9 Mar 09 -
IN A span of 25 years, that is by 2034, a year before Brunei Darussalam's Vision of 2035, the Ministry of Education expects to be way ahead in achieving its objective of developing students into well-educated and highly-skilled people,...
9 Mar 09 -
TOP universities including Imperial College London, University College London and Cambridge face substantial cuts this year after losing out in the allocation of £1.6bn of research funding. Budgets for every university in England...
29 Dec 08 -
CHILDREN who are read to daily are likely to do better when they start school and be better behaved, according to a government study. Researchers at the Institute of Education found a correlation between mothers who believe it is important...
29 Dec 08 -
FOR years attendance was minimal at Tefft Middle School's annual parent-teacher conferences, but the principal did not chalk up the poor response to apathetic or dysfunctional families. Instead, she blamed what she saw as the outmoded,...
8 Dec 08 -
UNITED KINGDOM education minister, Sarah McCarthy-Fry, called on mixed schools to split the sexes for key subjects such as science to prevent boys "hogging the limelight". She suggested girls would be more likely to study...
8 Dec 08 -
TALKING is a good way for a person to look at what is in our mind. Expression and the movements of the mind are seen through the arrangements of words. Quiet often one could misinterpret what is said simply because they fail to understand...
3 Nov 08 -
THE students in the jewellery and metalsmithing class at Pelham Memorial High School painstakingly coiled copper and brass wires into necklaces the other morning, while across the hall, the history of rock 'n' roll class pondered the...
27 Oct 08 -
SOME very important visitors are coming to Brunei sometime soon, but I'm not allowed to tell you who they are. I have not been released from my oath of secrecy. Who's coming is an "official" secret, which in British English means...
15 Sep 08 -
PROFESSOR Alison Richards, the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, said this week that universities must focus on academic standards, not social engineering. The British government for years has been trying to persuade universities...
18 Aug 08 -
THIS weekend many A-level candidates will be basking in the glory of excellent examination results. For others, this will be an anxious time and important decisions need to be taken quickly. Judging by the telephone calls I made on...
