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“The cuts of £200m in university spending will be in addition to £449m already announced for next year.”
“Becta, the government's agency for improving the use of educational technology in schools, is to be scrapped. It has running costs of £65m per year - and savings this year are expected to be £10m.”
“There are a raft of other cuts from school projects - including £47m from one-to-one tuition, £60m from diplomas and other vocational qualifications, £1m from the School Food Trust and £40m from 'Every Child' schemes, such as Every Child a…”
“There will be £150m more to fund 50,000 new apprenticeship places and £50m extra for further education colleges.”
“The Million+ group of new universities says the 'real losers are the 10,000 extra students who would have had the opportunity to go to university'.”
“The core spending on schools is to be protected for one year - but there will be £311m cuts to the funding given by the government to local authorities for education.”
“Berivan Sayaca had to leave school and go to work in a factory at the age of 10.”
“It comes as a poll of 1,762 adults suggests nearly half do not know the Romans built Hadrian's Wall or that Nelson won the Battle of Trafalgar.”
“And one in three did not realise Charles Darwin was English.”
“Populus interviewed a panel of 1,762 adults for the survey in April over the internet.”
“She added: "All the evidence shows that singing is a superb learning aid and Sing Up's School Trip Singalong will encourage schools across the country to get involved in learning and singing about some of the greatest monuments in our nati…”
“Southampton Solent University offers a three-year Extreme Sports Management degree.”
“Offa found that the wealthiest 20% of students were seven times more likely to go to the top universities than the poorest 40%.”
“It also found that this gap had not closed since the mid-1990s.”
“The likelihood of young people from the most disadvantaged areas becoming undergraduates has increased 30% over the past five years.”
“And this has not been at the expense of the middle-class students, whose chances of going to university have risen 5% over five years.”
“Now some 45% of young people enter university.”
“The last government's target of getting 50% of young people into higher education received a hostile press...”
“In 2000 the UK had the fourth highest graduation rates in the OECD countries. By 2006 it had fallen to eleventh place.”
“Several countries now send more than 60% of their young people to university.”
“Indeed the Conservatives had planned an extra 10,000 university places this summer (although they were trumped by Labour's last Budget which created an extra 20,000).”
“These 1,500 children who remain outside are the real challenge as normal incentives have not worked for them," Kishore says.”
“A complete 'no' to labour for children under 14 years is crucial.”
“Few can write a sentence correctly despite being in school for three to four years.”
“four years at the shelter have been most rewarding.”
“These 1,500 children who remain outside are the real challenge as normal incentives have not worked for them”
“"These 1,500 children who remain outside are the real challenge as normal incentives have not worked for them," Kishore says.”
“8 million children”
“more than 1,500 children”
“Since April, education has become a fundamental right for children between six and 14 years old in India.”
“Across the state of Maharashtra school drop‑out rates have fallen to just over 2% from 6% in the last three years.”
“They say they make anywhere from $1 (£0.6) to $6 (£4.16) a day.”
“four years at the shelter”
“These 1,500 children”
“A spokesman for Moray Council said the brother and sister who had attended Cabrach Primary had now enrolled at another school.”
“The news comes two days after parents whose children attend neighbouring Mortlach Primary School initiated a campaign to close Cabrach.”
“They had argued the £100,000 cost of keeping Cabrach open was diverting cash from the area's other school.”
“Helena Sherakovska, whose two children attended Cabrach, had argued that it was short-sighted to reduce the argument on the school's future to one of cost alone.”
“Her comments came in response to parents of the 146 pupils of Mortlach Primary in Dufftown, who had launched a petition aimed at having Cabrach closed.”
“Moray Council had planned to close the school in 2008, however the proposal was rejected by the Scottish government.”
“parents of the 146 pupils of Mortlach Primary in Dufftown, who had launched a petition aimed at having Cabrach closed.”
“Moray Council had planned to close the school in 2008”
“two remaining pupils”
“146 pupils”
“in 2008”
“the brother and sister who had attended Cabrach Primary had now enrolled at another school.”
“the £100,000 cost of keeping Cabrach open was diverting cash from the area's other school.”
“parents of the 146 pupils of Mortlach Primary in Dufftown”
“The smallest school in Moray looks set to close after its two pupils left.”
“they had argued the £100,000 cost of keeping Cabrach open was diverting cash from the area's other school.”
“Just one in seven of those who qualified last summer have a full-time permanent job.”
“One in five children have never received a letter, the poll says”
“Nearly half of primary school pupils questioned for a survey said they were not sure how to set out a letter.”
“And one in four of the seven to 14-year-olds polled had not tried to write one in the past year.”
“the poll of 1,188 UK primary school children found”
“Researchers found 8% of 14-year-olds questioned had written a letter in the past week compared with 28% of seven-year-olds.”
“Some 45% of 11-year-olds questioned said they either did not know or were not sure how to set out a letter.”
“The poll was conducted by YouGov online in April”
“The school began working towards gaining accreditation in 2005.”
“It must now undergo further reviews every three years to retain its status.”
“A total of 190 exams were affected by the closure of 14 centres across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ofqual says.”
“It says the figure was a small proportion of the 1,300 examinations taken during the winter.”
“For most centres only one day of examinations was affected and in most cases fewer than 10 candidates were affected.”
“These closures affected around 190 examinations in total.”
“unprecedented shortage of about 1,200 places”
“for the 2010/11 school year”
“boost university numbers by 10,000”
“extra 20,000 for the academic year 2010”
“phasing out tuition fees over six years”
“837,000 18 to 24-year-olds not in employment, education or training”
“The Liberal Democrats had insisted in the run-up to the election that the scheme should be fully funded. They wanted an investment of £2.5bn.”
“The coalition document, released on Thursday, also says schools will be given more freedom over the curriculum.”
“We will reform the existing rigid national pay and conditions rules to give schools greater freedoms to pay good teachers more and deal with poor performance”
“to create "Technical Academies", where students can follow vocational courses from the age of 14.”
“The final coalition agreement on schools is a mixed bag. There is now included some welcome protection for Sure Start.”
“At last a government has agreed a review of the Key Stage 2 tests.”
“the coalition would "simplify the regulation of standards in education and target inspection on areas of failure"”
“In its second submission to the review, the Sutton Trust calls for the creation of a bounty fund of "tens of millions of pounds a year" to reward universities "that make special efforts to recruit students from poorer homes". The money sho…”
“A report on Wednesday from the the agency in charge of widening access to higher education said that youngsters from wealthy homes were seven times more likely to go to England's top universities than those from disadvantaged backgrounds.”
“The agency, the Office for Fair Access (Offa) said there had been no significant change since the mid-1990s.”
“Public hearings for a review into university funding resume on Thursday. ... Another day of hearings on Friday, in Leicester, will be the final one.”
“The wealthiest 20% of youngsters are seven times more likely than the most disadvantaged 40% to get places at England's most selective universities.”
“The Office for Fair Access (Offa) says there has been no significant change since the mid-1990s.”
“Access from the 40% least disadvantaged youngsters has been "almost flat since the mid-1990s".”
“Oxford University, responding to the Offa report, says it spends £3m a year on outreach projects and a further £6m on bursaries.”
“But it highlights how independent school pupils are so over-represented in the top grades - accounting for almost a third of pupils achieving three grade As at A-level.”
“Earlier this week, the Russell Group of leading universities submitted proposals to Lord Browne's review which called for a lifting of the current £3,225 limit on fees.”
“"Wider and more flexible progression routes from colleges and apprenticeships to universities will be an important part of this agenda. This is one of the weak points of the English education system and we are committed to improving it."”
“Wider and more flexible progression routes from colleges and apprenticeships to universities will be an important part of this agenda. This is one of the weak points of the English education system and we are committed to improving it.”
“This should happen before the age of 14 when pupils are making their decisions about GCSE options, he says.”
“In September 2009, Mr Wheeler applied for the university's endorsement in his bid for Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships...”
“Investigators also learned the student had been suspended from Bowdoin College in Maine amid an accusation of academic dishonesty...”
“Mr Leone said that Mr Wheeler, who was studying English, was caught out again falsifying his achievements and recommendations when he tried to transfer to Yale and Brown universities.”
“But the spokesman said that in general, when the school discovers a student has falsified application materials the student is expelled.”
“A Canadian study of 1,200 children aged two to 17 suggests those who are able to lie have reached an important developmental stage.”
“Only a fifth of two-year-olds tested in the study were able to lie.”
“But at age four, 90% were capable of lying, the study found.”
“The rate increases with age to a peak at age 12.”
“how the £3,225-a-year fee could rise to £9,000 without extra costs in taxpayers' subsidies.”
“The group says its universities will face a £1.1bn funding gap by 2012-13.”
