Kennedy Returns Home To Recuperate From Brain Surgery
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After recovering for a week from brain surgery, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was released from the hospital Monday.
Doctors for the 76 year-old Massachusetts Democrat are pleased with Kennedy’s progress since his June 2 operation, and he will continue to recuperate at his Hyannis Port home before starting radiation treatments and chemotherapy, according to a statement [...]
Isaac Rosenberg The Making of a Great War Poet#58; A New Life by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
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Which of all the British poets came from the most deprived background? Thomas
Traherne? William Blake? John Clare? Robert Burns? Almost certainly the
correct answer is Isaac Rosenberg, who was born into a family of
Yiddish-speaking Lithuanian Jewish immigrants in 1890. His father was a
pedlar; his mother took in washing and sold fancy needlework. The first
London home they [...]
Keep Big Brother out of the classroom says union
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The new president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) will warn of an impending Orwellian education system at the first day of the union’s annual conference in Torquay today.Targets, testing, league tables, inspections and increasing use of camera surveillance in classrooms could lead to “Big Brother watching over schools in the next five [...]
Theres no shame in striving for excellence
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Excellence is good, elitism is bad was the overwhelming message from all sides of a politically diverse panel at a debate hosted this week by Education Guardian and the thinktank Agora on whether “elite” should cease to be a dirty word. It was obvious from the start that a panel who had studied at “elite” [...]
Kennedy Holds Hearing On College Affordability, Student Loan Availability
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KENNEDY HOLDS U.S. SENATE FIELD HEARING IN BOSTON ON COLLEGE ACCESS AND THE IMPACT OF THE CREDIT CRUNCH ON STUDENT LOAN AVAILABILITY
“ENSURING ACCESS TO COLLEGE IN A TURBULENT ECONOMY” AT NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
BOSTON, MA- Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, today chaired a [...]
A reader recommends
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Never judge a book by its cover. The latest edition of A Manual for Governing Bodies and Their Clerks landed on my desk last week with a thump, and I must admit that I didn’t exactly rush to rip it open.The guide, published by Information for School and College Governors (ISCG), is quite a weighty [...]
Centre stage
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It started with a drink. Just a quick one late at night in one of the campus hotels on the edge of Coventry that Warwick University uses to put up visiting academics and staff members who live some distance away. “We love a good gossip about politics after an evening at the keyboard,” David Thomas, [...]
Colleges soon big enough to go out on their own
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Amid the frenzy of excitement about Labour’s funding arrangements, the latest education bill has slipped virtually unnoticed into the parliamentary lists.The only bit of the education and skills bill that has interested the media so far is the raising of the leaving age. The spotlight has not settled yet on another clause near the end [...]
Reprieve defies hard facts for small schools
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Rural schools are a bit like rural post offices. Everybody loves them, especially in BBC costume dramas, but few use them. Most of us now live in city, town and suburb. Even in France, where the countryside lobby is more powerful than in Britain, villages steadily lose their local services as populations dwindle and car [...]
Dont close rural schools says Knight
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Schools minister Jim Knight is writing to all local authorities in England to remind them that they should not close rural schools, it emerged today.The move comes after a campaign to prevent the closure of rural schools, a reaction to government guidance issued in December which told local education authorities to prioritise the removal of [...]
