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Teenage Boys Wear Skirts to School to Protest Against 'No Shorts' Policy Dozens of pupils at Isca academy in Exeter stage uniform protest after school insists they wear trousers despite heatwave. Some had borrowed from girlfriends, others from sisters. A few had gone the extra mile and shaved their legs. When the Isca academy in Devon opened on Thursday morning, an.
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20 Year Old Oluwasona Sets Record, Graduates With 5.0 CGPA In Poland ANOTHER young Nigerian has again made academic history in far away Poland, graduating with a Cummulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.0 in Computer Technology.
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High school kills conservative summer reading list (Yellow Hammer News) According to a report by Gulf Coast News Today, officials from Spanish Fort High School have pulled a summer reading list assigned to students in AP Government & Economics taught because of complaints that it was too conservative. The list was sent to students by their teach.
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French Development Agency Loans Morocco EUR 80 Million for Education Rabat – The French Development Agency (AFD) has granted Morocco a EUR 80 million loan to finance the National Education Strategy 2015-2030. Minister of National Education Mohammed Hassad and the French ambassador to Morocco, Jean-François Girault, chaired the signing of two financing conventi.
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The Smallest School in the EU Is in Greece With Only One Student The smallest school in the European Union is in Arkoi — a small island in the Dodecanese in Greece — and has only one student. Arkoi has a surface of only 6.7 square kilometers, It is located east of Patmos. In June, the island’s only student just finished second grade. Now the 8-y.
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Al Akhawayn University: 34% of Students Receive Financial Aid Rabat – Ifrane's Al Akhawayn University announced on Thursday that 34 percent of its students received financial aid in 2017. Scholarships were awarded to 770 students – 220 were merit scholarships, and 550 were based on financial need. The English-language university has a yearly budget of .
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Government Ministers Have Failed, Including Me: Othmani Encourages Low Baccalaureate Scorers Rabat – Prime Minister Saaddine Al Othmani headed the government council on Thursday morning to congratulate the students who successfully passed the baccalaureate examination. "We should congratulate the students who succeeded at passing the baccalaureate tests as well as the parents, teac.
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38 Nigerian universities increase their tuition fees [Full list] No fewer than 38 universities across Nigeria have jerked up their fees. The increment might be attributed to poor funding by the federal and state governments. Recall that Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), poorly rated the President Muhammadu Buhari in the area of funding of university .
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Fourth Grader Makes Heartbreaking Video About Racist Classmates Calling Her 'Nutella' and 'Servant' She said she appealed to teachers for help and they did nothing. A 9-year-old girl in Bellevue, Washington posted a heartbreaking video on Facebook in which she described how in her fourth grade year, she has found out what it's like to be the victim of racist bullying.CBS News said that Ardm.
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Colorado to arm teachers in classrooms (BBC News) Teachers are being trained to carry guns in classrooms in Colorado in order to protect children as part of a scheme motivated by a school massacre in 2012. The three-day course, which consists of firearms and medical training, was launched on Tuesday in Weld County. Seventeen members of s.
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Why Alberta child-care centres are talking mental health with preschoolers The province's Early Child Development Mapping Project collected data on more than 70,000 kindergarteners and found one in four were having trouble in social and emotional maturity..
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$Former Halifax guidance counsellor sounds alarm on counsellor-student ratios$
Former Halifax guidance counsellor sounds alarm on counsellor-student ratios A former guidance counsellor from Halifax says the Department of Education needs to readjust the ratio of counsellors to students across Nova Scotia to ensure proper mental health supports. .
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Regulate distances between schools, fast food restaurants: N.B. dietitians Dietitians on a Mission, a group of New Brunswick volunteer dietitians, are on a quest to try and lower the obesity rate among youth in the province..
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WAEC announces new fees for collecting certificate The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has urged GCE candidates to endeavour to collect their certificates within four years of writing the examination as any delay beyond that will attract custody fee. Demianus Ojijeogu, the Head of Public Affairs Department, WAEC, Nigeria disclosed this in.
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Highest Score of the Baccalaureate Goes to Imane Touil from Sidi Bennour, Says Media Reports Rabat – Each year, the highest scores of the Baccalaureate surface on media's front pages to highlight the most accomplished candidate in the annual examination. This year, the story that surfaced is not that of a student from the big cities. Rather, it is one of a girl from a small village ca.
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Baccalaureate Exams: Oriental Region Receives Top Scores Rabat – A total of 156,042 candidates enrolled in public and private high schools have successfully passed the June 2017 Baccalaureate regular session, with a success rate of 50.28 percent. The number of candidates who successfully passed the June semester examinations of the baccalaureate for.
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Does this sketch prove JFK assassinated by 2 gunmen? (DAILY MAIL) — A sketch drawn by one of the surgeons who operated on John F. Kennedy after his fatal shooting that contradicts the official story has gone up for auction. Dr. Robert McClelland, who drew the image, had held Kennedy’s head in the operating theater after the president was s.
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Nova Scotia pre-primary program may further disadvantage students with autism: Advocates Pouring more cash into mainstream school programs while issues with inclusion are outstanding is leaving some Nova Scotians sour. .
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Company hired to look at safety of school zone just outside of Moncton Anglophone East School District's education council has joined the ongoing battle in trying to get the provincial government to lower the speed limit surrounding a school just outside Moncton. .
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Edmonton Public Schools' $1.1B budget comes with $18M deficit The Edmonton Public School Board announced Tuesday its 2017-18 budget comes with an $18 million deficit..
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