The personal jetpack is such a wonderful idea. Comedian Paul Merton constantly longs for one, and though engineers have been building alarmingly dodgy versions since the 1940s, we still don’t have one that we can strap on to go to work.
So many things in life are like that – seductive, desirable – but not yet proven in day-to-day use.
Take performance-related pay (PRP), for example. In January I wrote about the problem of trying to reduce the rich spectrum of a teacher’s work to a set of measurable results (See http://bit.ly/1nSPQQQ).
Now, of course PRP is here and the challenge is to see it operated wisely, legally and equitably, in line with the plentiful advice available from professional associations and, of course in these very pages.
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