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02 September, 2010 23:01
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School lotteries fail to help poorer pupils
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
The best schools are still monopolised by the middle classes even when a lottery is used to help allocate places, researchers have found Photograph: John Alex Maguire/Rex Features Middle-class families monopolise the best schools even when a lottery is used to allocate places, according to a study published todayLotteries have been seen by some educationists...
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02 September, 2010 20:50
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USA > Education
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Maths prodigy, now 15, heads for Cambridge
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
At 15 and three months, Arran Fernandez is set to become the youngest Cambridge undergraduate since William Pitt the Younger was offered a place Photograph: PA At 15, most teenagers are struggling to get their heads around the algebra and equations of maths GCSE Not Arran FernandezNext month, he will become the youngest student at Cambridge University...
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02 September, 2010 16:49
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USA > Education
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Margaret Way
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
kept in touch with a large number of her former pupils My great-aunt , who has died aged 92, taught speech and drama in Taunton, Somerset, for more than 60 years and was an integral figure in the performing arts community thereBorn in Taunton, she took a three-year course when she left school at 17, and began teaching elocution, speech and drama...
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02 September, 2010 08:00
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USA > Education
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Degrees in lap-dancing? | Deborah Orr
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
One in four lap-dancers have degrees Photograph: Chris Rout/Alamy Earlier in the summer there were rumblings of rage at the recent trend towards educating half the population to degree level This expansion appears to have spawned the disagreeable but predictable consequence that university qualifications have been devalued Then, more recently, the...
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02 September, 2010 06:00
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USA > Education
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Schools must earn poor pupil payment, charity tells education secretary Gove
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Jeevan Vasagar, Education editor The Guardian, Thursday 2 September 2010 Schools would be expected to give priority to poorer children when admitting new pupils and judged on the extent to which they narrow the gap between disadvantaged youngsters and their better-off classmates under plans submitted to government by an influential charityIn proposals...
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01 September, 2010 16:55
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USA > Education
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Margaret Gray
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
was not a woman who wasted time, as witnessed by her alarming speed up to and in between traffic lights , who has died aged 97, was head of the Godolphin and Latymer school in Hammersmith, west London, from 1963 to 1973 Her ability to listen to and empathise with the girls, especially the younger ones, made her the kind of head every school wantsFor...
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01 September, 2010 12:15
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USA > Education
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Six to watch: TV schools
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
New term, old decor: headteacher Karen Fisher (Amanda Burton) with Harry Fisher (Ceallach Spellman), Charlie Fisher (Ian Puleston-Jones) and Jess Fisher (Linzey Cocker) Photograph: Shed/BBC This week the nation's kids return to school, all bright-eyed and smelling of hope Ditto the cast of Waterloo Road – basically Holby City for former soap actors...
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01 September, 2010 11:13
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USA > Education
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Schools converting to academies in September 2010
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guardiancouk, Wednesday 1 September 2010 1213 BST Queen Elizabeth's School, BarnetKemnal Technology College (part of the Kemnal Trust), BromleyBrine Leas High School, Cheshire EastFallibroome High School, Cheshire EastSt Buryan Primary School, CornwallSeaton Infant School, CumbriaBroadclyst Community Primary School, DevonUffculme School, DevonCuckoo...
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01 September, 2010 10:14
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USA > Education
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Imperial College to open school in Singapore
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
Imperial College London's school of medicine Photograph: John Li/Getty Images Imperial College London is to set up a new medical school in Singapore in the latest move by an elite British university to establish a presence in AsiaJointly run by Imperial and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, the medical school will teach over 750 students...
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01 September, 2010 10:10
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USA > Education
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School dinners or a packed lunch?
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
Dinner time at Ysgol Deganwy in Conwy, north Wales Photograph: Christopher Thomond It may not have felt like much of a summer but school's back this week and in a few days the autumn term will officially start; new shoes are being bought, PE kit labelled, and unopened book-bags and forgotten homework unearthed from the deep recesses of children's...
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01 September, 2010 09:32
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USA > Education
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140 schools to become academies this year
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
A pupil at Nottingham Academy Photograph: Fabio De Paola for the Guardian Over 140 schools are expected to convert to academy status in the coming school year after the government passed a new law to allow every school in England to opt out of local authority controlA total of 32 are expected to open as academies this month It is understood that the...
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01 September, 2010 09:02
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USA > Education
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From the archive, 1 September 1930: Obituary: Dr WA Spooner
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The Guardian, Wednesday 1 September 2010 The death occurred at Oxford on Friday evening of Dr William Archibald Spooner, who was for twenty-one years Warden of New College, OxfordDr Spooner was born on July 22 1844, and was the son of a Staffordshire County Court judge He was educated at Oswestry and New College, of which he became a scholar in 1862...
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01 September, 2010 05:00
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USA > Education
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Girls think they are cleverer than boys from age four, study finds
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
Children raise their hands in school Boys may be encouraged to think they will underperform, a study has found Photograph: Rex Features Girls think they are cleverer, more successful and harder working than boys from as young as four, a study has foundBoys come round to this view by the age of seven or eight and assume that girls will outperform them...
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31 August, 2010 16:51
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USA > Education
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Stephen Wall obituary
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
Stephen Wall was an inspiring teacher of English The achievements of Stephen Wall, who has died after a lung infection aged 79, were exceptional for their humane generosity As a literary historian and a critic of the Victorian novel, pre-eminently of Trollope and Dickens; as a reviewer – at once welcoming and discriminating – of new fiction and of...
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31 August, 2010 11:30
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USA > Education
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Faith in science is not enough – people deserve proof | Alom Shaha
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
guardiancouk, Tuesday 31 August 2010 1230 BST I am an evangelist But instead of spreading the gospel or any other religious message, I spend my time trying to share the knowledge of what I believe to be humanity's greatest cultural achievement: science There is a more mundane term for what I do – "science communication" It's a horrible term, smacking...
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31 August, 2010 10:37
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USA > Education
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JK Rowling gives ?10m to set up multiple sclerosis research clinic
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
JK Rowling has given ?10m to set up a clinic researching multiple sclerosis treatments Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP The author JK Rowling has donated ?10m to set up a clinic to research treatments for multiple sclerosis, the degenerative disease that killed her mother at the age of 45, it was announced todayThe Anna Rowling regenerative neurology...
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31 August, 2010 07:30
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USA > Education
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University architecture shapes up for a revolution
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
The new school of architecture at Lincoln University Photograph: Rick Mather Architects Student hostels aren't hotels", says Professor Mike Neary, "nor are university campuses business parks" That, though, is what they have been in danger of turning into over the last decade, says Neary, political sociologist, dean of teaching and learning, and director...
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31 August, 2010 07:15
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USA > Education
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Secondary school: how parents can help make the transition easier
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
Parents: stick to the uniform code, and your child will feel more comfortable at secondary school Photograph: Garry Weaser for the Guardian For families of year 6s, the summer holidays can seem like a long run-up to that great mountain of mystery and fear that is big school Some children will be starting a new school that is 10 times larger than their...
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31 August, 2010 06:00
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USA > Education
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Singing workshop offers world-class tuition with a different beat
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Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
Participants get into the swing of the Jewish niggun lesson at the Tribe of Doris convention Photograph: Jim Wileman Stomping across a sopping wet field towards a blue-and-white striped tent called the Harmony House, I suddenly realise I'm not feeling all that keen on the singing workshop I'm booked in forIn fact, I want to run away and hide in the...
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