Faiths come together in school experiment
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It will be a faith-based school like no other; one that unites rather than segregates. Tomorrow night a group of Irish parents, religious leaders and academics will start enrolment to a unique educational experiment teaching Christians, Jews and Muslims together.They claim their school will be the first of its kind in Europe: one based on [...]
State teachers views of Oxbridge stop pupils from applying
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Teachers at state-run secondary schools are out of touch about the number of pupils from their sector who apply successfully to Oxford and Cambridge Universities, according to a survey today.More than a third think that fewer than 20% of Oxbridge students come from state schools, even though the latest figures show that the figure is [...]
All their own work
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Every August, ministers are forced to answer claims that A-levels are getting easier. Though the government counters these charges robustly, it now accepts that the exams have become an inadequate proof of readiness for university.The suggested solution is an “extended project” (EP) that young people can do in addition to their A-level subjects. And it [...]
The singing professor
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It’s show time in the antipodes. An award-winning performer strides to the front of a regular gathering, picks up an acoustic guitar and strums the opening bars to one of his folk-tinged originals. The fans gawp with undisguised pleasure - heads nodding in time, feet tapping, pens clicking.Welcome to another lecture by Warwick Murray, a [...]
A degree of deception
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There was a time when a backstreet education meant sending off a coupon in a magazine and getting back a certificate from the University of Nowhere. These quick-buck “degree mills” have given way to a much more sophisticated and lucrative kind of operation. Today’s bogus universities have fronts so elaborate and “professors” so convincing that [...]
Becta rewards the innovators
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There are speakers in every corner, one boy from Wyndcliffe school, Birmingham, explained about the school’s podcasting radio station. “They are in every room; everybody can hear it, all around the school.” Then he thought and his eyes lit up: “And all over the world!”Many other children in the past year have experienced what technology [...]
