Schools 'fail' in ex-Soviet bloc
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Millions of children go without formal education in former Soviet countries, a Unicef report claims.
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One in 10 secondary schools in England were judged "inadequate" by school inspectors, a report is to say.
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Many schools in Italy have been affected by a strike over school reforms and feared budget cuts.
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Media & professional: School history lessons are often fragmented and place too much emphasis on England, Ofsted says.
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Video image of hostages sitting below explosives strung from basketball hoops in the gymnasium of a school in Beslan, Russia. Photograph: NTV/AP.
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In the cities and villages of southern Russia, the first day of school is a civic holiday. So it was last Wednesday in Beslan, when 1,200 parents and their children packed into Middle School No.
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BESLAN, Russia Sept. 15, 2004 - Two weeks after heavily armed militants took more than 1,200 hostages in a school in southern Russia, students in this grief-stricken town returned to classes accompanied
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Oxfam says more than half of Afghan children are missing out on school because of a lack of teachers and places.
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MOSCOW Sept. 1, 2004 - Armed men seized a school in the Russian region of North Ossetia Wednesday morning and were in a gun battle with police, news reports said.
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A top government adviser says about 80,000 children go to underperforming secondary schools each year.
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Teachers who survived the Beslan school siege say nearly 400 former hostages are still unaccounted for.
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At least 43m children around the world are unable to go to school because of armed conflicts, a new report says.
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Language tensions overshadow the new school year in Moldova's breakaway Trans-dniester region.
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Pupils in primary and secondary schools across England lack an overview of history, Ofsted warns.
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According to the Russian government, about 330 people, one-third of them school children, were found dead after Russian special forces (Spetsnaz) stormed a school gymnasium in the North Ossetian town of Beslan on September 3. How they died and whether all
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KOLOMNA, Russia - One of the most discordant debates in Russian society is playing out in public schools like those in this city not far from Moscow, where the other day a teacher named Irina Donshina set aside her textbooks, strode before her second-graders, and, as if speaking from a pulpit, posed a simple question:
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Too many school leavers  cannot  read, write or add up properly, large businesses complain.