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Education News for 27 February 2008

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A timetable to try to drive up standards in schools across Wales

Feb 27 2008

WALES' new Chief Inspector for Education and Training, Dr Bill Maxwell, said he was confident measures were in place to improve schools....

Year 9 pupils told to write ‘suicide’ notes in class

Feb 27 2008

A SCHOOL yesterday defended the decision of one of its teachers to get pupils to write “suicide” notes in class....

Auschwitz visit for schoolchildren

Feb 27 2008

PUPILS from a high school are preparing for a life-changing history lesson....

Parents start to take lessons into their own hands

Feb 27 2008

PARENTS looking for an alternative education for their children have set up their own school....

Help celebrate a bilingual history

Feb 27 2008

A VILLAGE school is looking to past pupils to help celebrate its 40th birthday....

Grieving mum: ‘Getting schoolchildren to write suicide notes is just so wrong’

Feb 27 2008

THE mother of a young Bridgend suicide victim has criticised a school in which pupils were asked to write suicide notes as part of an English lesson....

Welsh language-technology gets global recognition

Feb 27 2008

TECHNOLOGY aimed at helping businesses use the Welsh language has been so successful it is being copied as far afield as China and Sri Lanka....

‘Postcode lottery’ of Welsh school success

Feb 27 2008

THE gap between Wales’ best and worst performing schools has widened and around one in 10 schools are “clearly not doing well enough”, the nation’s education watchdog warned yesterday....