News 02/21/2012
The Supreme Court will once again confront the issue of race in university admissions in a case brought by a white student denied a spot at the flagship campus of the University of Texas ... Firms and charities are to be offered a payment-by-results scheme to try to get 55,000 "Neet" teenagers in England into work, education or training ... Labour education spokesman Stephen Twigg is calling for the creation of an independent office to raise standards in education in England ... The push to focus on science, technology, engineering, and math — the so-called STEM subjects — in preschools follows decades of advocacy by education experts and policy makers ... Malaysian officials order book shops to stop selling a sex education book by British author Peter Mayle, AFP news agency reports ... The funding of religious education in UK state schools is "frighteningly dependent" on the head teacher's personal stance, research suggests ... |