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Education
The Guardian:
Conflict study is a growing theme in schools, from tackling imaginary wars to remembering past battlesThe problems of Tottonia are intractable on the face of it: civil war, a subversive neighbour and refugee camps seething wi (Read More)
The Guardian:
Da Vinci and Einstein? They're old news – the future is the presentPoll: Vote for your greatest living geniusAs Marc Abrahams writes today (24 November) in EducationGuardian, psychologists spend an enormous amount of energy a (Read More)
The Guardian:
Many children in orphanages throughout the developing world have at least one parent who is alive, a charity claims today.According to research by Save the Children, 98% of children in residential care in central and eastern (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
The Queen's speech, which outlined new legal guarantees for public services, reflects the trend for commitments and guarantees on public service delivery to be written into legislation (13 bills, seven minutes, one question: (Read More)
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Embattled children's services watchdog faces calls for radical overhaul to restore public confidenceOfsted today faces calls for a radical overhaul to restore public confidence amid fresh accusations that it is so concerned w (Read More)
The Guardian:
A Pakistani neuroscientist and mother of three is to stand trial in New York for attempted murder. But shadowy questions about her life remain – including her links to al-Qaida and her five 'lost' yearsOn a hot summer morning (Read More)
The Guardian:
Universities are struggling to provide an effective response to a worrying rise in racism off campusIn the hectic student calendar at Warwick University, week nine used to be given over to Rise Against Racism week. Now, thoug (Read More)
The Guardian:
More than 20,000 new students joined the University of the Third Age this yearAt the local church hall on a late autumn afternoon in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, more than 100 wannabe-students are queueing to sign up to a ne (Read More)
The Guardian:
Research into song lyrics about sexual violence reveals that they both support and empower womenBack in 1962, the Crystals released a song called He Hit Me (And it Felt like a Kiss). "If he didn't care for me," warbled one of (Read More)
The Guardian:
How will universities train enough nurses to degree level when the drop-out rate for such courses can be as high as 78%?Jane – not her real name – has thought many times about quitting her degree in adult nursing at a London (Read More)
The Guardian:
There is talk of closing down the prison philosophy class. Can the power of the press save it?Tony can't get over the parrot. "Are you sure," he says, "about punishing this parrot?" Casey turns to him and says: "If you can ho (Read More)
The Guardian:
It seems geniuses themselves can't pin down this elusive quality and where it comes fromPsychologists still grind away (sometimes at each other) at explaining what genius is, and where it comes from. The effort, now weary and (Read More)
The Guardian:
Many schools find that National Challenge status has actually made it harder to improveIn the classrooms of Canterbury high school, students are receiving what Ofsted last year described as an "outstanding" education. Outside (Read More)
The Guardian:
The government's proposed legislation to set legal guarantees for what parents and children can expect from schools must be backed up with provision for schools to meet themIt's difficult to remember a Queen's speech that did (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Bizo, the ad targeting platform spun off from ZoomInfo a year-and-a-half ago, has raised $6 million in a round of funding, according to an SEC filing. The company’s platform let (Read More)
Bangalore-Cities-The Times of India:
Eminent scientist and academician Goverdhan Mehta has been honoured as a `national research professor' by the government of India for contribution in the field of chemical sciences and higher education. Mehta will join a sele (Read More)
Thaindian News:
By Arun Kumar and Manish ChandWashington, Nov 24 (IANS) A day before India and the US unveil an ambitious initiative on education as part of their next phase of strategic partnership, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for (Read More)
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Ahmedabad-Cities-The Times of India:
A day after the Gunotsav started the process of education evaluation in the state, reports are trickling in of how its abysmal state has horrified those entrusted with examining it. (Read More)
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Seventh-grade teacher Ruth Keenan has a Facebook page. So does Jennifer McGovern, who teaches kindergarten. And so do the school districts they work for.RelatedRead Maureen Downey's blogTeacher sues over Facebook issueMore At (Read More)
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