16 November 2011 Last updated at 18:27 Share this page Ekaterinburg Olympic school: Grappling for sporting success. Duration 7,12 The Olympic medal tally was source of national pride in Soviet times, but coming third in the medals table at Beijing in 2008 and sixth at the Winter Games in 2010 prompted Russian President Medvedev to declare something must be done. As the country looks forward to hosting the world's sporting talent at the 2014 Winter [...]
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15 November 2011 Last updated at 11:49 Share this page Usain Bolt says he is indebted to his PE teacher He may be the fastest man on earth, but there is one person Usain Bolt says he will never leave behind. She is PE teacher Lorna Thorpe who set him on track to his Olympic gold medals and a world-beating 100m record time of 9.58 seconds Lorna Thorpe says Usain Bolt was always full of [...]
14 June 2011 Last updated at 21:10 ET Share this page Girls are often put in higher streams than boys at a young age One in six children are being streamed by ability by the age of seven, according to research by the Institute of Education. The researchers also found boys were more likely to be placed in the bottom stream than girls. They also found statistically children born in the autumn are more likely [...]
14 June 2011 Last updated at 09:07 ET Share this page by Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent The buildings wanted by the free school are being put on sale for upmarket residential development Parents wanting to set up a free school in north London have been angered by the council's sale of their planned premises. Proposals for a primary school in Belsize Park had intended to use empty council-owned hostel buildings. But Camden council [...]
13 June 2011 last updated at 03:50 ET Share this page the advert features a school age child A head teacher has expressed anger at a holiday advert which he said tempted parents to take children out of school during term-time. The Butlins advert offers a free place to an adult paying the full price for a child in term-time. Graham Browne, head of Tor Bridge High School, Plymouth, said taking children out of school [...]
13 June 2011 last updated at 19:03 ET Share this page By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Complaints about universities have risen for the fifth consecutive year Student complaints against universities in England and Wales have reached record levels, the higher education ombudsman's annual report shows. The independent adjudicator's office says complaints rose by 33%. For the first time it names two universities, Westminster and Southampton, which failed to comply with the adjudicator's rulings. [...]
13 June 2011 Last updated at 12:46 ET Share this page Fees protests in London last year ended in violence several times Half of parents feel they have not received enough information about the new university tuition fees system, research suggests. And a third of the 630 parents of 13-21-year-olds quizzed for Universities UK said they had little or no understanding of the new system. UUK president Sir Professor Steve Smith said the need for [...]
9 June 2011 last updated at 21:05 ET Share this page by Emily Buchanan BBC News, in Ghana Sponsoring a child in the developing world is a popular form of charitable giving. but what do the children themselves make of the system? When Priscilla was a child, a donor many thousands of miles from her Ghanaian village helped pay for her schooling. For years she exchanged letters with her British benefactor. Now she is 20, [...]
9 June 2011 last updated at 11:12 ET Share this page by Angela Harrison Education correspondent, BBC News Student well Edwin Li Ping Wah: "I spent 15 minutes on that question" England's exams watchdog is investigating a total of six mistakes in exams taken by tens of thousands of students. The latest are in a geography AS-level paper and a business studies GCSE. Ofqual has said the series of errors in this year's public exams [...]
10 June 2011 last updated at 19:07 ET Share this page by Hannah Richardson BBC News education reporter Sir Chris famously estimated that there were 15,000 incompetent teachers A former Ofsted head, a universities' leader and a super-head are among those working in education rewarded in the Queen's birthday honours. Outspoken former Ofsted chief inspector Sir Chris Woodhead is knighted, along with Universities UK chief Professor Sir Steve Smith. Super-head Dr Reena Keeble from a [...]
