Standards

Why Do So Many Genealogy Bloggers Promote Genealogy 'Myths'?

Scott Phillips | Posted 26.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Scott Phillips

If you have spent much time working on your family history and/or genealogy, then you know there is a popular saying as follows: "Genealogy without proof is mythology."

Why the SEO Industry Needs Standards (and Possibly Regulation)

Judith Lewis | Posted 06.03.2013 | UK Tech
Judith Lewis

SEO can harm as well as heal, as it were. I am aware I can ruin a business as well as add millions on to the bottom line. I take the responsibility given to me by a client seriously but I know not all do. I'd like to see standards not as exclusionary but as simply something everyone must achieve to call themselves an SEO.

Retaining Loyal Customers: Much More Than Just Service With a Smile

Wiggert de Haan | Posted 20.08.2012 | UK
Wiggert de Haan

Has the recession resulted in UK consumers expecting better service and more bang for their buck?

Mars Cleared Over Celebrity Marketing Campaign On Twitter

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 06.05.2012 | UK

Mars and Twitter are in the clear following scrutiny from the advertising watchdog over a Snickers marketing campaign on the social networking site. ...

Free Schools: Toby Young vs The Guardian

Bansi Kara | Posted 30.10.2011 | UK Universities & Education
Bansi Kara

Am I the only one to feel a steady sense of disquiet when reading Toby Young's rather vitriolic comments on The Guardian's news splash on Free School funding?

Phonics and Reading Lists Aren't Enough to Raise Literacy Standards

Bansi Kara | Posted 24.10.2011 | UK Universities & Education
Bansi Kara

As a teacher and professed literacy geek, I cannot explain how terrifyingly unambitious government approaches to raising standards in literacy can be.

A-levels: Higher Grades, Missing the Point?

Anastasia de Waal | Posted 18.10.2011 | UK Universities & Education
Anastasia de Waal

August in England may not guarantee sun but it never fails to deliver the annual A-level pantomime: highest ever grades shot down by retorts of lowest ever standards.