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Schoolboy In Court After 14-Year-Old Dies

Fri, 25 May 2012 16:02:55 +0100

Tributes have flooded in for a Scottish schoolboy who died after suffering head injuries in an alleged school fight.

Brave schoolboy wins police award

Thu, 24 May 2012 22:02:56 +0100

A schoolboy who was stabbed while trying to prevent a fellow pupil being attacked and a man shot in the stomach while seeking to foil a robbery at a jeweller's have been honoured at a police bravery awards ceremony.

Aung San Suu Kyi to receive honorary Oxford doctorate

Thu, 24 May 2012 18:36:52 +0100

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to be awarded an honorary doctorate by Britain's prestigious Oxford University, her alma mater announced Thursday.

School clash boy dies in hospital

Thu, 24 May 2012 15:49:11 +0100

A 14-year-old schoolboy who collapsed during an altercation with another boy has died in hospital, police said.

Pupils help shape marine life laws

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:11:21 +0100

School pupils from across Northern Ireland have been praised for their role in lobbying Stormont on legislation aimed at protecting marine life.

Student banned over Muamba tweets

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:35:49 +0100

A British student jailed for making offensive Twitter comments about English Premier League footballer Fabrice Muamba after he collapsed during a match was on Tuesday banned from his university.

MPs hit out at nursery top-up fees

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:05:13 +0100

Some families are being denied access to free nursery education unless they agree to pay compulsory "top-up fees" for extra hours, a cross-party group of MPs has warned.

'Sister Witnessed Parents Kill Teenager'

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:44:19 +0100

The murder of a Pakistani-British college student by her parents was witnessed by her sister, a jury has heard.

'I’m not stopping yet': 91-year-old becomes Britain’s oldest masters graduate

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:33:30 +0100

Britain's oldest student has graduated from university aged 91- and is still planning to go on and do a PHD.

Bank of England's Posen says govt role needed to clean up euro zone banks

Mon, 21 May 2012 10:46:07 +0100

TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Adam Posen said on Monday that the euro zone crisis calls for governments' active role to recapitalise and clean up the region's banking system, saying monetary policy alone won't solve structural problems. "The biggest thing you need is forcefully injecting enough capital into the banking system," Posen said at a Tokyo conference on global financial regulation hosted by the Columbia Business School. "The source of current problems is not Greece... ...

Exam papers 'marked incorrectly'

Sun, 20 May 2012 18:00:00 +0100

Thousands of GCSE and A-Level exam papers could have been marked incorrectly last summer, according to a whistleblower.

8,450 students suspected of copying

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:09:13 +0100

Almost 8,500 students were suspected of copying in their university applications last year.

Call To Teach More Swimming At Primary School

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:32:05 +0100

Campaigners have called for swimming to be made a priority in sports lessons after a study revealed one in three children leaves primary school without the skill.

Boyle's 'autistic' comment attacked

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:45:03 +0100

Comedian Frankie Boyle has been attacked over his "sickening" comments about 2,100 schoolchildren who formed the Olympic rings in their school grounds to raise money for charity.

Funding review aids school projects

Tue, 15 May 2012 12:33:31 +0100

A series of delayed school maintenance projects are set to get the green light as part of a £72 million reallocation of funds in the Education Department.

Oliver blasts school food standards

Tue, 15 May 2012 12:09:46 +0100

Jamie Oliver has accused Education Secretary Michael Gove of "putting children's future health at risk" as new research showed many academies are now selling junk food.

Cambridge Students Asked To Be Egg Donors

Sat, 12 May 2012 16:42:24 +0100

Female students at Cambridge University say they have been offered hundreds of pounds to become egg donors for a couple unable to have children.

Timeline - News Corp and the phone-hacking scandal

Thu, 10 May 2012 17:34:26 +0100

(Reuters) - Here are the major events in the phone-hacking scandal at News Corporation. July 4, 2011 - A lawyer for the family of murdered British schoolgirl Milly Dowler says police have told him her voicemail messages were hacked in 2002, possibly by a News of the World investigator. The disclosure comes days after Britain gives its backing for News Corp to buy out British pay-TV group BSkyB. July 7 - News Corp announces it will close the News of the World. The July 10 edition is the last. July 13 - News Corp withdraws its bid for BSkyB. This pre-empts a planned vote in parliament. ...

Messages truth 'may never be known'

Wed, 09 May 2012 14:30:44 +0100

The truth about how murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone messages were deleted may never emerge, the Leveson Inquiry has heard.

London show celebrates modern age design innovation

Wed, 09 May 2012 13:52:56 +0100

LONDON (Reuters) - The Jaguar E-type, an LED dress and Concorde lead visitors through the last 60 years of British design in this summer's flagship exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Delving deep into its collection, the museum has put on display examples of British innovation, some of which have never been shown before. Everything from household knives and forks, to a Sex Pistols' album cover takes you through the last six decades, tracing the art school movement from the utilitarian mundane to the rock-n-roll rebels. ...

Police: Dowler phone hacked but deletions unclear

Wed, 09 May 2012 12:55:49 +0100

LONDON (Reuters) - Journalists on the News of the World tabloid did hack the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler but there is no conclusive evidence they deleted messages which gave her parents false hope she was still alive, British police said on Wednesday. It was a Guardian report last year that journalists on Rupert Murdoch's paper had accessed and deleted voicemails on Dowler's phone in 2002 which provoked the scandal that has embroiled the media magnate and his News Corp empire. ...

Body of missing boy, eight, found

Sun, 06 May 2012 23:09:19 +0100

Police have confirmed that a body found in a river is that of missing schoolboy Ian Bell.

Body Found In Search For Missing Schoolboy

Sun, 06 May 2012 22:51:40 +0100

Police searching for a missing schoolboy who disappeared after falling into a river have discovered a body.

School tests branded waste of money

Sun, 06 May 2012 15:15:10 +0100

Government plans to test 11-year-olds on their spelling and grammar have drawn fierce criticism from school leaders, who warned the move is a waste of taxpayers' money.

Ofsted chief under fire from union

Sun, 06 May 2012 14:06:58 +0100

Controversial Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has came under fire from headteachers who accused him of using negative tactics to raise school standards.

Student Kate Taylor becomes Labour councillor at tender age of 18

Fri, 04 May 2012 17:50:17 +0100

Schoolgirl Kate Taylor has become one of the youngest ever councillors in the country at just 18 years old.

Grammar schools 'must demand more'

Thu, 03 May 2012 01:14:33 +0100

Grammar schools may be failing to challenge their more able pupils and should raise expectations at GCSE level, a report has suggested.

PE 'Puts Half Of Girls Off Exercise For Life'

Wed, 02 May 2012 17:12:06 +0100

Half of all girls are so scarred by sport lessons at school that they are put off physical activity for life, according to a new survey.

MPs Call For Bad Teachers To Be Paid Less

Tue, 01 May 2012 08:54:57 +0100

Bad teachers could be paid less under new Government proposals aimed at driving up standards in state education.

Porn scandal priest to leave area

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:20:05 +0100

The priest at the centre of a stand-off over the accidental showing of pornographic images at a presentation to parents in a Co Tyrone primary school is to leave the area.

Timeline - News Corp and the phone-hacking scandal

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:24:34 +0100

(Reuters) - Here are the major events in the phone-hacking scandal at News Corporation. July 4, 2011 - A lawyer for the family of murdered British schoolgirl Milly Dowler says police have told him her voicemail messages were hacked in 2002, possibly by a News of the World investigator. The disclosure comes days after British government gives its backing for News Corp to buy out British pay-TV group BSkyB. July 7 - News Corp announces it will close the News of the World. The July 10 edition is the last. July 13 - News Corp withdraws its bid for BSkyB. This pre-empts a planned vote in ...

'Sexting' Putting Girls At Risk, Charities Warn

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:56:41 +0100

Young school girls are putting themselves in danger of bullying and sexual abuse by sending explicit photographs of themselves by text message.

Bayern leading the way on finances, study suggests

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:45:16 +0100

BARCELONA (Reuters) - If this year's Champions League title were awarded to the club with the soundest finances among the four semi-finalists Bayern Munich would probably win with Real Madrid runners-up, according to a study of their accounts published on Monday, Bayern and Real both reported a net profit in the accounts used for the study, 2010-11 for the Spaniards and 2009-10 for their German rivals, according to Jose Maria Gay, a professor of accounting at the University of Barcelona. ...

Murdoch mocks UK government as he arrives for ethics inquiry

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:49:12 +0100

LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch on Saturday mocked the UK government's "mad" plans to lend more money to the International Monetary Fund and criticised its energy, education and tax policies after arriving in London ahead of his appearance at a media inquiry next week. The 81-year-old News Corp boss will appear before a senior judge in London's High Court on Wednesday and Thursday as part of an inquiry ordered by Prime Minister David Cameron to investigate standards in the British press. ...

Jubilee 2012: Giant montage of the Queen to break world record

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:18:52 +0100

A giant image of the Queen made up of thousands of self-portaints of school children is set to break a world record for the most artists working on the same art installation.

March CPI does not change BoE view - Posen

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:44:34 +0100

LONDON (Reuters) - Figures showing that British inflation ticked up in March do not change the Bank of England's view of the economy, its policymaker Adam Posen said on Tuesday. "If the core inflation rate doesn't come down on a sustained basis, then we have got to rethink," he said at a conference at the London School of Economics. "One month of any data point, even one quarter, doesn't change (our view). ...

Truants' Parents Face Docking Of Benefits

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:42:51 +0100

Parents who let their children play truant from school could have their child benefit payments docked.

Oxford University, Vatican libraries to digitize works

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:27:53 +0100

LONDON (Reuters) - The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) said on Thursday they intended to digitize 1.5 million pages of ancient texts and make them freely available online. The libraries said the digitized collections will centre on three subject areas: Greek manuscripts, 15th-century printed books and Hebrew manuscripts and early printed books. The areas have been chosen for the strength of the collections in both libraries and their importance for scholarship in their respective fields. ...

Oxford University, Vatican libraries to digitise works

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:25:32 +0100

LONDON (Reuters) - The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) said on Thursday they intended to digitise 1.5 million pages of ancient texts and make them freely available online. The libraries said the digitised collections will centre on three subject areas: Greek manuscripts, 15th-century printed books and Hebrew manuscripts and early printed books. The areas have been chosen for the strength of the collections in both libraries and their importance for scholarship in their respective fields. ...

Tough questions in UK quest for Irish archive in Boston

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:45:15 +0100

BOSTON (Reuters) - Judges grilled a U.S. Justice Department attorney on Wednesday over the agency's attempts to help United Kingdom police gain access to a closed archive of interviews with fighters from Northern Ireland's sectarian conflict that is housed at Boston College. Tough questions from the three-judge Appeals Court panel gave hope to researchers battling to keep the archive mostly sealed since it was originally meant for historians to use years from now. A ruling could be several weeks away. "We're still kicking!" journalist Ed Moloney said after the hearing in Boston. ...