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[travellingtefler]

Hi

You may have replied to this on another thread (I can't find the thread where I originally posted) - is the Job Information Journal being discontinued?

I have always enjoyed reading the posts but there have been few updates in the last months.

I fear the Journal is being phased out or maybe people don't post anymore.

Also - could we have a place for people to post about schools by name with the threads kept under the name of the organisation?

Just a thought.

[Roger]

I have a different suggestion.

Recycle those contributions, order them ialphabetically and by country, and, since we all are so subjective in our judgements, give each school 3 positive and no more than 3 negative reviews!

If people keep posting overwhelmingly bad feedback, an investigation could be launched, or an extra page could bew added to list these negative posts.

But basically we should give each school thebenefit of a welcoming mat by posting a positive review first.

The credibility of some posters really is not much to be proud of! Especially the repeat critiques!

[travellingtefler]

Hi

The reason I suggested the forums for schools is that some places become infamous because of bad posts but there should be some place where you could read about good institutes and this would help when you were investigating work in a particular area.

I do realise that most places are a mixture of good and bad - and some companies have good locations as well as bad so it would depend on where you were placed.

I just think that good organisations should be recognised and such a forum would perhaps encourage companies to treat staff well because they may get more applications from good press.

It was just a thought and it might be a constructive thing - you could find out what companies are interested in staff development etc.

Maybe Dave could establish the Sperling Awards for General Excellence?

[dmb]

The problem with this is that places don't always stay the same. All it takes is a change in management for a good place to become bad and vice versa.

[travellingtefler]

dmb

I take your point - but that would be one of the useful things about such a forum - we could find out what institutes are maintaining a good reputation and others that aren't.

And it would be a good place to ask for information from people currently working in institutes.

[Roger]

It's my experience too - once you stay with the same employer they display signs of slack and lack of care.
Giving them the thumbs-up is encouraging them to become complacent.
Besides, these criteria are so terribly subjective; what's more we are subjective, and so are our employers.
Sometimes a teacher hits it off well without any effort; sometimes his best efforts cbackfire.

Every single school deserves flak and, probably, some plaudits.
It's best to name them all, and to say what caused you headaches and what made you happy!

[merlin]

I'll have to side with Dave on this one and see it from his shoes.

A forum is a forum - valuable stuff with some sense of permanence should be separate or risk gettinglost in the fluff. Such a forum would have to be heavily moderated, but by who? Who is qualified to judge the TRUTH about all schools in a country?

Dave would really have to do some heavy altering of the forum program to make it work in iven a half-azzed way.

Then there is the problem of TIME of course it's easy to say "Oh, just cut and paste it into the new program". When it's someone else's time but such work is tedious time-consuming. We're talking about out hundreds of entries and no way to automate it.

Then there's the point that Dave's got a successful thing going so he's much less likely to experiment. Why take the risk when things work fine as they do?

well, that's how I imagine he sees it. I'm probably wrong, though.