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The row over prime minister Gordon Brown not being the nicest boss in the world is already just a distant memory. However, a couple of days before the story broke the ever helpful Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS for short) launched a free online tool which provides advice for bosses of small teams on how to manage their employment law obligations.
Bosses are divided into four types: starting out, focussed on business, the delegator and covered and confident. We’re not sure which of those lot is the best euphemism for bully. But surely had the PM taken a couple of minutes away from running the country to work out how best to manage the ever irksome problem of keeping employees happy none of this unpleasantness would have happened. Gordon, why oh why didn’t you just read your own web site? Still, we can’t help wondering if whoever at BIS decided the project should simply be titled ‘Which boss are you?’ knew something that the rest of us only found out later.
Dot not dash
A book review makes its way onto the pages of e.learning age this month. Published at the end of last year, Kenneth Fee’s book Delivering e-learning is all about… oh well read the review on page 16 for yourself. Naturally the first place you turn is the index where you will find two references to e.learning age. The second one quite rightly points out that Kenny’s article Paint the bigger picture was first published here in June 2007. Gosh doesn’t time fly?
We were even more intrigued by the first reference on page 13, where he spends a couple of paragraphs discussing how to spell e-learning.
No, bear with him; this is all very interesting. After going through the various permutations he adds: “And the leading British journal on the subject idiosyncratically spells it e.learning (to be fair, this is a branding foible that does not extend to the spelling in the body of the journal).”
We like ‘the leading British journal’, but ‘branding foible’? Still, we’ll let Kenny off as it’s good to see another e.learning age protégée doing so well.