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Tuesday 20 September - Moon?s Last Quarter 13:39 UT

Wednesday 21 September - UN International Day of Peace

Friday 23 September - Autumnal Equinox (Northern Hemisphere) 09:04 UT

Sunday 25 September - Daylight Saving Time begins (NZ)

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13 April 2014

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Primary schools to rise to 1000 pupils

A growing number of primary schools will have 1000 pupils or more - as extra classes are added to cope with a rapid increase in the birth rate.

The Department for Education says it is providing £4bn and relaxing building regulations so that new schools can occupy a smaller space - secondary schools by 15 per cent and primary schools by 5 per cent.

The rise of supersize primary schools reflects urgent efforts to find places for the surging numbers of pupils - with official figures showing that an extra 455,000 places will be needed in England by 2015.

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8 April 2014

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Education Quote

Education is a succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief - George Bernard Shaw (1856?1950)

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7 April 2014

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Qatar to be global knowledge hub

Billions of pounds are being pumped into an 'Education City' of 80 educational, research, science and community development organisations

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4 April 2014

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New Members? Area

Our Gold Membership area has been restructured and has a new log-in page http://mwls.com/gold/

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4 April 2014

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Happiness linked to long genes

Your overall happiness may depend in part on whether you drew the long or short version of a gene

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3 April 2014

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Domesday 1986 reloaded

In 1986 the BBC launched a project to record a snapshot of everyday life across the UK, but the technology to view it became obsolete. Now it is on the web

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3 April 2014

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4000 university teacher-training places axed

More than 10 per cent of university trainee-teacher places will be cut in the next academic year, raising fears of massive overcrowding in primary schools

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2 April 2014

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