2016 Almanac

Our 2016 Almanac has just been published. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=260

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\"Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.\" - Salvador Dali (1904â€"1989) More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=259

MWLS Newsletter

The December issue of our newsletter is now available. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=258

Introduction to Research Methods in Education

Paperback/eBook. Offers a highly accessible, clear and engaging introduction to research in education.

It has been carefully and extensively developed to fully meet the needs of those studying in education and related fields. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=257

MWLS Newsletter

November edition is now available... More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=256

Mediterranean diet slows brain ageing

A Columbia University study, published by the journal Neurology, shows that people following a Mediterranean-like diet had a larger brain volume than those who didn’t. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=255

Research Methods in Education

Encompasses the whole range of methods currently employed by educational research at all stages. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=254

New Quote

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid - Albert Einstein More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=253

Newsletter

Our October newsletter is now available. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=252

Too much TV, Internet and computer games associated with poorer GCSE grades

In a recent study, researchers found that pupils doing an extra hour of daily homework and reading performed significantly better than their peers. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=251

Curriculum Provision for the Gifted and Talented in the Secondary School

Practical help for teachers in making day-to-day provision for the able in their classroom. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=250

Online version of Managing the Training Process

An online version of Managing the Training Process is now available. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=249

Calculator ban 'improves maths'

New government figures suggest a record number of children are passing maths tests at 11 thanks to classroom calculator ban. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=247

Cookies on MWLS.com

Recent EU legislation - the EU User Consent Policy - requires that digital publishers give visitors to their sites information about their use of cookies and other forms of local storage and that consent be obtained.

To this end, we are placing a consent notice on our website and shop. This informs our visitors that we use are own - and third-party cookies - on our sites and that continued browsing indicates consent to their use. We have tried to make this message noticeable while at the same time making the whole process unintrusive. The first page that you open in a browsing session will display this notice. You can hide it by clicking the \'Close\' button or you can leave it as it is and it will be automaticall hidden on all the other pages that you visit during the same session.

We use session cookies to:

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Session cookies expire when you leave our website.

We use one permanent cookie to remember that you clicked the \'Close\' button on the cookie notice. Isn\'t it ironic that we only use a permanent cookie because of EU cookie legislation?

We also a third-party advertising company (Google AdWords) to serve advertisements which help pay for the running of our websites. Google may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. You can opt out of being served these \'double-click\' cookies by Google by visiting www.google.co.uk/privacy_ads.html. If you would like more information about this practice and would like to know your options in relation to·not having this information used by these companies, please go to www.doubleclick.com/privacy/faq.aspx.

We keep customers\' order details, names, email and delivery addresses on secure databases. These details are used only for processing the orders and are never passed on to anyone else.

We also keep newletter subscribers\' names, email addresses, format preferences, date subscribed and application IPN. These details are used only formailing newsletters and preventing spamming and are never passed on to anyone else. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=246

MWLS August Newsletter

Our August newsletter is now available. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=245

Why dividing by 1/2 is the same as multiplying by 2

Many children - and some adults - find it difficult to understand why dividing by 1/2 is the same as multiplying by 2. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=244

Best way to fight memory loss

A BBC team with the help of Newcastle University recruited 30 volunteers and randomly divided them into three groups and asked to do a particular activity for three hours a week for the next eight weeks. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=243

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Things are remembered together when they are similar, contrast or appear together contiguous. - Aristotle (384â€"322 B.C.) More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=242

July Newsletter

Our July newsletter has just been published. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=241

National tests for England's infants 'could return'

Ministers are planning to revive national tests for seven-year-olds in England, according to the Times Educational Supplement. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=240

University inspections face overhaul

The ways in which university watchdogs protect standards in England, Wales and Northern Ireland face a major overhaul in plans expected this week. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=239

4 in 10 students say university poor value

Four in 10 of the first students to pay higher fees do not believe their courses have been good value for money, a survey for BBC Radio 5 live suggests. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=238

Intern workday restricted to 17 hours

Goldman Sachs introduced new work hours for summer interns after Bank of America Merrill Lynch intern died from seizure induced by all-nighters. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=237

June Newsletter

Our June newsletter is now available. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=236

Online courses for sixth formers

Three free online programmes, aimed at helping sixth-formers bridge the gap between school and university, are due to launch this summer. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=235

'Dyslexia not linked to eyesight'

Research teams from Bristol and Newcastle universities say that dyslexia is not linked to any problems with eyesight. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=234

New maths GCSEs too hard

Three of the four main English exam boards had made their papers too hard, according to exams regulator Ofqual. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=232

New Quote

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=232

Free eBooks from Amazon and Apple

While I was updating my web site to make it easier to find and buy eBooks related to learning and education, I discovered - to my surprise - that both Amazon and Apple have free eBooks on their sites. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=231

Murphy's Law of Time Management

It is always difficult to predict how long any project will take - the news is full of projects that have overrun and overspent. You could estimate the time by using Murphy's Law of Time Management... More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=230

Amazon Marketplace Profit Calculator

New update reflects Royal Mail's price changes. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=229

New Icebreaker

Learning times tables can be very boring, but this card game for two players is a fun way of doing it and it will encourage the learning of times tables as a reflex action. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=228

Mobile website

We have made our website more mobile friendly. More

Shop

Our online shop has had a refit and has been given a new name - Learning Pages.

Learning obviously reflects that it is about learning and Pages emphasises that we sell other learning media in addition to books. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=226

Able pupils not stretched

English state secondary schools are not doing enough to stretch their most able students. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=225

March newslettter

Our March newsletter is now available. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=224

Believing things that are not true

The human brain is not very good when it comes to calculating the probabilty of something happening - or not happening. This is why pay-day loans can catch people out and why we are likely to invoke the supernatural when there is no need to do so. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=223

Advertising changes

We are making some changes in the way we position and charge for adverts. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=222

Why Apple developer fees have been increased

I finally got a reply from Apple about the unannounced increase in developer fees: More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=221

February newsletter

Our latest newsletter has just been published. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=220

Why are UK Customers Charged More?

Did you know that many US companies charge UK and European customers much more than their US counterparts?

We often pay for the same goods and services at a rate of one pound to the dollar. That is, we pay about £10 when a US customer pays the equivalent of about £6.50.

I was planning to join the Apple Developers' programme so that I could develop free applications for the people who visit my website until I discovered that I had to pay £60 a year before I could test applications on my own phone.

I thought that there was no point in paying this until I had some applications to test. Recently, I went back to sign up only to discover that the price had been increased to £79! US developers only pay $99 (£65) - not as bad as the exchange rate mentioned above but still unacceptable. (By the way, if you have signed up for Apple's iTunes Match for £24.99 a year, you'll be interested to learn that US customers pay $24.99).

I contacted Apple support about this and despite the fact that they aim to respond to queries within one business day, I have had no reply but I did have an email reminding me that I hadn't completed the purchase of my developer licence. So, I contacted them again using the email address in the reminder and quoting the original ticket number, but I have still had no response.

It looks as if I won't be developing iOS apps for the Apple store but I will develop web apps - the only disadvantage being that you have to be connected to the internet to use them. I can develop, test and distribute OSX applications without putting them on the Apple store and I'm currently looking at developing Android apps which can be developed, tested and distributed without joining a developer program. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=219

Amazon Marketplace Profit Calculator update

Reflects the latest changes in Amazon's fees More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=218

New Resource

Avoiding Grievances More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=217

Have social media had their day?

I've just published the first edition of my re-launched newsletter (www.mwls.com/newsletters/2015-01.php). It's been a long time since I published a newsletter - partly because I didn't have a good method for distribution, opting-in and opting-out but the main reason was that social media seemed so fashionable. So what's changed? More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=216