We can use trim to strip whitespace from the beginning and end of a string, but how can we add whitespaces into a string?
You can get an array from a string first and use a loop to add whitespaces. Here you go an easy way
implode(‘ ‘,str_split($tring));
Guardian reported that “universities are producing too many graduates, leaving more than a million people in jobs for which they are over-qualified, according to research by employers” a few days ago.
It’s a very interesting report. It started off by telling us that there won’t be enough jobs for over-qualified graduates, but moved on to the discussion of the lack of graduates quality at a sudden.
Many graduates left university with inadequate communication and language abilities or even the ability to “get up in the morning”
Yes, I do agree. At least, I am struggling to get up at 7am every morning. I would think that the fixed working hour forced myself to have a pleasant timetable everyday and I could get quite a lot of things done in the morning. On the other hand, I am worried that it might kill my creativity, because I do feel that I am kind of managed by such a rigid society rule. I would not be able to make the best use of my time when necessary. I might just start to follow what it requires me to do, instead of aim to change the society as I dreamed to do so in school. For me, it takes several years to get rid of the big label “graduates” and then possibly I can ask for or lead a change in my small community. By that time, maybe I would have already forgoten my dream and started to criticise the typical students’ behaviour. I hope this won’t happen to me.
What I can confirmed now is that I have alredy forgotten my dream in my childhood. I can only remember that I have told myself that I would never try to behaviour like an adult when I am a grown-up. I should always take care of childrend from their point of view when I am a grown-up. I cannot remember what kind of adult behaviour I was refering to when I was small. I was trying to recall all these on my train journey to work today, but I just couldn’t remember any. What a shame!
On today’s Guardian, Anthea Lipsett reported that BA’s new report claimed the universities should consider increasing the number of interdisciplinary centres focused on public policy and promoting academics in this research area. Humanities and the social scociences have not be able to put a sufficient influence on public policy-making. The report, from a working group chaired by Professor Sir Alan Wilson, has made 20 recommendations to boost the impact of humanities and social sciences research and to build links between academics and government.
I am not a workaholic, but I tend to do a lot of things at the same time. For being able to manage to get several things done, I have to sacrifice my time with family and friends. For this month, I got several big deadlines to meet, I have done all of them by today. At this point, I can say well done to myself. I can note down “survived” to respond to my diary on 7th September. However, this was not like the school year anymore – I finished end-year exams and I got a two-month summer holiday. I got several tasks lined up, right after these big deadlines. I needed to get into work and try to work out the priority immediately.
No matter how many tasks I got, I started to adjust my work-life balance. I wasn’t born for work and I don’t want my future to be tied up with work as well. I have more important things to do in my life. Career is down at the bottom of my to-do list, and would never rise up to be the top priority for me.
I think this is interesting to discuss. Once I can have a career, I would think of other more important things to do. If I cannot have a good career, I sometimes would put this urgently into my agenda. With regard to this, I would strongly disagree about the discrimination given to work women. I think it’s not because of the workload, we are not lovely. It’s our attitude towards work, which could determine our attractiveness. I’ve learned that either I control my attitude or it controls me. I am enjoying what I am doing everyday, and I appreciate all these. I would give more time to the ones I love.
info from my colleague
There is a podcast and a quiz to find out more about the Trends Shaping Education. You might find it useful.
