School budgets would be protected for the next five years, Gordon Brown announced today as he had promised to spend more money to improve education and prevent young generation is losing the recession.
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The UK is crumbling international classification of graduation rates and now sends a smaller proportion of young people leaving school at the University of the Slovak Republic, Ireland and Portugal, according to a major study of global education.
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Schools in the midst of Britain’s education authorities do not have a director of one week before the start of the new term, a survey by The Times suggests.
Experts fear that the impending retirement of many principals, and a growing reluctance among managers to become leaders in school, could provoke a crisis management.
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Here are some funny quotes from students on music exams:
01 – The principal singer of nineteenth century opera was called pre-Madonna.
02 – Gregorian chant has no music, just singers singing the same lines.
03 – Sherbet composed the Unfinished Symphony.
04 – All female parts were sung by castrati. We don’t know exactly what they sounded like because there are no known descendants.
05 – Young scholars have expressed their rapture for the Bronze Lullaby, the Taco Bell Cannon, Beethoven’s Erotica, Tchaikovsky Cracknutter Suite, and Gershwin’s Rap City in Blue.
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Evidence that some high-ranking universities are willing to accept applicants from China and India who are less skilled than those in the United Kingdom has emerged from a Sunday Times investigation, write Geraldine Hackett and Max Colchester.
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A classroom full of first year Veterinary students were participating in their first day of anatomy class. For the lecture, the professor begins by unveiling a dead cow under a white sheet laying on an operating table.
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