2,815 source-backed education facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 20 of 29.
“The small school with just 200 pupils has won the 'best of the best' award.”
“The judges rarely select the same school for the top award in two consecutive years, so this is a measure of the fantastic work being done at Jones Memorial Primary.”
“The school received £500 to help them with their 'green' endeavours.”
“at 17.2%, is higher than for any other ethnic group in the US.”
“32.9% drop out.”
“8.5% for the second generation”
“only half as many of them go on to complete a bachelor's degree.”
“concern about the Hispanic community often centres on its high school drop-out rate, which, at 17.2%”
“the first generation, of whom 32.9% drop out”
“The rate goes down to 8.5% for the second generation”
“Roughly the same proportion of second-generation Hispanics and (non-Hispanic) whites enrol in college, according to the Pew Hispanic Center”
“but only half as many of them go on to complete a bachelor's degree”
“The Ashmolean is one of five training sites across the university”
“The museums and botanic gardens arm of the University of Oxford has been awarded a grant of more than £400,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).”
“Twelve trainees will spend 18 months working with collections, in volunteer management and understanding new media and technology.”
“The grant is part of a £17m windfall for heritage projects in the UK.”
“The trainees will all undertake their training at three of the five different sites across the university: the Ashmolean Museum, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, the Pitt Rivers Museum, the Oxford Botanic Garden and Harcour…”
“Trainees will begin their placements from spring 2011.”
“On Tuesday, Nesbitt was formally installed as chancellor.”
“The ceremony took place at the Riverside Theatre, Coleraine - a venue that inspired the budding actor.”
“So he began a degree in French at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, but left after a year to pursue his real love, acting.”
“Joining him at the ceremony on Tuesday were four new honorary graduates - actor Conleth Hill, and business leaders Tony Hopkins, Peter Fitzgerald and Bro McFerran.”
“When it came for us to identify a new chancellor, James Nesbitt was the obvious and unanimous choice,”
“The Heritage Lottery funding will lead to 70 placements for jobseekers in skills varying from digitising archives to conserving historic gardens.”
“It said 30 placements would be on offer at some of Wales' biggest heritage sites from St Fagans: National History Museum in Cardiff to Dyffryn Gardens in the Vale of Glamorgan, and Aberglasney and National Botanic Garden of Wales in Carmar…”
“Trainees will then undergo an additional three-month placement at partner sites including the National Library of Wales, and public libraries and museums in Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Swansea and Torfaen.”
“In 1958 the family moved to Rothesay, where Mr Harrison was appointed director of education for the isle of Bute.”
“The £55bn Building Schools for the Future programme has been renovating and rebuilding schools across England.”
“Alex Cunningham, MP for Stockton North, said there had been no new secondary school built in his constituency for 40 years”
“and that £5m had already been spent on rebuilding plans.”
“Last autumn saw the biggest opening of new schools since the Victorian era.”
“Alex Cunningham, MP for Stockton North, said there had been no new secondary school built in his constituency for 40 years - and that £5m had already been spent on rebuilding plans.”
“The new school will be on the site of the former Old Lea Junior School and will share the premises with the Iqra Muslim School in Wexham Road. It will offer two new classes for reception age children.”
“In Slough the birth rate has increased by 873 children a year over the last six years. That's 29 reception classes and upwards.”
“The Lea Junior School's old buildings were due to be demolished after it closed in 2007. Now, they have been refurbished to create the two new classrooms.”
“The Lea Junior School's old buildings were due to be demolished after it closed in 2007.”
“He moved to Slough in October, but has no nursery place and school place for his son.”
“Philip Walker, 60, retired two years ago from Brymore School, a state-run boys-only boarding and day school.”
“Brymore, near Bridgwater, is a 176-pupil school teaching boys aged between 13-17 and places emphasis on rural skills.”
“Ntombifuti Nyoni watches over 100 children in her toddlers' creche”
“In three weeks time 55,000 pupils in Scotland will leave primary school and in August they will be the first wave of youngsters to be taught the curriculum for excellence in secondary school.”
“Six years ago leading figures in education called for lessons in which there is an emphasis on learning skills and information which can be applied in the real world.”
“They argued one of the main weaknesses of the present curriculum was that it was a mile wide and an inch deep.”
“From August all primary - and secondary schools - are expected to be operating the new curriculum although the government said it was likely to be phased in over months and years.”
“Campaigners also say that in state schools only a minority seem to have a rounded education”
“There could be 100,000 applicants with good A-levels missing places”
“applications to some universities are up more than 30%”
“two Welsh universities said they will not offer places through clearing this year”
“On average the number of applications to Welsh universities is up 15% on last year”
“Swansea Metropolitan University reports a 33% increase”
“Glyndwr University in Wrexham says applications are up 31%”
“Bangor University taking on 17% fewer students this summer”
“Figures obtained by the Politics Show Wales reveal applications to some universities are up more than 30% while places funded by the assembly government remain roughly the same.”
“On average the number of applications to Welsh universities is up 15% on last year.”
“Glyndwr University in Wrexham says applications are up 31%.”
“Meanwhile, the number of places universities are able to offer with money from the assembly government remains about the same as last year.”
“with Bangor University taking on 17% fewer students this summer.”
“Swansea Metropolitan and Aberystwyth universities told BBC Wales they do not intend to enter the clearing process this year for the first time.”
“With many courses already filled Bangor University, University of Wales Newport, Glamorgan University and UWIC said there will be fewer places offered through clearing than last year.”
“the assembly government plans to impose a cap on university places from next year to control spending.”
“Universities have been asked not to recruit above agreed levels this summer”
“I paint every day in the conservatory after school, sometimes for the whole day.”
“George Thampy of St Louis, Missouri, the 2000 Champion”
“Mr Thampy, now 22”
“Scripps, where 11 million contestants nationwide vie for the champion's trophy.”
“The Scripps bee began in 1925”
“This year will be the 15th time sports network ESPN has broadcast the semi-finals”
“and the fifth time ABC has shown the final in prime time”
“In 1958, Michael Petrina finished 24th at Scripps”
“launched by the AARP, an American association for retired people, in 1996”
“his 91-year-old father”
“Marlene Harry of Indiana, 58, finished fourth in last year's Senior Bee”
“has been held in a trendy Brooklyn bar fortnightly since 2004”
“the statistics will confirm that a rise of around 100,000 applicants, compared to a growth in places of just 10,000, leaving more university hopefuls than ever without a place.”
“Meanwhile university leaders are staring into a potential abyss with the prospect of government funding for higher education falling in real terms in each of the next four or five years.”
“Steve Smith, President of Universities UK, is haunted by this potential 'a double whammy' for higher education.”
“This is because the earliest date universities could start to charge higher fees is autumn 2012. Even that would require the proposals to be considered by Parliament before Christmas.”
“And since the higher fees would only apply to new, first-year students it would not be until 2015 before universities receive the higher fee income from the full cohort of undergraduates.”
“As Steve Smith warned a conference of university leaders this week: "It's going to be a very, very bumpy few years."”
“That is why there are strong rumours that the Browne Review, which had been confidently expected by August, will now be delayed until October.”
“says 50 colleges could close as the sector "down-sizes".”
“Quality provision in FE must be maintained as the sector down-sizes the number of general further education college providers, possibly by up to 50 colleges.”
“He added that it would continue to work with the Department for Business Innovation and Skills in this regard.”
“more than seven million books online”
“£1.5m”
“193,000 fragments”
“eighth Century copy of Surat al-Anfal, the eighth chapter of the Qur'an”
“Mediterranean Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities of the 11th Century”
“The vast Broadlands Archive contains the papers of the Victorian prime minister Lord Palmerston, among others. The university acquired the archive with the help of a £2m grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF).”
“The university acquired the archive with the help of a £2m grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF).”
“The Broadlands Archive has been on loan to the university's Hartley Library since 1989 and is stored in purpose-built facilities.”
“just under 9% of Highland schoolchildren played it.”
“1,462 primary school boys played shinty and 722 girls.”
“429 boys and 181 girls had taken up the sport.”
“The New Campus Glasgow project would cost about £300m”
“a three-college merger plan would "lead to fewer student places than are currently provided"”
“The new single campus would cater for up to 50,000 students”
“The concerns of the EIS have been outlined in a letter to Scottish Education Secretary Mike Russell by union general secretary, Ronnie Smith”
“insufficient progress" has been made towards "harmonisation of pay and conditions" for staff at the colleges”
“we have no plans, either private or publicly, to make any compulsory redundancies”
