cards in case I need to make 2M sodium thiosulphate at home:)

I know what its like to be confronted with an incompetent in charge of children who is being paid more than you, a person who dislikes children. It’s really frustrating someone who wouldn’t lift a pencil unless they were given a point

I have also taught and seen excellent teachers reduced to wrecks by incompetent management.
Barney   
11 Oct 2012
Study / Times Higher Education rankings 2012 Poland's top universities at end! [93]

Pam the teacher has to set out the lessons when absent the Head of department is responsible for setting work if the teacher is absent unexpectedly. If this doesn't happen then there is a failure in the schools management system, someone has not done their job, this is common and discipline problems often stem from a lack of management. In practice non teaching staff step in because the teaching staff have not given full consideration to the pupils that means they are not doing their job and pupils suffer.

Staffing is roughly the same here though there is a lot more non teaching staff.

In Ireland class sizes are a lot smaller the average class is about 20 pupils (it was 35-40 with no support staff when I was at school).

The equipment was always old and pupils always did simple experiments. Post 16 classes are smaller in my class about 6 doing Physics and Chemistry a few more doing Maths maybe 12. Experiments were whole class things one experiment which the whole class did together with the teacher for eg measuring the mass of an electron or bubble chambers and alpha, gamma etc radiation from sources etc.

I found these classes extremely interesting and the key to understanding science rather than just theory and equations, important as they are. Of course its expensive Irish Universities take it a step further with an awful lot of money spent on the faculty. The teaching labs and equipment are splendid really good (paid for mostly by industry) helping the undergraduates to flourish.
Barney   
10 Oct 2012
Study / Times Higher Education rankings 2012 Poland's top universities at end! [93]

It's not meant to be the job in practice, but that's how i felt when i was doing that job.

I'm sure it felt like that. In Ireland it's the same you end up doing more than you are paid for but you have to protect yourself, if something goes pear shaped and a teacher is suspended they are on full pay, non teaching staff are not paid while suspended.

As a Science Technician I'm sure you have been asked to mind a class while the teacher does their other job which they are paid extra for. You are not paid for supervision why should you stop doing your job to do theirs?