{"id":14,"date":"2012-04-27T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewordsthething.org.uk\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-09-20T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:20:10","slug":"miscellany","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewordsthething.org.uk\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"Odds and Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

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).<\/p>\n

Moving the mountain<\/a><\/strong>– 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.<\/p>\n

Core Skills Development, Birmingham and Geoff Bateson: Progress on all fronts<\/a> <\/strong>– An overview of the literacy\/numeracy developments in Birmingham since 1995.<\/p>\n

Adventures with Stans<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n