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    Fair deal urged

    Learningpost, Steve Graham, Published on 29/06/2010

    » The idea of having a contract between teachers and institutions is that both parties should benefit from the security it provides. Recent contract negotiations at my university have shed some light on the lack of understanding by Thai employers of the plight of foreigners teaching in Thailand.

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    Bangkok Patana produces gold achievers

    Learningpost, Gregor McClenaghan, Published on 29/06/2010

    » A record number of students from Bangkok Patana School (BPS) completed the arduous International Award Association Gold Award programme this year.

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    Opening the mind

    Learningpost, Edward Roy Krishnan, PHD, Published on 29/06/2010

    » A new idea is the product of both "creativity" and "critical thinking". The two concepts are inextricably intertwined. If any one of these ingredients is applied in isolation, an idea may be created, but it perhaps would remain unworkable.

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    Humans unabashedly steal secrets from animals

    Learningpost, David Canavan, Published on 29/06/2010

    » There is no doubt that humans are incredible designers, architects and builders. From the Taj Mahal to the new Burj Khalifa, to the Airbus A380 to nuclear submarines, Homo sapiens are incredible. But many of our technologies were either inspired by or simply stolen from animals. In many circumstances, animals are aeons ahead of us in the building and design world.

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    Appositive experience

    Learningpost, Heather Vlach, Published on 29/06/2010

    » An appositive is a word or group of words that adds information to a sentence by renaming nouns - defining or summarising them. Appositives are an excellent tool to introduce sentence variety, giving writers more ways to combine information and embed it in a sentence.

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    Climate change negotiator

    Outlook, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 30/06/2010

    » After long hours in a closed meeting room at climate change negotiations in Bonn earlier this month, Dr Surachai Sathikunarat, a young Thai climate change negotiator, should have had peaceful coffee breaks.

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    Rocky road to success

    Mylife, Jeerasak Lakmuang, Published on 01/07/2010

    » As Thailand is facing a shortage of petroleum geologists, Chevron-CMU jointly offers a summer camp for Mathayom 5 students with an aim to grow awareness and interests in the field.

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    Producing picture-perfect phonemes

    Learningpost, Timothy Cornwall, PHD, DTM, Published on 20/04/2010

    » When I learned Japanese, one phoneme, not found in English, was nearly impossible: /tsu/, produced by placing the tongue behind the teeth as with /t/ and bringing it back as when producing /s/. Easy to produce mid-word, I never perfected it word-initial, which remains embarrassing as the name of one of my friends is Tsutomu.

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    'Garbage Island': Lost at sea

    Learningpost, David Canavan, Published on 23/03/2010

    » Have you ever wondered where the litter you dispose of every day goes? Certainly much of it goes into waste sites and, sadly, precious little is recycled, but a large amount makes it to the oceans.

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    KIS International School takes a stand

    Outlook, Published on 25/03/2010

    » Despite the blistering sunshine and high temperatures, KIS International School students, teachers, staff, parents and community members recently joined the activities of World Water Day and the World's Longest Toilet Queue Guinness World Record attempt by forming a toilet queue on their campus sports pitch that numbered 520 people strong. KIS Kindergarten class (5 to 6 years of age) was responsible for initiating the KIS World Water Day action. The class collectively decided that the only solution was to mobilise the whole school community to draw attention to the toxic conditions many children live in around the world. Kindergarteners visited every class on campus, right up to the 18-year-old diploma students, giving each class a presentation in order to educate them about World Water Day and encouraging them to join the toilet queue.

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