Deprived white boys inspired by ripping yarns, Ofsted says
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White boys from deprived backgrounds need action-packed stories about danger or sport to inspire them in lessons, Ofsted, the education regulator, said yesterday. They do worse at school than any other group, which has increased concerns that white, working-class boys are becoming an educational underclass.
Advice on how schools should engage with such pupils was published [...]
16 Years Of Striving For Schools
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Coen is known among board members as someone who has made a concerted effort to understand education policies and curriculum and how those fit locally and nationally. She has attended a number of national education and school board conferences and chaired a task force on urban student achievement for the Council of Urban Boards of [...]
Ymci Wants Media Education In Schools
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As the world marks the African Child today, Youth Media and Communication Initiative, (YMCI) an international organisation dedicated to children and media has called for the introduction of media education into the school curriculum in Nigeria as a way of giving voice to children. In a statement to mark the Day of the African Child, [...]
Parliament Passes Education Law
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Slovak Parliament approved an Act on Education and Training that was drafted by the Education Ministry with the aim of revamping the school system. The new Act will substitute 20-year-old legislation that was introduced in the former communist Czechoslovakia.
Innovations at schools will be introduced via new curricula as the key element of the reforms. The [...]
New Iti Curriculum To Link Education With Jobs
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The Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) will no longer impart routine educational degrees, which have become occupationally irrelevant in the industry. The industry demand will now decide the curriculum, as the ITIs will impart those skills to their students, which are required by the industry. It will make job availability easier for the students after they [...]
51Job Gets The Job Done
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China’s 51job (Nasdaq: JOBS) is getting pretty good at this quarterly performance review. The company behind the job-listings website and the 51job Weekly employment classifieds publication, which serves nearly two dozen Chinese provinces, delivered another strong quarter last night.
Revenue climbed 18% to $33.7 million. Earnings, after backing out share-based compensation and a foreign exchange hit, [...]
Cameras rolling at Abu Dhabi film school
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Hollywood Reporter) - Budding
students of cinema can now enroll for study in an unlikely new
destination for film — the capital of the United Arab
Emirates.
The New York Film Academy in Abu Dhabi, which opened its
doors in February, is the latest addition to a multilayered
push by the oil capital to reinvent [...]
Film helps bullies learn their lesson
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The movie can be viewed at a web site.
Directed by Australian filmmaker Christopher Faull, the movie offers an emotional story that involves boys and girls. As the drama unfolds, it becomes painfully clear how seemingly minor rumors or incidents can escalate for the victims, especially with the help of cell phones and the Internet.
Franklin will [...]
The Bard #45; as they like it
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If we are to believe a recent survey commissioned for the National Year of
Reading, Shakespeare is as appetising to children as cod liver oil or
madrigals. For 11 to 14-year-olds, the celebrity gossip magazine Heat and
the teenage girls’ mag Bliss top the polls. Their least favourite reading is
%26ldquo;homework, closely followed by the dramatist whom I recall [...]
The Top Stories
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1 Pupils have been increasingly using excuses such as the death of a pet
and headaches to win extra marks in their exams, according to the
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
2 More than 23,000 elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease could be dying
prematurely in care homes each year after having been given drugs to keep
them quiet, a report by [...]
