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“A feasibility study, chaired by former Ceredigion MP Lord Elystan Morgan, was carried out into the 'all-through' scheme.”
“cost per pupil figures for primary and secondary levels in the towns and their catchment areas was among the highest in Wales.”
“Ysgol Dyffryn Teifi's (in Llandysul) site has serious shortcomings in terms of developing the site and the quality of the buildings. The site is not suitable for development into a modern secondary school with adequate resources.”
“In Llandysul, a Welsh medium school would be built on a new site, but this means shutting the town's secondary, its primary and others in nearby CoedyBryn, Aberbanc, Pontsian and Capel Cynon.”
“Parents with children at the five primary schools under threat have started an action group.”
“We, as parents of pupils at the five primary schools in the Llandysul area, are disappointed but not surprised at the decision taken today by the cabinet of Ceredigion County Council to go ahead and establish the 3-19 school in our area an…”
“The JFS children were billeted with the villagers, and the Jews' Free School, Mousehole, was established in the premises of Mousehole School.”
“Pupils will be held in a tent for 20 minutes unable to leave or speak”
“we have being fundraising recently to help pay for visas to get four Burmese teachers over here to schools in the area”
“three Campie teachers and headteacher Sheila Laing are going to visit their partner school, the Burmese Child Development Centre in Mae Sot”
“Up to 2,000 families in Norfolk could be eligible for a free computer as part of a scheme to support children's learning.”
“So far, 3,370 families have received grants for computers but the council said many more could be eligible.”
“The £300m Home Access scheme was first announced by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2008.”
“In January, the county council called on families with children eligible for free school meals to apply for a computer.”
“Parents need to apply through the Home Access website by the end of the week.”
“Currently about 43% of 18 to 30-year-olds progress to higher education.”
“replace the island's six schools in September 2011.”
“over a 14-week period.”
“between 14 June and 23 July”
“has attracted more than 600 members”
“has attracted about 223 members”
“It was announced last week that the school would close on 29 June.”
“Loretto is the closest but it is about £6,000 a term.”
“The school, including the nursery has 397 pupils and 143 staff - 69 teaching and 74 non-teaching.”
“Senior pupils pay £2,456 per term and boarders £2,628 per term.”
“We have come up with a business plan, which I believe can work by cutting costs at the school savagely and raising the fees. There are also a number of things we can do such as have a whip round of the parents, raise new financial backers,…”
“The GP, who qualified in Nigeria, had been working in the UK for decades.”
“In 2006 he had received training from the local NHS designed to make family doctors aware of child protection issues.”
“Thirty six out of 61 schools in the county are affected by the plans.”
“There are 1,900 empty places in Conwy schools”
“the council said the proposals could see 36 schools reduced to 17 if its preferred options go ahead”
“The plans are being put out for consultation until September allowing parents to have a say.”
“If all the council's first choice options went ahead, it would mean children from up to nine smaller villages would have to travel elsewhere to school.”
“Undergraduates will take part in an eight-week summer placement project”
“graduates can participate in a six to 12-month paid posting.”
“Graduates will also be placed in businesses to help transfer their university knowledge in placements lasting between 10 to 40 weeks.”
“the current cap of £3,225 on university tuition fees is currently under review.”
“A fifth of those asked put the economic contribution of the sector at £100m a year, while a further 10% said it was zero.”
“universities contribute around £31bn each year to the nation's economy directly and £59bn indirectly.”
“two million people go to UK universities.”
“The 2000 people surveyed by Populus for UUK rated universities most highly in terms of their research.”
“Almost six in 10 said UK universities had a major impact on technological innovation, with another 30% saying they had 'some impact'.”
“44% said they thought the firms played the biggest role, compared with 24% who thought universities did and 19% who said the NHS did.”
“Populus interviewed 2010 adults, aged 18 plus, online between May 21 and May 23 2010.”
“A 13-year-old Plymouth boy has won the best student award in an army cadet training scheme.”
“Kyle Holden came top of the class out of about 30 others at the Cornwall Army Cadet Force Outreach programme.”
“It offers low achievers the chance to take part in a five-day course at St Mawgan in Cornwall.”
“Last year 21 army cadet forces around the country ran similar outreach programmes.”
“It will fund four apprentices in dry-stone walling and two year-long graduate trainee posts.”
“The region's top dry-stone wallers will pass on their expertise to the apprentices, working on real walling jobs during their 10-month training programme.”
“up to 44% of suicides among 10- to 14-year-olds may be bullying-related.”
“26 out of the 59 cases reported in the national media were linked to intimidating behaviour.”
“Beatbullying said the Office of National Statistics had recorded 176 cases of suicides of 10- to 14-year-olds between 2000 and 2008 in England, Scotland and Wales.”
“at least 14% (26 of 176) were clearly linked by the press to bullying.”
“However, the press covered only 59 cases and the charity thinks up to 78 of the total could have been related to bullying.”
“four voluntary schemes”
“axe more than 100 staff”
“only the second university”
“all three campus trade unions”
“one trade union”
“University and College Union members plan to strike on 18 and 21 June”
“The result of the ballot is expected on 25 June”
“and be implemented from 1 September”
“Both the school, which has 1,700 pupils, and many local residents objected to the change of use of a former grocery store into a takeaway.”
“We are extremely relieved at the safe return of six of our students to the UK.”
“The new document has fleshed out the council's plans with seven models drawn up for the future of schools and three options for post-16 education.”
“This includes a proposal to scrap sixth forms and hand responsibility for post-16 education to the county's further education college, Coleg Powys.”
“Pupil numbers have been falling for the past five years and are predicted to continue that trend to 2015.”
“As a result 15% of secondary school places are surplus at a cost of £1m per annum”
“and that percentage will increase to 25% by 2015, doubling the annual cost.”
“Mr Jones said a number of schools were "already experiencing severe budget deficits and are being forced to take very difficult decisions as a result".”
“In one of a flurry of announcements since the election, the government announced that it had, at a stroke, lifted the ban on state schools offering the international version of the GCSE, the IGCSE.”
“Indeed 16 IGCSEs provided by Cambridge International Examinations had already been accredited by Ofqual.”
“The main reason given for withholding approval was that the IGCSE did not align with the national curriculum (by contrast, the government approved nine subjects which were not core parts of the national curriculum).”
“The extent to which IGCSEs differ from the national curriculum requirements imposed on GCSEs was apparent in a study produced for the government by the QCA in November 2006. It found that IGCSEs in English, mathematics, science and French …”
“The creation of the GCSE in 1986, by a Conservative government, replaced both the O Level and the CSE.”
“The O Level was an exam intended for only the most able 20% of pupils and was the first stage of a university entrance filtering process.”
“The CSE was introduced in 1965 as an attempt to break the universities' hold on school examinations. It was aimed at the next 40% of the ability range.”
“As an aside, it is sobering to remember that the remaining 40% were expected to leave compulsory schooling with no academic qualifications - so much for the so-called 'golden age' of education.”
“One school delighted by this is Parkside Community College, a state school in Cambridge. It introduced science IGCSE in 2008, partly because governors - who included academics from Cambridge University - felt it was a better preparation fo…”
“In particular it involves more mathematical work than the GCSE.”
“Executive Principal, Andrew Hutchinson, says the government decision will put his school on a level playing-field with local independent schools, which already offer the IGCSE.”
“Fergus Millar, 74, was Camden Professor of Ancient History Emeritus, Oxford University until he retired in 2002.”
“He received the Kenyon Medal for Classics from the British Academy in 2005.”
“Siobhan Fitzpatrick, Chief Executive, Early Years Organisation. For services to Education in Northern Ireland. (Rostrevor, Co Down)”
“Despite working as a Sunday school teacher at Fearn Parish Church for 40 years”
“About ten people have been occupying Gartsherrie Primary in Coatbridge since 2 June.”
“The school is among four primaries in the region due to shut for good at the end of June.”
“The students, aged 18 to 22, were studying for a foundation degree in animal management and welfare.”
“Prof Hughes, who will succeed Prof Merfyn Jones, will be only the university's seventh vice-chancellor or principal in its 126-year history when he takes up the post this autumn.”
“In the university, some 700 of the 10,000 students currently follow a course either wholly or partly in Welsh.”
“He raised its ranking from 10th to fourth in Ireland, tripling research income to 34m euros per year”
“He raised its ranking from 10th to fourth in Ireland”
“Prof Hughes has been president of National University of Ireland (NUI) Maynooth since 2004”
“and earning Maynooth the accolade of Sunday Times University of the Year in Ireland in 2008.”
“In his current University in Maynooth he revitalised the use of Irish on campus, and academic meetings in Maynooth can now be conducted bilingually”
“He has also built up an extensive network of international partnerships.”
“Prof Hughes, who will succeed Prof Merfyn Jones”
“Bangor University said Prof Hughes had "firmly committed" to working positively within the bilingual environment in which Bangor operates”
“Councils currently keep 10% of school budgets to provide services, including help for pupils with special needs.”
