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Archive page for Thursday, 15 June 2006

 Th, Jun 15, 2006
New customer
Another new customer! Waterloo School in Tameside, it's fresh this minute so not a lot going to happen for a few days. Welcome Waterloo ;-)
# Posted by Steve Hooker at 15/6/06; 9:54:21 AM to the Walsall Schools business dept.
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New customer



Off to Aberystwyth today
My dear old car is doing some miles of late. Yesterday was Prestatyn, today Aberystwyth.

Nice days to drive about in though, better than being stuck in a darkened room. And 'Aber' is a gorgeous town, I've heard much of but never visited before.
# Posted by Steve Hooker at 15/6/06; 9:33:24 AM to the Walsall Schools business dept.
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Off to Aberystwyth today



No such thing as society
icWales: Saving Village Schools: In a bold office-based exercise, Carmarthenshire's education officers have mapped out a list of centralised area schools to replace practically the whole network of village primary schools.
# Posted by Steve Hooker at 15/6/06; 9:19:30 AM to the Edu business dept.
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No such thing as society



More for the curriculum
BBC:Tories want more history lessons: "The Tories are calling for children to be given at least a "basic knowledge" of British and world history."

Money News: Norwich Union Insurance: Financial education pays dividends: "Compulsory financial education should be introduced into the national curriculum, Norwich Union Insurance has claimed today."

# Posted by Steve Hooker at 15/6/06; 9:14:06 AM to the Education news dept.
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More for the curriculum



Comfy shoes
BBC: Young children 'learn homophobia': "On average, girls who find out that they are lesbian do not reveal this to anyone for three years, for fear of abuse or ridicule.

Some schools had asked homosexual pupils to leave as they were unable to cope with homophobic bullying."

Pink News: Polish education minister bans gay rights book "The head of teacher training in Poland has been sacked after distributing a human rights manual which describes the types of discrimination lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people may face."

# Posted by Steve Hooker at 15/6/06; 9:11:12 AM to the Education news dept.
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Comfy shoes



The nobs have it
BBC: Top editors 'educated privately': "More than half the UK's top 100 journalists went to private schools, a survey for an educational charity says.... Young, independently educated aspiring journalists, they argued, are just more confident, knowledgeable and self-sufficient at an earlier age than their state school counterparts."

# Posted by Steve Hooker at 15/6/06; 9:07:31 AM to the Education news dept.
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The nobs have it



Cocking a deaf 'un
eSchool: Teacher-proof ring tone latest 'teen buzz': "A technology using ultra-high frequency sound to drive teenage loiterers away from shopping centers in the U.K. has been hijacked by tech-savvy teens to create an inaudible cell phone ring tone. Students are employing the technology to surreptitiously use mobile phones in class by creating ring tones that most adults cannot hear."

# Posted by Steve Hooker at 15/6/06; 9:02:05 AM to the Blogging news dept.
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eSchool News online - Teacher-proof ring tone latest 'teen buzz'