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Education
Schools get lessons in online hazards
Two thirds of UK teenagers have been approached online by a stranger through
their social networking page, according to the results of a new survey.
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Inside Education
School exam results delivered late
Saturday, 6 February 2010
Royal Mail has apologised to anxious pupils whose grammar school entrance exam results were delivered late.
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‘Unregulated tests must not become permanent’
Saturday, 6 February 2010
Unregulated school entrance tests cannot be allowed to become a permanent
feature of Northern Ireland’s education system.
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Cheryl Cole named 'ideal teacher'
Friday, 5 February 2010
Schoolchildren have named X Factor judge Cheryl Cole their ideal teacher, ahead of egghead Stephen Fry, a poll has revealed.
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Thousands of schoolchildren will know the score at weekend
Friday, 5 February 2010
Tomorrow 13,700 pupils will receive the results of new transfer tests.
Education Correspondent Kathryn Torney reports on the details parents need
to guide them through the transfer maze
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Parents must now reassure children over transfer
Friday, 5 February 2010
PIP Jaffa, chief executive of the Parents Advice Centre, gives her advice to
families waiting on transfer test results:
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Special circumstances could help in decisions
Friday, 5 February 2010
The two testing regimes have called on primary school principals to support
pupils' claims of special circumstances if their exam performance was
affected by illness or another event, for example a family bereavement.
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Anti-terror police stationed in British universities
Friday, 5 February 2010
Counter-terrorism officers are being stationed in universities at risk of
being targeted by extremists.
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MLAs ‘should be ashamed of transfer fiasco’
Friday, 5 February 2010
Northern Ireland's politicians should be ashamed of the unregulated school
transfer process experienced by thousands of children this year, it has been
claimed.
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Number of pupils caught cheating in exams rising
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Cheating in GCSE and A-level exams increased last year with teenagers caught
almost 4,500 times, official figures show.
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School experts to advise political parties on crisis
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Four of the main political parties will be presented with possible interim
school transfer arrangements by Easter, the Belfast Telegraph can confirm
today.
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'Virtual lab' helps Irish language students
Monday, 1 February 2010
A new website linking Irish language students with native speakers has been launched.
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Anger over YouTube pupil fights in Northern Ireland
Friday, 29 January 2010
A parenting advice organisation has called for urgent action to stop violent
videos of Northern Ireland schoolchildren brawling being posted on the
internet.
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‘Catastrophic’ cuts for Northern Ireland schools
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Northern Ireland’s schools are facing job losses and a cut in classroom
funding due to a serious budget crisis at the Department of Education, it
can be revealed today.
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Schoolbags ‘should be searched for booze’
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Schoolbags should be searched to try and cut the number of schoolchildren
abusing alcohol, a teaching union has said.
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Transfer chaos may run a for decade
Monday, 18 January 2010
Sinn Fein plays down possibility of a resolution Sinn Fein’s education
spokesman John O’Dowd is interviewed by the Belfast Telegraph’s Kathryn
Torney
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Northern Ireland school transfer debate: ‘We’ll look back and wonder what all the fuss was about’
Monday, 18 January 2010
It could be argued that the first words uttered by John O’Dowd sum up his
party’s attitude to the long-running school transfer debate.
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Shocking anti-bully advert launched
Thursday, 14 January 2010
An anti-bullying advert which was ruled too shocking to appear on television has been launched.
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Schools shut today due to the weather
Friday, 8 January 2010
List of schools closed today
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‘One in six children have problems talking’
Monday, 4 January 2010
Almost one in six children have problems learning to talk, with boys facing
more difficulties than girls, a survey found today.
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Private school in administration
Thursday, 24 December 2009
Over 350 pupils face having no school to return to after their Christmas
holiday after their prestigious private school went bust, accountants have
said.
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