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• Disabled children get more help

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Parent champions will draw on their experiences to help other parents of disabled children Local authorities are to recruit parents of disabled children to help other mothers and fathers in similar situations under a government scheme to improve access to childcare announced today. Funding of £12.5m will also pay ...
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• 90% of pupils miss GCSE target in some areas, Conservatives say

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Shadow childrens secretary Michael Gove says Tories will give teachers more powers to keep order in classroom Only one in 10 pupils achieve the government benchmark of five good GCSEs in some deprived neighbourhoods, according to analysis by the Tories. In 24 areas in England, less than 15% of students got five ...
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• Parents urged to show jobless graduates tough love

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Guide tells parents to stop doing the ironing in order to empty the nest amid record graduate unemployment With graduate unemployment at its highest for more than a decade, the lure of the parental nest has never been stronger. But mollycoddling mothers and fathers should resist the urge to make home too comfortable ...
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• Letters: Opportunities and threats in university funding crisis

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Your editorial (24 December) states that, in the light of further cuts in funding for universities, "social mobility is suddenly a luxury for another day". On the contrary, its an opportunity to put in place an equitable structure of higher education funding for the long term. We will not achieve social mobility ...
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• Shock Doctrine

  
  StickWithANose — Authority: 127
  It would appear as though Obama’s channeling of Uncle Milty’s now infamous Shock Doctrine is coming to fruition. State budgets may be collapsing nation-wide, but Tennessee’s budget forecasts are simply terrible. With Arne Duncan dangling billions in front of state legislatures, the Obama administration is ...
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• Letters: Ofqual appointment

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Barry Sheerman has got the wrong end of the stick over the appointment of the chair of Ofqual ( MP accuses Balls of ignoring vetting rules , 19 December). I told parliament on 24 March that there would not be a pre-appointment hearing for Kathleen Tattersall – but that there would be for new candidates for that post ...
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• Poorest miss day of school each week

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  • More than 5% of children are persistent absentees • Truancy in England third higher than in 1997 Nearly 50,000 children from the poorest neighbourhoods in England miss one day of school a week, compared to fewer than 7,000 from the richest homes, the Conservatives revealed today. Pupils from the poorest 10% of ...
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• A rise in fees would make university education fairer

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  IT IS A curious branch of Keynesian economics that, in the midst of a recession, bails out poorly performing industries while cutting funds for improving the nations skills. Yet that was what business secretary Lord Mandelson announced last week. Happy to subsidise the auto industry with a cash-for-clunkers scheme, he ...
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• University funding: Shape of cuts to come

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  When Lord Mandelson quietly announced cuts of 6.6% in the higher education budget for 2010‑11 this week, he did two extremely important things simultaneously. The first was to throw more than 10 years of steady university expansion under Labour, one of the signature policies of the Blair-Brown era, into sudden ...
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• A chilling vision for higher education | Tom Sperlinger

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Two-year degrees are fine in principle, but Lord Mandelsons words point to a divisive approach to universities and learning Few ministers write bureaucratic prose with Lord Mandelsons evident love of the form. For all its austerity, his letter on higher education funding for 2010-11 promises riches for those of us ...
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• Two-year degrees get top marks | Andrew Haldenby

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Lord Mandelson is right. In a weak economy, students need universities to help them learn at a lower cost Lord Mandelson is arguing this morning that universities should teach some degree courses in two years rather than three as part of their efforts to save money. In my own experience that is right – and should ...
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• Academics and vice-chancellors oppose Mandelsons universities move

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Higher education leaders warn of severe pressures from £500m budget cut Academics and vice-chancellors from across Englands universities united today to oppose cuts announced yesterday of more than half a billion pounds from their budgets next year. Vice-chancellors warned of "severe pressures" that would ...
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• Universities policy: The good times are over, and Mandelson gets it | Michael White

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Theres always waste, always bad or marginal courses that students might be wise to avoid, always better ways of doing things. We know that in the private sector, dont we? Peter Mandelson and Jack Straw were both on the airwaves promoting government spending plans this morning. Guess which minister gets it, which one ...
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• The Unbundling of the University

  
  Sunday Posts — Authority: 432
  I have previous mentioned about a Facilitated Network Model of education, where modern learning technology - of cheap communication and rich media - transform the education to a more asynchronous, personalized yet collaborative process. I argued that the model of education as we have it today, is increasingly out of ...
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• Happy Holidays from Ed Money Watch

  
  Federal Education Budget Project: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 115
  Author(s):  Emilie Deans December 22, 2009 In honor of the holiday season, Ed Money Watch will be taking a break for the next to weeks. Well be back on January 5th with more coverage of education ...
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• Can Education Keep Up

  
  Threads from Henry's Web — Authority: 120
  One of the things I think has not been discussed enough in the current job situation, though I think President Obama has done extremely well on this one point compared to his predecessors, is the simple fact that jobs for minimally educated people are disappearing, and thus many of the new jobs that are being created ...
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• Blocking a Federal Education Grant

  
  Threads from Henry's Web — Authority: 120
  While I know that some forms of determining merit pay for teachers can be unfair, in general I think tying pay to performance is an excellent, indeed necessary idea. Now the Florida Education Association is trying to block $700 million in grants from the federal government because it’s tied to incentive pay. ...
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• Go for DI and SFA

  
  Teach Effectively! — Authority: 416
  Robert Slavin and colleagues reported that reading programs that provide extensive professional development on instructional strategies which promote student participation, strengthen phonics competence, and explicitly teach comprehension strategies are the best bets for improving reading achievement. The clearest ...
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• I agree with Paul Cottle: set a date for science

  
  Sherman Dorn — Authority: 506
  In response to Florida Commissioner Eric Smiths weekend op-ed in the Tallahassee Democrat (responding to the December 13 op-ed by FSU physics professor Paul Cottle), Cottle says, roughly, okay, maybe not this year, but set a firm date for setting up EOC exams in all central science areas. Ill go further: Florida needs ...
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• Council reluctant to school disabled

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Fighting for special needs support becomes even more difficult when you have to battle a local authority A few years ago I sat in a school hall and listened to irate parents haranguing an education bigwig. The mood was simmering. The primary school was a haven for children with moderate learning difficulties, a ...
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