On Thursday, Harriet Harman the Equalities Minister in the UK put forward plans to allow organisations to discriminate in favour of candidates who are female or of ethnic minority.

You can watch her speech here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7475470.stm

As a woman, I would not want to be given a job with the knowledge that the reason I got it had to do with my gender rather than my professional capabilities, and I would not want my colleagues to also be thinking that.  In fact, it would put me off working anywhere with a high ratio of men to women.  I want to work somewhere because my work is appreciated, not so they can tick a box or improve their statistics.

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I will have to be brief because I feel riddled with guilt whenever I spend time doing anything other than revision.

So this is the second week of exams. Last week I did my Module 4 ICT exam, which was… well… the questions were quite reasonable, apart from the one asking me to describe the ‘behaviour’ of a computer system which threw me a bit. I was feeling great at the beginning of the exam and pacing myself well (even writing legibly!) Last year I rushed and finished in half the time and spent the remaining hour fretting because I thought I hadn’t been given all of the questions.

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I built the Britball Run website while working at Kempt.  It’s a car tour event held in the UK that raises money for various charities.  I found it quite a challenge because I don’t know much about cars, but it was a fun project nonetheless.