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Guardian’s top 10 choices for career changers
The Guardian has just published a guide to the top 10 choices for career changers in 2010. The Guardian published it because they wanted to reassure people that although they may be feeling that their choices to change career are pretty limited at the moment, this is not necessarily the case. Despite the...
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Fury as 13-year-old pupils get pregnancy tests at school
Education officials have been condemned for giving pregnancy tests to thousands of schoolgirls.
Girls as young as thirteen are to be offered routine tests in high schools in Liverpool and Wirral as part of a teenage health drive on Merseyside.
Liverpool health chiefs are planning to fund a pilot project in...
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Thousands ‘to miss out on degree’
Higher education funding body, Hefce, is due to outline how spending on teaching, research and capital will be allocated in the next academic year.
Before Christmas, unexpected cuts of £135m were added to “efficiency savings” of £180m for 2010/11.
The government is accusing the higher...
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Solihull teachers arrested over indecent child images
Two primary school teachers have been arrested on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children.
Both of the male teachers, aged 37 and 43, who teach at separate schools in Solihull in the West Midlands, were arrested in Monkspath. Since then both have been suspended until further notice.
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The number of foreign students in the UK has risen by over a third in the last year.
Immigration figures show that around 362,000 visas were issued in the 12 months up to June.
Recently the issue of study visas has been brought into the spotlight following controversy of increasing numbers of students entering the country to attend bogus colleges. These have been used to...
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Two primary school teachers have been arrested on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children.
Both of the male teachers, aged 37 and 43, who teach at separate schools in Solihull in the West Midlands, were arrested in Monkspath. Since then both have been suspended until further notice.
A police spokesman said: “At this stage… there is nothing to suggest...
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Durham University was founded by Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a Royal Charter in 1837. It was one of the first universities to open in England for more than 600 years, and is claimed to be England’s third oldest after Oxford and Cambridge.
Durham is a collegiate university, with its main functions divided between the central departments of the University and 16...
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The London School of Economics and Political Science, commonly referred to as the London School of Economics or LSE, is a specialist constituent college of the University of London in London, England. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb and George Bernard Shaw, the School joined the federal University of London in 1900 as the Faculty of...