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Labour education U-turn scraps Sats tests for 14-year-olds
Twelve years after it was instituted, the stage three tests in the UK for 14-year-olds has been scrapped. It's a U-turn for Labour, which has supported the reforms, instituted by the Tories in the early '90s, for many years. The tests were a crucial part in determining a...TYC - EDUCATION - OXYMORON?
Most people who are familiar with the Texas Youth Commission (TYC), know that education and TYC is indeed a oxymoran. A recently released, detailed report about the statewide education program in TYC verified that youth are provided with a poor education. Many were well...
France - Family of teacher who hanged himself speaks out
This is the follow-up to a story reported here on NP a couple of weeks ago.For the first time the father of Jean-Luc Bubert has broken his silence and spoken to the French media.Bubert was the teacher who hanged... France - Teacher left bloodied and bruised as pupil hits out
There has been a heated debate in the media here in France over the past few days over behaviour in the classroom and in particular the problems of discipline following an incident last week in which a teacher was... Those who can, do
"There’s a common saying out there that I’ve heard a lot. It goes “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” First of all, I’m entirely unsure if the commas I wrote in that statement are appropriately placed and it’s far too difficult to write, so I...'I can see dinosaurs from my back porch'
"'I can see dinosaurs from my back porch' * Track this topic * Print story * Post comment Palin-tology and the threat to science teaching By George Smith, Dick Destiny • Get more from this author Posted in Government, 26th September 2008 12:29 GMT GOP Veep... Finnish deaths spark gun law call
A day after the horrific school schooting in Finland, the seconf big attack in just a short time, politicians are questioning Finland's gun control policy. Finland's gun laws are among the most permissive in Europe. In fact, Finland has the highest level of gun ownership per... Burma's secret schools of dissent
READING, WRITING, MATH? Burmese monks are adopting teaching methods used in secret refugee schools in Thailand, to break out from robotic learning in state schools. " Mae Sot, Thailand; and Rangoon, Burma - Deep in... Not quite a French "Cold Case" - but almost
A teacher, accused of hitting one of his pupils, commits suicide.One of the most watched programmes on French television at the moment is the US import "Cold Case" in which each week Detective Lilly Rush (played by... UDATED : Head teacher kills boy who answered back
Updated with some facts from US on corporal punishment------Another story from India on school's abusing pupil's rights this coming at atime when some in the UK are asking for the return of corporal punishment in... Prof Ralph Russell - the British Baba-i-Urdu - Passes Away
Prominent Urdu scholar, Professor Ralph Russell,Head of Urdu department, Oriental and African Studies, UK, passed away. His death is a huge loss to the Urdu language. Among Russell’s many famous works is his... Double your rockin' with Rock Band 2
I am a product of the Atari Generation. My first video game was Pong. I've been playing video games for a quarter of a century. However, my wife, who is nine years younger than me, vaguely remembers Sega Genesis. She... Parkinson drugs turned headmaster into paedophile
A headmaster with thousands of indecent pictures of children on his computer has been aquited after a judge ruled that the drugs he was taking to combat Parkinson's disease turned him into a paedophile."A former headmaster who amassed thousands of indecent images of children...Chinese rapist teacher executed
A rapist teacher in China has been hanged after he was found to have raped and sexually harassing 39 girls. " China executed a school headmaster in north-west Gansu province for raping and sexually harassing 39 girls in the last 18 years. The teacher Luo Yanlin, 48...Record number of schools opened in England
The highest number of schools in 30 years were opened in England this term, according to new figures. The number, 180, is including both brand new and refurbished schools."In total 180 new school buildings have been completed in England this term - the highest number for...
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