The Iraqi PhD student said he was detained at Heathrow "because of President Trump’s executive order".http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-38825642
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Parents are being asked to donate up to £180 a year to boost Ilkley Grammar School’s declining funds.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-38827473
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After opening up about my mental health problems, I received the help I needed to do my lecturing job well, writes Erica Crompton On an autumn afternoon in 2009, I was fired from my job as a university lecturer. I hadn’t declared my schizophrenia on an application form and this was treated as gross misconduct.
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Finland’s answer to a slip in standards is to put more ‘joy’ into the curriculum. We visit a school in Yorkshire that aims to show the UK could do the same ‘New core curriculum for basic education emphasises the joy of learning,” reads a recent headline on a government education website. This new, more joyful
Forget practising for hours on end or cramming the night before an exam. Here are some pointers to help you get top results The old saying, “If at first you don’t succeed: try, try again”, might need rewriting. Because, according to new research, even if you do succeed, you should still try, try again. “Overlearning”, scientists
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Few doubt the value of nursery schools, yet many could close as early as July thanks to government plans for free childcare Kate Daenke is sitting in the headteacher’s room at Homerton early years centre in Cambridge, recalling her childhood years at the nursery school. She remembers her headteacher and many hours spent playing in
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School improvement is a complicated business. And improving a large comprehensive is almost a totally different process to establishing a new school (I’ve done both). A high proportion of the mega-success stories we hear about are from new schools or schools that have closed and re-opened: they set up the curriculum from scratch, hire the
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The latest school ratings are published on Tuesday, the third year of a colour-coded system in Wales.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-38796996
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Findern in Derby says shoelessness – an idea inspired by research study – is huge success, with children better able to learn Children at an East Midlands primary school are being encouraged to wear slippers in class. Findern primary in Derby introduced the idea after one of the teachers came across research that found the
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