This section is the space for anything that does not neatly sit on any other page on this site. In a world that is over classified, over-categorised and over-defined, there is likely to be a need for a bit of openness, vagueness and ambiguities (and even oddity).
Moving the mountain– A full-length document bringing together a number of 2003 seminar and conference inputs describing the origins, mechanisms and progress of Birmingham’s city-wide programme to bring literacy and numeracy levels up to national levels from a very low starting base, via a multiagency partnership company arrangement.
Core Skills Development, Birmingham and Geoff Bateson: Progress on all fronts – An overview of the literacy/numeracy developments in Birmingham since 1995.
Adventures with Stans
The several articles in this section cover an overview of places whose names end in -stan; famous people with the name Stanley; and then an imaginative leap that begins to speculate what might happen if several (historical or fictional) people were to go on a grand adventure together in some of the -stan countries.
- Countries ending in -stan
- Famous people called Stanley
- Prospectus for the first great tour of the Stans
This article looks at the history of bureaucracy and its changing nature as society changes