'Montessori isn't an exclusive club'
Philip Bujak has a dream. The chief executive of the Montessori St Nicholas
Charity hopes that one day every state primary school in the country will
have a Montessori teacher on their staff. But with only five state primaries
using Montessori practices in the UK, he knows he has a mountain to climb.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:48 +0000 Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Nicholson Baker, the American essayist and author of 'Vox' and 'The Fermata'
Nicholson Baker, 52, is the author of Vox, the novel about telephone sex
that Monica Lewinsky supposedly gave to Bill Clinton. Other novels include
The Fermata, the story of a man who can stop time, and, just out, The
Anthologist. His non-fiction includes Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World
War II, the End of Civilization, which came out last year.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Study better in cyberspace
The future is incontestably digital: the internet is changing the way we do all sorts of things, from shopping to working to running our social lives. Education, though, has so far largely remained anchored in the old world ? but even this is beginning to change.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Education Quandary: 'Our school may allow pupils to use mobile phones in the classroom. How can I best argue against it?'
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Bucks New University goes into business with industry
When Richard Galt returned from Japan a year ago, he resolved to break into advertising. So, he applied to JWT for a traineeship. They said the 25-year-old would make a good "creative" or "planner" but that first he needed to do a Master's course at Buckinghamshire New University.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Auriol Stevens: 'We should think about creating a private university in Winchester'
Should top independent schools set up a new private university on the lines of American liberal arts colleges, providing high-quality teaching, a broad curriculum and charging full fees?
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Mother knows best: Stars reveal the maternal advice they'll never forget
It's the advice we treasure for ever. As Mothering Sunday approaches, public
figures reveal to Holly Williams the words of wisdom given to them by the
most important women in their lives...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Sarkozy rumour: end of the affair? or a cruel hoax via Twitter?
An affaire d'ιtat? Two affaires de tit for tat? Or just an affaire de twitter which proves to be tat?
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Royal Opera to stage Anna Nicole story
The former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith will become the latest operatic heroine to meet a tragic end at the Royal Opera House when the musical version of her life story opens there on 17 February next year.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 The future of medicine has arrived
Doctors hailed a landmark in the advance of personalised medicine yesterday with the first case in which the sequencing of a patient's complete genome revealed the genetic cause of his disease.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 £80,000-a-week footballers fail to take pay cuts to save club cleaners
The reputation of football's playing fraternity was not enhanced yesterday when it emerged that 85 people had been shown the door by financially stricken Portsmouth while only two players had offered to take pay cuts to save the fate of the less well-off.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Berezovsky wins libel case over Litvinenko murder claim
The British-based businessman Boris Berezovsky has won his claim for libel after being falsely named on Russian state television as the man behind the murder of the former Moscow agent Alexander Litvinenko.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Officials apologise to members of family raped by 'British Fritzl'
Two sisters who were repeatedly raped by their father and gave birth to nine of his children were given an apology yesterday by the authorities which failed to protect them.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Hadron Collider to be closed amid fears of a very big bang
The world's single most complicated and expensive scientific experiment, designed to discover the "God particle" and recreate the conditions that existed at the dawn of creation, will be switched off for a year to correct a design problem that could break it apart if it ran on full power.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 What financial crisis? Number of billionaires hits new high
While for many people the effects of the worst recession since the Thirties
look likely to linger and unemployment remains high across the Western
world, for the planet's super-rich, things are looking very perky once again.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 With friends like these... Tory leader's ally puts his foot in it
David Cameron is privately "much more conservative" than the moderate public image he projects to voters, one of the Tory leader's closest allies has claimed.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Nick Clegg: 'We will not play games with other parties'
Nick Clegg's diary is in chaos this week. His one-year-old son Miguel developed breathing difficulties on Sunday night. The next morning Mr Clegg and his Spanish wife, Miriam, took him to their GP, who said he should go immediately to Chelsea and Westminster hospital. The initial treatment did not work and he was kept in for two nights. Although now back at home, he is still a bit wheezy.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 '24', a diplomatic row and a spy chief's lecture on torture
American officials have reacted with dismay to the charge by the former head of MI5 that US authorities deliberately concealed mistreatment of terror suspects from their British colleagues. The unexpected public statement by Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller is said to have significantly added to the strains in the relationship between the two countries on intelligence matters.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Pandora: Fred the Shred jets back into limelight
Sir, the champagne! Motor racing enthusiasts were treated to the sight of a distantly familiar face aboard yesterday morning's Gulf Air flight to Bahrain, departing just in time for the start of the 2010 Grand Prix season.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 'I saw Israeli bulldozer kill Rachel Corrie'
The final moments of Rachel Corrie, the American peace activist crushed to death beneath a pile of earth and rubble in the path of an advancing Israeli army bulldozer, were described to an Israeli court by an eyewitness yesterday.
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