Moving on up
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With hordes of big kids, dozens of new teachers and a sprawling campus of confusing corridors to contend with, an 11-year-old just starting secondary school is bound to feel very small. Almost two-thirds of pupils attend schools with more than 1,000 pupils on the roll, while the number being educated in giant schools of over [...]
Noidling zone Schools urge drivers to cut pollution by turning off buses cars
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As you gaze into the gunk blanketing Wasatch Front valleys, take heart: Schools are working to help clean it up with a simple turn of a key.
Washington, Salt Lake City and Cache school districts are piloting a program, expected to go national next year, to [...]
Capuccino complaints
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Four young mothers are sitting at the next table in Starbucks. “She’s just not motivating them,” says one. “He says she’s boring,” says another. “I’m going to have to go to the head about her,” says a third. “She can’t be any good for the league tables.” It rapidly becomes clear that they’re talking about [...]
Faster higher stronger the Olympian challenge facing school sports
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Of all the grand ambitions attached to the 2012 Olympics, the worthiest is the commitment to inspire future generations of children into sport and an indolent nation into activity. The promise was at the heart of Sebastian Coe’s pitch to the International Olympic Committee and, delivered with 30 children from east London at his side [...]
More money to make universities green
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The government’s push to make universities more environmentally friendly has been bolstered with %26#163;290m for sustainable building projects.The Higher Education Funding Council for England announced yesterday %26#163;2.4bn in capital funding for universities’ teaching, research and infrastructure over the next three years.The allocations include %26#163;1.1bn for capital projects in learning and teaching and %26#163;1.3bn for research, [...]
McTraining and real education
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Rowenna Davis (Mc A-levels will produce mere cogs in the machine) seems to suggest that while “corporations won’t waste time asking the bigger questions” traditional institutions will. I am not so sanguine.It is over 20 years since philosophy of education disappeared from the curricula of teacher training institutions. The last thing the government wanted was [...]
Learning on the job
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What are the rascals going to get their corporate clutches on next? When councils are weighed down with PFI bills, and when the NHS is paying for private operations that are not carried out, it is a reasonable question to ask. The fear that education would fall prey to the profiteers emerged yesterday after it [...]
Braille best
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Tap, tap, tap … ding.
The noise is similar to a typewriter, but it’s a Perkins Braille writer.
It’s what 40 visually impaired students used Friday at the Utah Braille Challenge at the Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Salt [...]
UVSC institute teacher and students hail class about President Hinckley
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OREM Students have been streaming in and out of Karen Hepworth’s office at the Orem Institute of Religion steadily since she got to work Monday. Just when the flood of in-person visits lets up, the phone starts ringing.
Hepworth teaches a course at the institute based [...]
Gates Donates 30 Million to on Education Campaign (Update1)
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Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) — Bill Gates is spending $30 million on
the U.S. presidential campaign for a cause, not a candidate. The
worlds richest man plans to make education the No. 1 domestic
priority with voters.
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