Thy English Academy wishes all students in London and their families a happy Easter holiday. We hope that you find time to enjoy the (few) hours in the sun and have nice meals surrounded by your loved ones. Take your time to relaxe and we are looking forward to starting into the final term full […]
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Schools in Red Lodge, Suffolk are highly oversubscribed. Especially primary school kids find it hard to obtain a space at a local school. Hence, the town has submitted a proposal for the construction of a new primary school. The department of education has now taken the plans into consideration. If everything works according to plan,
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A major report covering data from the last 4 years has revealed strengths as well as weaknesses of the Scottish education system. While Bill Maxwell, Scotland’s chief education inspector highlights that much good has already been accomplished, he is determined to improve the system even more. Areas for improvement include exploiting the whole flexibility of the
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Jaelithe Leigh-Brown proposes to include Yoga and meditation in everyday lessons. Although this idea seems very unusual at first, there is a reason for her proposal. Nowadays, people are always on-call and never offline. They are constantly in working mode from a very early age on. Hence, students as young as 10 years old can
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During the first years after WWII, teachers were asked to focus on the positive power of arts in conveying their lessons. They were advised to use dance, music and drawing to bring the subjects across more vividly. This way, the students were supposed to remember the material more easily. Now, more than 60 years later,
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Qasim Salahudeen, an 11-year old student at Noon Ul Islam Primary School, belongs to the top 6% of students nationwide. The little man beat 250.000 peers in a nation wide Maths test. His father states that he always knew his son was special. He could solve jigsaw 3D puzzle when he was a toddler without
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While most of the time, when taking about education in India the media reports the downfall of education for poor children, these days India has been in the news for its outstanding success in the worldwide university ranking. With 33 Indian university in the Top 300 global universities list, India has truly shown that its
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Thanks to healthy food campaigns and easy-to-understand labeling of products, adults – and children – are nowadays very aware of what they consume. This change from a society living of fastfood has happened in the past ten years, not at last with the help of charities, community interest companies and the government. Every item we buy
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The house of lords is currently working on a case study investigating connections between the build up of the education system and the theatre industry. Slowly it is becoming clear, they say, that the skills required for a job in this area are not learnt at school. Hence, starting of in this field becomes incredibly
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Specialists, including psychologists and neuroscientists have been arguing about the place of learning styles in the classroom. It is clear that some students are so-called auditory learners and others learn visually more easily. However, experts warn now that although these students might find it easier to learn one or another way, they nevertheless learn through
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