Rachel has never received a violation from the federal aviation administration during her flying career. Rachel must be a great pilot. Which of the following can be said about the reasoning above?A) The definition of the terms creates ambiguityB) The argument uses circular reasoningC) The argument uses analogyD) The argument is built upon hidden assumptionsE) [...]
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School-leavers who can’t add up cost taxpayers £2bn a year, report says
Children who leave school innumerate cost the taxpayer more than £2bn a year, research has found.
A report by consultants KPMG published today estimates the long term costs of so many children leaving school unable to add up could be as high as £44,000 per person up to the age of 37. This adds up to [...]
Lessons from Anne Frank
The Anne Frank Trust is teaching today’s youngsters about personal responsibility and human rights
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Anne Frank’s legacy helps deprived children overcome prejudice and racism
The diary of Anne Frank, claimed to be the most widely read piece of non-fiction apart from the Bible, still resonates in the 21st century. In a corner of west London, a charity, the Anne Frank Trust, is using the powerful story of the Jewish teenager’s years in hiding in a warehouse attic in Nazi-occupied [...]
Further education colleges respond to plan to raise school leaving age to 18
Colleges would cautiously welcome an immediate raising of the school leaving age to 18 – although fitting all the extra students in could be tricky at first, further education principals said today.
Further education colleges rather than school sixth forms will probably take most of the strain if the government brings forward its plans to lift [...]
Have the wheels come off the vehicle of research?
Academics that court the media are often disdained by their peers.
They are accused of neglecting proper research in favour of consorting with the media to get maximum publicity for their findings, however weak they may be.
Largely, complaints are unjustified – it’s important that researchers explain their findings to the wider world. More often than not, [...]
UK maths failures ‘cost £2.4bn’
Children who are bad at maths at school end up costing the taxpayer up to £2.4bn a year, research suggests.
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3,500 pupils suspended for sexual bullying
Groping and sexist name-calling are a shocking part of school life for many pupils, with 3,500 suspended for sexual misconduct in a year, say new statistics.
The department for children, schools and families (DCSF) also showed that 260 of the pupils suspended for sexual misconduct in 2006-07 were still at primary school.
Sexist bullying in the playground [...]
Ofsted crackdown on dull teaching
Ofsted announces a crackdown on boring teaching as a way of tackling disruptive behaviour in the classroom.
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Online tools such as Facebook and Skype help parents stalk student children
Helicopter parents who hover over their children’s lives long after they leave home are now turning to social networking sites to keep in touch with their offspring and meddle in their university life from afar, a new survey has found.
According to a government commissioned poll published today, three-quarters of parents believe the latest technologies make [...]