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Neat way for teens to get vital training
9:00pm Tuesday 27th July 2010
A COUPLE of years ago another annoying bit of Government jargon sneaked into the English language and became a buzzword among politicians.
Why institute is still a draw for arts masters
9:30pm Tuesday 25th May 2010
WHEN most students graduate from their courses they move on to pastures new.
Masterclasses for musical prodigies
9:10pm Tuesday 25th May 2010
IT’S the school of rock, pop, jazz and pretty much any other musical genre you might care to study.
It’s never too late to get back into learning
9:00pm Tuesday 25th May 2010
RECEPTION, infant, junior and secondary school, college and then maybe even university. That is the educational journey is set in motion for many from the age of just four.
Classes are teaching babies to talk before they can speak
9:00pm Wednesday 24th March 2010
Sign language classes for toddlers are helping them communicate with their parents...before they can speak.
Essex academy schools: Are they working?
1:00am Wednesday 24th February 2010
THE growth of school academies has been a hallmark of the New Labour years and there are now five in Essex. How effective are they?
£2m for temporary classrooms at Philip Morant
7:00am Wednesday 10th February 2010
TEMPORARY classrooms costing £2million will be built at a Colchester secondary school, just years before it gets a £27million upgrade.
School extends its China curriculum to Year 8 girls
4:59pm Monday 8th February 2010
ORIENTAL folk dancing and calligraphy were some of the classes pupils at a Colchester school got to grips with as part of a China Day.
Brainwave for a new wheelchair
7:10pm Tuesday 2nd February 2010
SCIENTISTS in Colchester have designed a robo-wheelchair which responds to brainwaves.
School deletes pupils' pictures from newsletter
4:00pm Tuesday 6th October 2009
A Braintree school's decision to remove photographs of pupils from the online version of its newsletter has been branded “ridiculous”.
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