Friday 30th of July 2010
Newspedia.eu - Home of the news
All you got to know about the world
 

Search results for pupils

  Brown sets targets for science
Date: February  27, 2009  

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has set targets to increase the number of pupils in secondary school in England taking science subjects.In the next five years, Mr Brown wants to double the number of pupils taking "triple science", which includes biology, chemistry and physics.He also wants to have access to science as single subjects in 90% of schools.
   Relief to work
Date: February  26, 2009  

A 40-year-old Zimbabwean primary school teacher in a high-density area of the capital, Harare, tells the BBC News website why he has ended his five-month strike after the new power-sharing government started to pay salaries in foreign currency.A month ago, he explained how he could not afford to work, as his monthly salary of 30 trillion Zimbabwe d
  Poor still shunning universities
Date: February  25, 2009  

The government has given universities £392m to get more working class youngsters in England to attend but progress has been slow, MPs say.The Commons public accounts committee says it is "dismayed" the government seems to have little idea what they have done with the money.Participation rose by two percentage points over five years to 2007-08 -
  School surplus deprives pupils
Date: February  25, 2009  

Children are losing out on their funding entitlement because schools are holding too much money in reserve, claims a teachers union.Schools in England held surpluses of £2bn at the end of the last school year show annual figures, an increase of almost 15% on the previous year.The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NA
  In a twist
Date: February  24, 2009  

By Stephanie HancockBBC News, JeddahIt would be bizarre in any country to find that its lingerie shops are staffed entirely by men.But in Saudi Arabia - an ultra-conservative nation where unmarried men and women cannot even be alone in a room together if they are not related - it is strange in the extreme.Women, forced to negotiate their most intim
  In a twist
Date: February  24, 2009  

By Stephanie HancockBBC News, JeddahIt would be bizarre in any country to find that its lingerie shops are staffed entirely by men.But in Saudi Arabia - an ultra-conservative nation where unmarried men and women cannot even be alone in a room together if they are not related - it is strange in the extreme.Women, forced to negotiate their most intim
  Museum lovers social networking
Date: February  23, 2009  

Museum visitors will be able to share their cultural passions in a social networking website.A group of the UK s most famous museums, including the British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum, is creating a collective website.As well as finding information about exhibits, museum lovers can use the website to create communities based on their hist
  Man questioned on teacher killing
Date: February  20, 2009  

The Romanian authorities have arrested a man for the murder of a County Antrim woman who was found dead in eastern Romania. Jennifer Buchanan, a mother of two from Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, was a teacher at Glengormley High School.She died in a small village near the Moldovan border. She had been visiting friends at the time of her death.It is und
  Primary education is deficient
Date: February  19, 2009  

Children in England are getting a "deficient" primary education because schools are focusing too much on maths, English and testing, a report has said.Their right to a broad curriculum is being "needlessly compromised" and their lives "impoverished" by the "standards agenda", the report claims. The Cambridge Primary Review s interim report is part
  Artist looks for former models
Date: February  18, 2009  

An artist is looking to reunite drawings of school children he made about three decades ago with the adults those pupils have become.Francis Boag, 60, is nowadays known for his landscape and still life work, but while he was teaching he would often make sketches of his pupils.He used the youngsters at St John s in Dundee and Monifieth High School a


Select a page: 1234  from  75                Next page



US ready to aid Mexico drug fight
Delicate mission
North Korea seeks rare UN talks
Donors asked to pledge Gaza cash
Bangladesh manhunt for mutineers
US cell assault video released
Asean group seeks economic action
Violence flares over race movie
Shark attacks Australian surfer
Hariri court set to formally open
Pious protector
Missiles hit Pakistan border area


 
The news are provided by BBC World News™.
 
Media Studio Network : Worldy.info | Pictravel.eu | Zones.ro | Mediastudio.ro | Newspedia.eu | theAgency.ro
Sfaturi pentru shop online
© 2007. Newspedia.eu