Months of dedication and team work paid off today for students from Chase Terrace Technology College, Burntwood, when they were crowned the winners of Land Rover's TrackNAVCHALLENGE 2008, held at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon.Launched last year, TrackNAVCHALLENGE is a competition aimed primarily at 14-18 year olds. Teams of 4-6 are tasked with designing and building a radio-controlled 4-wheel
China earthquake - Teacher admits leaving pupils behind as he fled Chinese earthquake: A secondary school teacher has set himself dramatically against the tales of heroism arising from the Sichuan earthquake by describing how he callously abandoned his pupils to their fate.In an act of moral foolhardiness, Fan Meizhong set out on a blog his guiding principle: in matters of life and death, it's eve
I love the ambiguity in this clipping taken from Personnel Today magazine (and sorry it's wonky, that's just my usual inability to cut and/or scan things straight):Does this mean that 12% of teachers who have been attacked by a pupil subsequently needed to visit a doctor, or that 12% of teachers have been attacked by a pupil and subsequently needed to visit a doctor?If you can't see or don't care
Nightclub helps young pupils get in the grooveThis Is Lancashire, UK - May 5, 2008By Staff Reporter CHILDREN from Green Fold School were given the chance to hit the dance floor at a Bolton nightclub. The children, who suffer from various ...
The Central Board of Secondary Education in India plans to rank its affiliated schools based on the performance of their pupils in science and mathematics.
The rating system will be initiated soon to enable schools in India to compete better internationally. There are 9,581 CBSE schools worldwide, including 50 in the UAE.
Ashok Ganguly, chairman of CBSE [...]
Schools should prevent pupils from leaving school grounds during lunchtime to keep them away from nearby fast food outlets, a government trust said Friday. The School Food Trust believes that with a "stay-on-site policy" during lunch times, pupils...Technorati Tags: children's newswatch children's news kids news children kids youth news
This from the Times of London:Children are turning away from schoolwork because they see education as unhelpful to their ambition to become rich and famous as reality TV stars, a teaching union claims today.Their role models include David and Victoria Beckham and WAGs – wives and girlfriends of highly paid footballers – according to the Association of Teachers and Lecturers.It has put forward a motion for its annual conference this weekend saying that members are “appalled at the extent of the decline in this country into the cult of celebrity, which is perverting children’s aspirations and expectations”. It adds: “This compounds the subsequent sense of failure, alienation and low self-esteem when celebrity status is not achieved.”The union asked 300 teachers about whom their
A Serbian woman has turned down over 150 marriage proposals because she hasn’t met Mr Right. 150! So she’s known 150 men who have got closer enough to her to think a proposal will work! Or in Serbia does saying thank you after someone holds a door open constitutes the right to ask for their hand in marriage?Now 38, Milunka Dabovic, is still...read more | digg story
The education council of the regional government of Catalonia has forced a state school in Girona to admit [Shaima, a seven-year-old Moroccan girl] to participate in lessons. The girl, who refused to remove her veil, had been missing school for over a week. The mother, Noama, affirms that the decision to wear the hidjab, the scarf which leaves the face uncovered, is not due to family pressures. “Shaima did everything alone,” she says in one of many interviews, “the child has grown up until last year in Morocco with the paternal grandmother, from whom she took her religious habits.” […]But the public opinion does not seem to agree: according to the on-line survey launched by El Pais on the case of little Shaima, 76% of the Spanish believe that the use of religious symbols in class should be forbidden, while 24% are in favour.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) is urging elementary pupils to consider taking up nursing in college because the demand for nurses abroad is expected to rise until 2020, ABS-CBN News reported Tuesday.Carmelita Dimzon, POEA deputy administrator said there is now a greater demand for Filipino nurses in Saudi Arabia ....read more | digg storyhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/FESA
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The thought police are alive and well and living in Iowa.Steve Bitterman, a teacher at Southwestern Community College, Red Oak, Iowa, was fired yesterday after he urged his pupils not to take the story of Adam and Eve too literally. Bitterman was teaching a western civilisation course and often used extracts from the Old Testament as part of his lessons, but urged students to look beyond a literal interpretation of what he views as an "extremely meaningful story", believing such a reading would miss much of the poetic, metaphoric and symbolic content. After class, he also made the mistake of referring to the story as a "fairy tale" during a conversation with a student.The class was being broadcast to a second college in Osceola, Iowa, and it was a group of students from this class that reported Bitterman for "denigrating their religion". Bitterman's college has refused to comment on his dismissal, which it described as a "personnel matter".Speaking to Iowa newspaper the Des Moines Reg
For those who read Ian's blog this won't come as a surprise but for the others it will need an explanation. Ian Stuart, Head of Technology at Islay's High School in Bowmore, was all over the news in the last weeks together with his pupils from the School. Reason for that is the use of high tech ICT equipment, a special kind of light weight mobile computer, by all the pupils of Islay's High School, which helps them to do their homework on, write essays and email them to their teachers. This creates higher productivity and it will probably be more fun for the pupils to make homework with such a high tech device. Ian was the driving force behind this succesful project which attracted attention from schools in other parts of Europe as well. Today the BBC reported about this new project on their website.A quote from the BBC: A small corner of Scotland has big ideas about the future of education. Pupils on the island of Islay are the first in Europe to go digital, and are gaining admirin
Pupils visiting the Mentougou mountainous district in Beijing accidentally discovered several pieces of algae fossils a few days ago. Experts confirmed on August 30 that these fossils dated back one billion years. According to the Beijing-based The First newspaper, a few days ago a summer camp event was held in the Kunying Valley resort village of Wangping Town in the Mentougou District. Participating kids unexpectedly came across several stones, used as the pavement materials, that had images of ancient plants imprinted upon them. Geologists told The First that these stones are usually called "dolomitic calcareous". They are also fossils of neritic algae. The various forms of the ancient algae can be clearly seen on the fossils. The biggest fossil is 1 meter long, 0.5 meter wide and 0.3 meter thick. Geologists estimated that it might be multi-layered inside. Experts also said that they have discovered many fossils consisting of ancient animals, deep-sea creatures and
By Rhiannon Schmitt As a teacher I am fascinated by exceptional actions of children and youths every day. Various moments over the past year have left a lasting impression for me. For me, these moments offer precious insights into the manifestation of life’s virtues.DedicationEmily leaps up the stairs with her violin, her face flushed from a track meet. She’s exhausted, yet focuses on her lesson with impressive stamina. Alana dreads the heap of homework lurking ominously in her pack. Still, she concentrates on her music and an upcoming festival performance, where she ultimately earns a “Gold.” Flynn strives for weeks to make her “trill” sound like a bird. She glows with delight when she finally masters it! Felicia practices an incredible 7 times each week, surpassing everyone’s expectations.ExpressionRory hits the high "D" of a Mozart quartet with apparent ease, playing with the maturity and musicality of an older violinist. Now Braya plays, dancing and swaying dramatical
Apple’s new Imacs thats were unveiled today are definetly not hard on the eyes, or comes up short as far as specs go. These new iMacs are Built from aluminum and glass, are slimmer will come in two sizes: 20-inch and 24-inch. You can expect the glossy exterior which if you have owned an Apple previously you’ll be no stranger to, also the new very very sexy keyboards will be included as well. Head over to Engadget for a full rundown of Apple’s stock models, prices and specs…
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One night, I got into a nightclub, or on the subway. I can’t remember which one, but I’ve never been to a nightclub in my life. Anyway, I was either indoors or underground, minding my own business, when the subway/nightclub shook, and an attractive, tall brunette bumped into me.
She smiled and apologized, and I took this opportunity to strike out, er, strike up a conversation.
When I asked, “So, uhm… do you get on this stop often,” she smirked and ignored me.
I didn’t like her rudeness, so I decided to take a chance.
I looked the bitchy, high-heeled woman dead in her sunglasses and said, “So, I see you’re a big fan of Ray Charles.”
“What? No, I’m not, and I don’t talk to strangers,” she replied.
Sometimes you have to gamble, and I guess she was a Stevie Wonder fan. It was 50/50.
She got off at the 42nd street stop, where I figure the Intrepid was carrying her F-117 Stealth Bomber.
“Wait! You left your
Islamabad, April 16 (DPA) Hundreds of stick-wielding religious students swarmed roads in Islamabad Monday after a military helicopter apparently carried out aerial surveillance of their mosque compound.
The army chopper hovered over the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, for more than 15 minutes as at least two men clinging to it took pictures, the mosque’s deputy administrator Abdul Rashid Ghazi told journalists at a hurriedly called press conference.
Lal Masjid and two of its affiliated madrassas have been at loggerheads with the government for nearly three months over the demolition of illegal mosques in the capital.
“This action has infringed the privacy of our girl students and violated the basic human rights,” Ghazi said.
The aerial survey came as military commanders began a four-day meeting in the garrison town of Rawalpindi to discuss the internal and external security situation, and a day later thousands of people protested in the port city of Karachi against the si
Schools may play a helpful role in keeping children at a healthy weight during kindergarten and 1st grade, scholars say. Researchers at Ohio State University in Columbus and Indiana University in Bloomington have found that children tend to gain weight during the summer between kindergarten and 1st grade.The researchers examined information collected on 5,380 pupils in kindergarten and 1st grade as part of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten cohort. That information was gathered in the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 school years by the National Center on Education Statistics, an agency within the Education Department. According to the report, released in the April issue of the American Journal of Public Health, the body-mass index of children was typically larger and more variable in the summer between kindergarten and 1st grade than it was during the school year. “It’s basically a big picture of whether schools are part of the problem or part of the solution. In this case,
Daily Mail: Halal meat is being served to pupils in state schools without their knowledge, even if they believe the religious slaughter is cruel. Parents have reacted furiously after being sent letters telling them their children's school dinners have been all-halal for 'some time'. [...] The meat was introduced at four schools in the Reading area with a high proportion of Muslim pupils. But parents of non-Muslim pupils - between 20 and 50 per cent of the schools' roll -say they were not consulted. A spokesperson for Reading Borough Council said: "The decision was taken several years ago. Schools thought it was the appropriate choice for their multi-cultural community." On topic: The Brussels Journal: Forced Down Your Throat Cranmer: Compulsory halal meat in UK schools LGF: One-Way Multiculturalism in Britain
