Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
IT’S been a stormy few days for St Christopher’s School as a muddle over an A-level examination question led to howls of protests from pupils and parents caught up in the crisis.
Last week, during an English Literature exam, fifteen of our A-level students discovered that they could not answer one of questions, which counts for nearly eight per cent of their total A-level mark.
Edward Goodwin is a leader and a visionary in the true sense of the word.
You’d have thought that having done an arrested landing and assisted take of from an aircraft carrier, taken a two hour helicopter flight to an oil platform off the coast of Iraq, been acupuncturally electrocuted and done barrels, loops and flown upside down in a single propeller carbon fibre box, giving blood would be a piece of cake, but when my son asked me why I was doing it I was hard pushed to think of an answer.
Seeing blood in real life is not easy. Most of my friends, other than my doctor friends, grimace at the very thought.
