July 8, 2011
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The government has cut the guidelines on school trips from 150 pages to eight. Those wishing to read the new guide will find it here: Department for education advice on legal duties and powers for local authorities, head teachers, staff and governing bodies.
Anybody who followed that link should seek help immediately.
Just to repeat that first line: the Government has cut the guidelines on school trips from 150 pages to eight. 150 pages (there is no decimal point).
In honour of all maths, science and English literature teachers previously faced with this monstrous document, Guru has collated the following rather more ambitious works all falling well within the 150 pages the witless Labour Government had deemed necessary for telling teachers how to do their job in a different location:
Konigsberg Bridge problem, by Leonard Euler - ca. 12 pages
Investigations on the theory of the Brownian movement, by Albert Einstein - 122 pages
The structure of proteins: two hydrogen-bonded helical configurations of the polypeptide chain, by Pauling, Corey and Branson - ca.7 pages
Old man and the sea, by Ernest Hemingway - 112 pages
A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid, by Watson and Crick - 3 pages
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