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This section provides a selection of automated education industry news feeds. The articles cover general education, education policy and education standards.
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Education: Class warfare
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Everything to play for Fly Title: Education Rubric: How will the candidates tackle schools and colleges? Main image: 20121006_ELD006_1.jpg EARLIER this year a Gallup poll found that confidence in America’s public schools was at an all-time low. Its data go back to 1973. Few politicians who speak about education these...
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Sri Lanka’s universities: Shuttered
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Four more years? Fly Title: Sri Lanka’s universities Rubric: Lecturers go on strike, and the government has a drastic response Location: COLOMBO Main image: A tutorial for the government A tutorial for the government THE Buddhist monk, staring intently at the smoke rising from an incense stick, said the...
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Education: Extreme couponing
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Microbes maketh man Fly Title: Education Rubric: Indiana has seen a quiet whirlwind of education reform IN THE summer of 2011 a 16-year-old girl called Dayana Vazquez-Buquer arrived at the reception desk of Roncalli High School, a nice private school in the south side of Indianapolis. Her parents were Mexican immigrants who could...
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Education: Charting a better course
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Banksters Fly Title: Education Rubric: Charter schools raise educational standards for vulnerable children Location: CHICAGO AND MINNEAPOLIS Main image: 20120707_USP001_0.jpg “EVERYONE'S pencil should be on the apple in the tally-mark chart!” shouts a teacher to a class of pupils at Harvest Preparatory...
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Education reform: Out with the new
UK Only Article: UK article only Issue: Egypt in peril Fly Title: Education reform Rubric: A bold but risky move to toughen exams Main image: Inflation feels so good Inflation feels so good IT IS not so much a revolution as a restoration. Leaked plans have revealed that Michael Gove, the education secretary, intends to phase out the General Certificate of Secondary...
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Labour’s education divide: An unruly classroom
UK Only Article: UK article only Issue: The vanishing north Fly Title: Labour’s education divide Rubric: Labour is confusingly ambivalent about a policy of its own making Main image: Ed Miliband does have a firm policy on biscuits Ed Miliband does have a firm policy on biscuits MIRED in mid-term malaise, the government can summon at least two consolations...
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Adult numeracy: Computing the cost
JENNY is hard-working single mum who struggles to make ends meet. Squeezed for cash, she sought to borrow from a loan shark. He offered two options, she tells friends, and she chose the one with the higher interest rate. The women nod in support, reckoning she got the better deal; none realises her mistake. Almost a quarter of British adults are so bad at numbers that they struggle to operate a...
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Mobile communications: Signs of progress
WHERE the internet has yet to take firm root, people plump for the next-best thing. In many emerging markets this means text messaging. Customers have embraced the short message service (SMS) not just to communicate with each other, but also to get weather forecasts, bus schedules and traffic information, or to vote in television talent shows. Authorities use it...
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