Archive for April, 2009

Warwick Word 2007 fix

Friday, April 17th, 2009

There seems to be a problem on ITS windows machines at the moment where trying to do nearly anything in Word (even pasting content into the page, or attempting to print it), results in Word complaining that “The Macros in this project are disabled”. Until ITS presumably release a fix soon, you can fix this now by:

  1. Enabling the “Developer” tab in the ribbon – Open Word Options from the menu which is opened by clicking on the circular thing in the top left. Under “Popular” options should be “Show developer tab on the ribbon”. Enable it.
  2. Open the Document Tempalates dialogue – it’s under the developer tab.
  3. Disable the addins – On the templates tab, uncheck both the “MathType Commands 6 for Word” and “MathPage” Global Templates and Add-ins.

And you should be done! Yay!

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HYS / Abolishing SATs

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

I know that ill-informed and stupid comments on HYS are a fact of life which are nearly as mundane to point out as the colour of the sky, but sometimes I just can’t help it.

With the recent news that the NUT wishes to boycott SATs this year, the right-minded British public shared some of its thoughts here. And they’re just not getting the point:

Boycotting SATs does not mean that teachers wish to abolish all assessment for Primary school students, only to abolish the ridiculous SAT system which only pressures headteachers and teachers to narrow the range of primary education to focus only on those areas assessed by SATs. Assessing student attainment is good, but compromising a broad education for the sake of very specific maths, science and english question answering skills is, frankly, ridiculous.

Also, Mr BAZ S of Scotland: the tax payer is exactly who should /not/ have a say in this. Taxpayers know dick.

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