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Scouts Reach £100k Target for Nile 2010
Celebrations are underway after the 38th Bournemouth Scouts & Avon Explorers group announced the…
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The 100 in 100 Challenge is On!
To recruit 100 new apprentices or employers in 100 days
6th September 2010

Town Gets Its Clock Back
The Lansdowne clock chimes out for the first time in years
6th September 2010

Building the Way for Apprentices
Taking on apprentices to pave the way for the future.
3rd September 2010

From Ceramics Student To Professional Artist
Polina Knight has had her work shown in a porcelain exhibition
31st August 2010

BBC News | Education | UK

• First 16 'free schools' revealed The first 16 'free schools' to be set up are named by Education Secretary Michael Gove.
  Mon, 06 Sep 2010
• Former head jailed for sex abuse A former boarding school head teacher is jailed for 21 years for sexually abusing and beating pupils.
  Mon, 06 Sep 2010
• Student migration 'unsustainable' The number of foreign students let into the UK is "unsustainable", minister Damian Green will say in his first major speech on immigration.
  Mon, 06 Sep 2010
• Gove defends free school numbers Michael Gove says demand for new free schools has exceeded expectations but Labour says plans for 16 new institutions next year are "laughable".
  Mon, 06 Sep 2010
• Tory defects over schools scheme A Tory councillor defects to Labour over cuts to the government's schools building programme, saying she was "ashamed to be a Conservative".
  Sat, 04 Sep 2010
• Men in short supply in primaries One in four state primary schools in England has no male teacher, statistics show.
  Fri, 03 Sep 2010
• Music tuition falling, poll says Fewer children are learning to play a musical instrument than in their parents' generation, a survey suggests.
  Sat, 04 Sep 2010
• School lottery 'failed in aim' England's first city-wide lottery system aimed at solving the problem of allocating places at over-subscribed schools failed to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say.
  Thu, 02 Sep 2010
• Prodigy makes Cambridge history A 15-year-old maths prodigy is set to become the youngest undergraduate at the University of Cambridge for more than two centuries.
  Fri, 03 Sep 2010
• School meals 'help fussy eaters' School lunches can tempt fussy eaters to try new foods, a survey carried out in England for the School Food Trust suggests.
  Wed, 01 Sep 2010
• GCSE triumphs: Whizz kids and athletes Across England, Wales and Northern Ireland thousands of pupils are celebrating and commiserating with each other after receiving their results for their GCSE exams.
  Tue, 24 Aug 2010
• GCSE pupils score record results Teenagers score another GCSE record with almost seven out of 10 exams awarded a C grade or above, as separate science entries rise.
  Tue, 24 Aug 2010
• 'One in four' students unplaced The latest figures show that currently more than a quarter of UK university applicants are unplaced.
  Mon, 23 Aug 2010
• Did the new A* make the grade? Did the new A-level grade do what it said on the tin?
  Fri, 20 Aug 2010
• The bright pupils shunning university The bright, young things shunning university
  Thu, 19 Aug 2010
• No university place...? Go Dutch With UK students facing a tough battle for places at home, universities in the Netherlands are promoting themselves as an alternative - and still have spaces left for this year, reports the BBC's Jonty Bloom.
  Wed, 18 Aug 2010
• A* boosts record A-level results One in 12 A-level entries is awarded the new A* grade, as pupils attain record results.
  Thu, 19 Aug 2010
• Ditch the flute and get swotting, students told Oxford's head of admissions tells candidates it wants the academically gifted, not 'second-rate historians' who play the flute.
  Fri, 27 Aug 2010
• Why has studying French lost its élan? Is the big fall in the number of British school children studying French something to be concerned about?
  Fri, 27 Aug 2010
• Ellen MacArthur's global ambition Yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur has set herself a new challenge - creating an educational foundation to promote sustainability.
  Wed, 01 Sep 2010
• Shoesmith given leave to appeal Sharon Shoesmith is given leave to appeal over her sacking as the head of children's services at Haringey Council after the death of Baby Peter.
  Wed, 01 Sep 2010
• One in nine schools 'half empty' Figures obtained by the BBC suggest that in one in nine Scottish primary schools at least 60% of places are unfilled.
  Thu, 02 Sep 2010
• Imperial College expands overseas Imperial College is going to open its first branch outside the UK - a medical school in Singapore, run in partnership with a local university.
  Wed, 01 Sep 2010
• Higher student loan rates begin Millions of graduates will now start paying interest on their student loans again as new interest rates come into effect.
  Wed, 01 Sep 2010
• School gender views 'start early' Girls believe they are cleverer, better behaved and try harder than boys from as early as the age of four, research suggests.
  Wed, 01 Sep 2010
• Budget 'hits the poorest hardest' The coalition government's Budget announced in June has hit the poorest families hardest, says an economic think tank.
  Wed, 25 Aug 2010
• Charity loses gay adoption appeal The Charity Commission rejects an appeal by a Roman Catholic charity to allow it to discriminate against gay people seeking to adopt.
  Thu, 19 Aug 2010
• Warning over 'untracked' children Some children are not being educated because local authorities are often unable to track youngsters who are not being taught, inspectors warn.
  Tue, 17 Aug 2010
• Hundreds of playgrounds scrapped Hundreds of playground developments in England are being mothballed as the Department for Education cuts funding for them.
  Wed, 11 Aug 2010
• Adult drinking sparks child calls More than 100 children a week are turning to the ChildLine helpline with worries about their parents' drinking or drug use, the NSPCC says.
  Mon, 16 Aug 2010
• Row over bus breastfeeding claims A young mother says she was ordered off a Manchester bus because she was breastfeeding her baby.
  Wed, 11 Aug 2010
• Only 16 new free schools sign up Education Secretary Gove says there will be initially only 16 "free schools" in England set up despite 700 expressions of interest.
  Sun, 05 Sep 2010
• Schoolboy describes finding pipe bomb The suspicious object was left in the playground of St Comgall's Primary School and picked up by an eight -year-old pupil.
  Mon, 06 Sep 2010
• 'I was nearly six foot at 11 years old' President Barack Obama's daughter, Malia, is now 12 years old and 5ft 9in (1.75m). But what's it like to be a young girl who's taller than the rest?
  Fri, 03 Sep 2010
• 'Sailing taught me sustainability' Dame Ellen MacArthur tells how sailing around the world taught her how finite the planet is.
  Thu, 02 Sep 2010
• Group-think Why do UK leaders all study for the same qualification?
  Tue, 31 Aug 2010
• Blast from the past BBC Micros help train young student programmers
  Wed, 25 Aug 2010
• Young achievers Why are more pupils taking GCSEs early?
  Tue, 24 Aug 2010
• GCSE trends explained Single sciences and Polish are up, but French and ICT are down
  Wed, 25 Aug 2010
• Teen drift A scheme aimed at stopping teenagers from becoming NEETS, could soon be abolished.
  Fri, 27 Aug 2010
• 'Our nightmare' A couple wrongly accused of hurting their child tell their story
  Mon, 23 Aug 2010
• Psychology soaring... Subject trends and rising grades as A-levels change
  Fri, 20 Aug 2010

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