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Why don't more girls study physics?

Girls studying physics at Lampton school in Hounslow: from left, Yasmin Khatri, Fitri Norshakila Muhamad, Sushmanjit Kaur, Sadaf Rezay, Minal Patel, Farzana Hussin and Alice Williams. Photograph:…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 30, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2105 words)

Dear Sir, I'm sorry: letters of apology to former teachers

Education secretary, Michael Gove has apologised to a former teacher. What would you say? Photograph: Gideon Mendel Tim DowlingBrien McMahon High School, Norwalk, ConnecticutDear Ms Papastathis,I…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 23, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3121 words)

'I wish someone had told me the relationship with my teacher was not my fault'

The consequences of a pupil's relationships with a teacher can be devastating. Photograph: Barbara Evripidou/SWNS.com Sophie has always cursed the teacher who seduced then abused her when she was a…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2111 words)

Bradford free school fiasco: the hard lessons learned

Matthew Band, chief executive of the One in a Million charity that was working to open a free school in Bradford. Photograph: Lorne Campbell/Guzelian Two years ago, in the final, adrenalised days of…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 10, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2493 words)

When school is out: gay-friendly education in the US

Non-conformists welcome … Nate Snarski, Eli Santiago and Sommer Kersten at Alliance High School, where if a problem like bullying occurs, the ‘other students don’t tolerate it and the teachers take…
PUBLISHED: July 27, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2450 words)

Breadline Britain: Demand grows for school breakfasts

A few minutes spent leafing through the forms sent to charities by schools hoping to get funding to provide pupils with free breakfasts builds up a vivid picture of how teachers all over the country…
PUBLISHED: June 19, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2279 words)

the day the head of Ofsted visited one school

An Ofsted inspection is always a stressful time for a school. It could be the moment when hard work is finally garlanded with a glowing report, or the occasion when a single teacher…
PUBLISHED: March 27, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2797 words)

Why I refused to go to school

We were watching Family Fortunes. I was 11 – a late-blooming August baby who looked more like a nine-year-old. A Sunday evening: the end of my first week at high school. It was darkish: my dad…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 13, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2808 words)

So who is good enough to get into Cambridge?

PUBLISHED: Jan. 10, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2687 words)
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