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Teacher retires after 36 years
10:40am Wednesday 23rd July 2008
THE longest-serving teacher in the Selby area, Dave Milburn, is retiring after 36 years at Barlby High School.
Comments (0)School’s delight
10:36am Wednesday 23rd July 2008
TWO floods in three years have failed to stop a York school receiving a glowing Ofsted report.
Having a ball for charities
10:34am Wednesday 23rd July 2008
TWO very young “newly-weds” and a girl whose life was saved by air ambulance are inviting friends to join them at a charity ball.
Recognising achievements
9:01am Wednesday 23rd July 2008
THE success of hundreds of students has been celebrated in the first ceremony to recognise those taking vocational qualifications.
Tributes to former school headmaster
5:00pm Tuesday 22nd July 2008
A FATHER-OF-THREE who used to be responsible for the education of hundreds of York pupils has died after a short battle with cancer.
Sats fiasco hits schools
11:30am Tuesday 22nd July 2008
HEAD teachers in Selby have spoken out about the national fiasco surrounding the marking of Sats exams.
On your Marks!
2:40pm Monday 21st July 2008
TWO York church primary school head teachers are taking on new challenges after clocking up over two decades as head teacher between them.
York education chiefs hit out over exams fiasco
8:20am Monday 21st July 2008
EDUCATION chiefs in York have hit out at the way the release of the Sats exam results has been handled.
School’s out for head teachers
10:50am Sunday 20th July 2008
HE HAS been the head teacher at one of York’s largest secondary schools for more than a decade, but now he is signing off.
University degrees system ‘descending into a farce’
9:50am Friday 18th July 2008
THE UK’s university degree classification system is “descending into farce”, a North Yorkshire MP and former head teacher has said.
Exam results delay anguish
9:08am Friday 18th July 2008
THOUSANDS of school pupils in York, North and East Yorkshire could face an agonising wait until September to find out their Sats exam results.
Tadcaster school pupil’s magic flute
2:12pm Thursday 17th July 2008
THIS Tadcaster student’s skill at playing the flute has earned her a place at a top London college.
An excellent way to help your pupils
1:49pm Thursday 17th July 2008
A PRIMARY school has become the first in York to be given a new type of award for learning.
School shows it’s got the X-factor
2:05pm Thursday 17th July 2008
HAS St Joseph’s RC Primary School, in Pickering, got talent?
Everything in our garden’s lovely!
1:50pm Thursday 17th July 2008
BECKY Storey, an assistant at the Happy Jays Nursery, is pictured in the nursery’s garden with, from left, Harry Price, Riley Mills, Millie Price and Libby Reynolds-Harding.
Pupils breaking sweat
11:36am Wednesday 16th July 2008
A group of schoolboys are putting the attitude back into dance. Education reporter HAYDN LEWIS found out about the team from York’s All Saints’ RC School who have scooped a top national title for breakdancing.
Pupils in fair effort
10:54am Wednesday 16th July 2008
STUDENTS from Applefields Special School, in York, are holding a summer fair on Saturday.
A degree for Doctor John
10:53am Wednesday 16th July 2008
HE has become one of the most famous and respected religious figures in the UK, cut up his dog collar on live TV, done a charity parachute jump – and now the Archbishop of York has been awarded an honorary degree.
Centres may get one head teacher
7:50pm Tuesday 15th July 2008
THE care of pupils excluded from York schools is set to come under the leadership of one head teacher.
Out of Africa, into the class
2:48pm Tuesday 15th July 2008
A GROUP of teachers from west Africa has visited two primary schools in York to share ideas about education.
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Parents call for scrapping of Sats
Updated 1:42am today Thursday 24th July 2008
Parents feel "totally let down" by this year's national curriculum tests fiasco and want to see them abolished, a parents' group has announced.
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Recognising achievements
THE success of hundreds of students has been celebrated in the first ceremony to recognise those taking vocational qualifications.
Common sense in meltdown
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TOMATO growers in India are singing the praises of an innovative York company.
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