Posts Tagged ‘school’

Taliban Denies Role in Poison Attacks

Sunday, May 27th, 2012

On schoolgirls.

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Taliban Denies Role in Poison Attacks

Dawkins backs school Bible plan

Saturday, May 26th, 2012

Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins says he supports the plan to put a Bible in every English school.

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School buildings plans announced

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

The government has announced 261 schools in England will receive money from a school building fund.

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City Room: Man Claims Role in Disappearance of Etan Patz, Police Say

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

The suspect made remarks implicating himself in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz, the 6-year-old boy who vanished in SoHo on his way to school and who is believed to have been killed, the police said on Thursday.

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£32m targeted at deprived pupils

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Schools are to receive a share of £32.4m in funding to help the least well-off pupils, based on the number eligible for free meals.

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Romney Calls Failing Schools ‘Civil Rights Issue of Our Era’

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Mitt Romney called for poor and disabled students to be able to use federal funds to attend any public, private or online school they choose.

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Romney Calls Failing Schools ‘Civil Rights Issue of Our Era’

Teenager held after boy collapses

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

A 14-year-old schoolboy is arrested after another 14-year-old boy collapsed after an altercation at a Glasgow school.

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Call for school speaking lessons

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

The shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg has called for all state school pupils to be given lessons in public speaking and interview techniques.

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Schools ‘on track’ for new exams

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

A report into controversial changes to the Scottish secondary school exam system concludes they are on track to be fully implemented on time.

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Schools ‘on track’ for new exams

Body of missing Harvard student found

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

The desperate search in Portland, Maine, for a Harvard Business School student missing since Sunday ended in heartbreak after his body was found just days before he was to graduate.

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Schools saw 87,000 racism cases

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Thousands of racist incidents, ranging from name calling to physical abuse, were recorded in Britain’s schools between 2007 and 2011, the BBC finds.

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Racist torment in the classroom

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

How bullying made girl’s school life a ‘daily torment’

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Sister ‘saw Shafilea suffocated’

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

The sister of schoolgirl Shafilea Ahmed saw her mother and father force a bag into her mouth and suffocate her, a court hears.

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Teachers in anti-academy strike

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

A school is closed for the day as teachers go on strike in protest against government plans to turn it into an academy.

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£3.5bn projects fund allocation

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Details of where money will be spent on transport links, schools, hospitals and other infrastructure projects are to be announced by the Welsh government.

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£3.5bn projects fund allocation