by TonyB on February 1, 2012
A while back, the good people at the excellent Quo Vadis blog wrote about a question online retailers hear all the time: What’s the deal with shipping charges?
Hopefully they won’t mind if we follow in their footsteps because our customers outside the UK often want to know the same thing.
Let me just start by saying that shipping charges are as much a point of frustration for us as they are for you. The whole idea behind Tiger Pens is to offer great pens at great prices. Anything that adds to the cost of our pens – and inconveniences our customers – is a hindrance we don’t want.
Unfortunately, shipping charges are a necessary evil. Read More –>
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by TonyB on January 26, 2012
OK, we’re understanding people, we really are. But the Guardian has published a piece that puts forth the idea students are so unused to writing by hand that it stresses them out to do so on exams.
C’mon…seriously?
From the Guardian:
For the moment it seems that the pen and paper are here to stay, but examiners are aware of the strain written tests place upon students. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, English tutor at Oxford University, says: “Inevitably, anxiety is sometimes voiced that students are now so used to typing they can’t cope with a three-hour handwritten exam.”
Students use keyboards almost exclusively for classwork, then are required to use pens and/or pencils on written essays during exam times. Apparently, that makes their hands hurt and slows down their ability to answer questions. Read More –>
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