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Posts on ‘November 11th, 2008’
School sums don’t add up
Suspension head sees GCSEs rise
A head teacher sees results at her school improve steadily after introducing a zero-tolerance approach to discipline.
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Silvia Guglielmi: It is more important than ever to address our collective lack of economic literacy
Silvia Guglielmi: A looming recession means it is more important than ever to address our collective lack of economic literacy
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Poll: What type of school should the Obama kids attend?
Michelle Obama is visiting Washington DC schools this week. Should the Obamas choose a DC public school for their daughters, or a private school?
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Student places freeze ‘anxiety’
Universities and the government disagree over whether funding gaps will mean a freeze on extra places.
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UK universities should take online lead
UK universities should push to become world leaders in online higher education, ministers will say tomorrow, despite the failure of the UK e-University four years ago.
The universities secretary, John Denham, is likely to call not for a revival of the UKeU, which collapsed in 2004, but to develop a “global Open University in the UK”.
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Overspend on student support package was known about last year, say Tories
Ministers knew a year ago that they could not afford the generous student support package which the government was forced to scale back last week, the Tories claimed today.
The government had extended full maintenance grants to students with a household income of up to £25,000 a year (up from £17,910) and estimated that a third [...]
Prep schools will close in recession
The recession will force private prep schools to close or merge, headteachers have been warned today.
Delegates at the annual Wellington-Marlborough preparatory heads conference were given advice by Noble Hanlon, a partner at chartered accountants Haysmacintyre, about how private schools catering for five to 13-year-olds could manage the economic downturn. There are more than 1,000 in [...]
Aim school help ‘at poor whites’
White working class pupils should be given the same customised support as ethnic minorities, says a report.
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Second Life: is this the future of the academic conference?
How will the global business of academic conferences be affected by the recession? It’s a multimillion dollar question, worthy of a big conference in itself, hosted in some scenic city with good air connections.
On second thoughts, perhaps not, in the approaching era of what the vice-chancellor of Manchester University predicts will be “extraordinary stringency, [...]