Private schools preserve 'apartheid'
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Private schools are creaming off the most able students, says influential independent school head
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Mike Baker finds a Swiss role model for vocational schooling that could encourage 'staying on'.
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Schools for children with special needs should not close unless provision is improving, the government says.
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Members of Britain's largest college teachers' union have reignited a fierce debate about academics and politics by asking colleagues to consider boycotting Israel over what it calls "apartheid" policies toward the Palestinians.
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Schools alone cannot improve the achievement of pupils from poor backgrounds, a report says.
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MADRID, Dec 3 (IPS) - The only classroom for the mentally disabled in the   tiny West African nation of Equatorial Guinea is run by two  non-governmental  organisations, because for the government, the  mentally handicapped do not  exist, an activist told IPS in  Spain.
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Leading independent schools should set up private universities, an academic says.
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Kenya introduces a free secondary school education programme, despite the post-lection violence.
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Black ethnic minority pupils are still outperformed by their white classmates but continue to narrow the gap.
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MAPUNGUBWE, South Africa  - People in southern  Africa have long told the tale of a sophisticated kingdom that  once thrived here, but the story was ignored by a government  that dismissed any sign of black ingenuity.
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Education officials' plan to convert a landmark into a school is irking those intent on preserving the building's past.
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There is a warning that independent schools are stretching their lead among A-level students.
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A debate is festering among graduates and parents at St. Paul's, an elite school in New Hampshire, with critics accusing trustees and the rector of mismanagement.
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Despite a market filled with more than 15 private international schools, those working in the sector are reporting increases in enrollment among expatriate and Hungarian children - the response to which has ...
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A primary school whose test results were quashed  for alleged cheating denies having  done anything wrong.
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JOHANNESBURG -- A decade after the end of apartheid, South Africa is a remarkable success story of a nation overcoming its past. But to confront the country's lingering threats -- AIDS, widespread poverty, crime, racism -- South Africa's government must begin encouraging public debate rather than discouraging criticism as unpatriotic.
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A private school head teacher is not "barred" from teaching in the state sector - and could be accredited in days.