More funds urged for poor pupils
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Deprivation funding in England's schools should double and pupils be forced into extra lessons, a think tank says.
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Group of Eight leaders called Sunday for more AIDS funding to improve monitoring and to give more people access to treatment.
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By NO BYLINE  SCHOOLS across East Lothian are to spend a Scottish Executive cash injection on new books, computers and musical instruments.   A total of GBP 742,000 was set aside for the county's schools out of a national pot of GBP 40 million announced last November.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown will on Thursday call for more money to be put into a United Nations global emergency fund so that it can better respond to humanitarian crises.
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Struggling schools are to receive more regular inspections, says education watchdog, Ofsted.
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Education inspectors say cost means many poorer children do not get a chance to learn a musical instrument.
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Senior volunteers are contributing their time to help struggling school systems.
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More grammar and private schools should be opened to improve the UK's 'dire' educational status, according to a new report from the Economic Research Council.
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Parents at a state-funded faith state school  are being asked  for voluntary contributions of more than Â£1,200 a year.
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The amount of money England's secondary schools spend on ICT has risen by a third in a year.
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Tony Blair is being urged to use all his negotiating powers to end poor countries&#39; debt and double aid. Some 45m children will die needlessly before 2015 and aid budgets are half their 1960 levels, charity Oxfam says in a new report, Paying the Price.
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An inquiry into youngsters who hurt themselves on purpose says schools need more help to deal with the problem.
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Â·  More than 10,000 pupils in poor areas to benefit Â·  English parents may get children's weight warning
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Britain needs to spend more to help poorer nations deal with climate change, Oxfam says.
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Poorer children are not more likely to take up a school place allocated through a  lottery, researchers say.
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Parents are urged by Schools Secretary Ed Balls to spend more time reading to their children.
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Global lenders need to offer more grants and debt relief to poor countries and tailor lending toward the private sector, Treasury Secretary John Snow said today.