Teachers Pest Top Health Official Sacked
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THE chief medical officer of HealthQuest, the medical screening body for all public servants, has been sacked after telling the Education Department a teacher it intended employing was being investigated by police for defamatory website postings about him.
An external investigation by the former NSW Police deputy police commissioner David Madden found that Dr Peter Dodwell [...]
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 [...]
Is a new language programme being rushed in
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The government’s new quickie courses for teaching foreigners just as much English as they require to work seems like an efficient idea. But does it really take half the time to teach someone to speak only work-related English as it does to teach them English for life in general?That’s the obvious question raised by the [...]
Call for more holistic approach to HE
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Universities will be urged to nourish students’ souls as well as their minds and wallets at the Guardian Higher Education summit in London next week.Today’s students are as interested in their own personal development as they are in learning about their subject or getting a well-paid job, university and student leaders will say.
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They will argue [...]
