The year 3 pupils at Park End Primary School in Middlesbrough are a bit of a rowdy bunch. Headteacher Julia Rodwell describes them as “a complex and difficult group”. Put them in front of a chess set though, and silence descends. “The first time I saw them playing...
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June 26, 2017 Loknath Das
Schools
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More than £18,000 has been donated after Pullman offered to name a character in new book to raise funds for victims of the Grenfell Tower fire Author Philip Pullman will name one of the characters of his new book after a teenage victim of the Grenfell Tower fire,...
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June 26, 2017 Loknath Das
Schools
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Commonwealth alumni returning to Bangladesh should aim to contribute as much as they can to their local communities. This was the clear message from Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament – and a former Commonwealth Scholar herself – at a reception last week. The reception,...
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June 24, 2017 Loknath Das
Scholarship
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You’ll be hard pressed to find a class of 30 angels in any school – but variety, as they say, is the spice of life. Here’s one teacher on how to deal with *those* students The Sulker The sulker will crease up their face and their bottom lip...
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June 24, 2017 Loknath Das
Schools
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The SAT and ACT once differed in several areas: The ACT was notable for testing scientific knowledge and reasoning, while the SAT left that material to more specialized subject tests. As of March 2016, however, the lines have blurred significantly. Following the SAT’s recent redesign, that exam now...
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June 24, 2017 Loknath Das
Exam preparation
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Two major UK universities are to offer massive open online courses – or Moocs – which for the first time will earn credits that count towards a final degree, it has been announced. In what is being billed as an important step towards widening access to higher education,...
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June 24, 2017 Loknath Das
Universities
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