Grammar schools fuelling social segregation academics find
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Ministers should consider scrapping grammar schools because they have fuelled social segregation between state schools, according to government research.Allowing the 164 existing grammar schools to select according to pupils‘ abilities and allowing other schools - mostly faith schools - to run their own admissions system has created social divides between rich and poor, the report [...]
LDS leadership succession plan wellestablished
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Latter-day Saints take comfort in the fact that their church is never without leadership, even when the presiding First Presidency is dissolved upon the death of the president.
Leadership automatically shifts to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in a move formally termed “apostolic interregnum.” That [...]
Push to fix health care starts
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Mark the date: Efforts to reform Utah’s health-care system began today at 8 a.m., Jan. 30, 2008.
The complete overhaul of the state’s health-care service system would be a meridian in history as necessary to the well-being of the next generations of Utahns as learning how [...]
London Royal Marsden Hospital Ablaze; Patients Moved (Update5)
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Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) — Londons Royal Marsden Hospital was
evacuated after a fire broke out, destroying part of the roof at
a major European center for cancer treatment and research.
A section of the [...]
Whats in a name Maybe money
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The Centennial School District plans to trademark the name William Tennent High School to protect against what officials call improper use of the name.
In the meantime, the district said it’ll collaborate with a souvenir-printing business in Ohio for royalties on products bearing the high school’s name.
While board member Mark Miller said he doesn’t know of [...]
Celia Hoyles The magic numbers
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Like Bertrand Russell, for whom mathematics was “my chief source of happiness”, Celia Hoyles has always adored a subject that terrifies and repels large sections of the population. She sees life, she says, through a numerical lens and instantly appreciates the mathematical patterns in things like snails’ shells. “There’s something wonderful about logical proof,” she [...]
Letters
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Alarming failure on payIn her outline of the issues raised for schools as a consequence of the Single Status project, Louise Tickle (Equality backpay comes at a price, January 15) points out that John Sutcliffe, of the Local Government Employers, is “adamant that schools have set their own salary levels” and are therefore liable for [...]
Education in a different league
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As someone who has taught A-level students in both state and private schools, I am not at all surprised that so many students from state schools are unwilling to make applications to Oxbridge (State teachers’ views of Oxbridge stop pupils from applying, January 11).In my experience pupils in the state sector have a much more [...]
Wouldbe students checked on Facebook
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A Cambridge University admissions tutor has admitted he checks up on students applying to his college by browsing their Facebook profiles. Dr Richard Barnes, senior tutor at Emmanuel College, confessed in the college magazine.”This has been the year in which I joined Facebook,” he wrote. “I have to confess that I actually joined to see [...]
A league table to worry us all
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The results of the third phase of Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment) make interesting reading. Every three years, Pisa tests 400,000 15-year-olds from 54 countries in reading, maths and science. Like all international assessments, Pisa has methodological and statistical limitations. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), however, uses elaborate procedures to ensure [...]
