In the realms of British TV, few have come bigger then “Top Gear”. It’s a show that has won an Emmy (2005, Non-Scripted Entertainment), been nominated for BAFTA’s and National Television Awards, (winning in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2011, Most Popular Factual Programme) and been syndicated globally. This has made…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN
It’s hard not to be cynical about Hollywood sometimes, particularly when it produces films as lazy as Victor Frankenstein, an uninspired origin story of Victor Frankenstein and his assistant, Igor Straussman. Before a chance meeting with Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy), a then nameless Igor (Daniel Radcliffe) worked as both a clown…
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Does school computers help or hinder results?
At the moment of writing, there’s a big buzz on British social media, after BBC reported on a recent OECD study that showed no increased results in pupil performance when introducing computers to the class rooms. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) educational director Andreas Schleicher even goes so far…
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