Now the Danes know how to do childhood
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Tomorrow is the 203rd anniversary of the birth, in the city of Odense, Denmark, of Hans Christian Andersen. Like the great fairystory teller, Denmark is fond of children. There are well-equipped playgrounds for little ones and giant skateboard runs for their seniors. The quality of childcare, and the support given to working parents, is generous. [...]
Remembering 1993 and all that
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To compare the freeing of further education colleges from municipal control 15 years ago today with the fall of the Berlin wall would be absurdly disproportionate, but is tempting. “Back in 1992 if you wanted to upgrade a secretary - bring them on to a higher salary with more responsibility - you had to apply [...]
The insiders
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The youth support team is a new tier-two, wraparound service aimed at supporting young people and families (11-19) who are clearly at risk but who wouldn’t meet the threshold for social services intervention. We are funded to reduce Neets (young people not in education, employment or training), by offering a multi-agency response.The service is all [...]
The art of becoming famous
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Unless you are aiming for a Nobel prize, a university education isn’t always the best way to become famous.Those three or four years could be better spent in a drink and drugs hell from which you later extract a harrowing memoir, or in having plastic surgery.But university is always a good place to practise future [...]
Clash of cultures
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When Keele lecturers demonstrate outside their council meeting on Thursday for the second time this year - this time swelled by lecturers from other universities - it will be about much more than saving the jobs of their colleagues.University proposals mean that 38 of the 67 academic staff at the School of Economic and Management [...]
Ministers attacked over school fields sale
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A flagship government initiative to regenerate children’s play and exercise areas has been undermined by the revelation that last year the Education Secretary and his predecessor personally agreed the sale of 19 school playing fields.Despite government promises made over the past decade that playing fields would be carefully protected, at least 187 fields have disappeared. [...]
Army offers bursaries to boost recruitment
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The British army is to introduce a bursary scheme for thousands of school leavers in an effort to boost recruitment and raise the calibre of candidates, the Guardian has learned. The scheme, which mirrors the American model where many join up to acquire qualifications, will offer %26pound;1,000 to those who sign up but first wish [...]
White workingclass the worst GCSE students study finds
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White working-class teenagers perform worse than their black and Asian classmates in GCSEs, a government-backed study has found.White 16-year-olds from poorer backgrounds make the least progress at secondary school of any ethnic or national group, the research, published today by Warwick University, argues.Living in poverty, rented accommodation and deprived neighbourhoods has a worse effect on [...]
Grenadian student gets top academic marks
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ST GEORGE%26rsquo;S, Grenada: Dr Clarice Modeste-Curwen, Grenada%26rsquo;s Minister of Tourism and Chair of the Government%26rsquo;s Monitoring Committee with St George%26rsquo;s University, joined Chancellor Charles Modica in honouring the accomplishments of SGU%26rsquo;s Grenada Scholarship students who performed excellently in their tough academic program. Roggie Reason achieved top marks in his first year comprehensive examination out of [...]
Jamaica to lead the way in training on intellectual property
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KINGSTON, Jamaica: Jamaica is set to lead the region in the development of training programmes and various educational tools, designed for target groups in the creative industries and which address the management of intellectual property. Seminars addressing this and other related areas have already been conducted with the assistance of representatives of the Technical Assistance [...]
