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	<description>Making the case for selective education</description>
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		<title>Obituary of Bill Kennedy Headmaster who restored discipline at his school and whose great-uncle wrote the definitive Latin primer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[513 words Publication date: 12 January 2010
Source: The Daily Telegraph Page: 33
(c) 2010 Telegraph Group Limited, London
BILL KENNEDY, who has died aged 97, was the former headmaster of Kirkham Grammar School in Lancashire and a member of a distinguished pedagogic family.
His great-uncle was Benjamin Hall Kennedy, the great 19th-century headmaster of Shrewsbury, the cover of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the results are this good, exams are failing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A-level achievement shows that able pupils and teachers are ready for even greater academic challenges.
CHRIS WOODHEAD   1462 words
Publication date: 15 November 2009 Source: The Sunday Times
Page: 1  (c) 2009 Times Newspapers Limited. All rights reserved   
    
Separated by the tiniest possible margin, six schools compete at the top of this year&#8217;s independent table for the coveted No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new role for grammar schools?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Newsam, former chief schools adjudicator, has come up with a radical proposal for the future of post-16 education. Could it catch on? 
Jessica Shepherd   1684 words
Publication date: 17 November 2009 Source: The Guardian
Page: 1  © Copyright 2009.  The Guardian.  All rights reserved.   
              
Students at the non-selective sixth-form college in Farnborough, Hampshire, achieved an average of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grammars set for new transfer tests</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Simon Doyle, Education Correspondent   
402 words Publication date: 10 November 2009
Source: The Irish News Page: Pg. 3
(c) 2009, The Irish News Ltd.  All Rights reserved.   
            
Grammar schools are making final preparations for new entrance tests starting this week. 
More than 7,000 primary seven pupils are expected to sit the first of three Common Entrance Assessment (CEA) papers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money buys the best state education</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Alison Shepherd   719 words
Publication date: 8 November 2009 Source: Independent On Sunday
Page: 44,45 (c) 2009 Independent News &#38; Media PLC   
    
Comment &#124; Every child deserves a good school place, says Alison Shepherd 
An education system that produces record-breaking GCSE and A-level results year after year ought to instil pride both in children and parents. And yet last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How a good school can add 125% to value of your house</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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By Sarah O&#8217;Grady Property Correspondent     551 words
Publication date: 4 November 2009 Source: The Daily Express
Page: 19 (c) 2009 Express Newspapers    
           
HOUSE prices are soaring in areas whose schools enjoy a good reputation as parents pull out all the stops for their children&#8217;s education. 
In what have become known as &#8220;educational super towns&#8221;, the average house price is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tories heading for grammar schools clash</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Kirkup
Political Correspondent
224 words
Publication date: 28 October 2009
Source: The Daily Telegraph  Page: 10  (c) 2009 Telegraph Group Limited
A TORY row over grammar schools  is expected to reignite with plans to expand selective schools.
David Cameron, the Conservative  leader, has opposed any expansion of grammar schools, angering many  Tory activists and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After 40 years, we still can&#8217;t get our schools right</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
663 words       Publication date: 17 October 2009
Source: The Daily Telegraph   Page: 27
(c) 2009 Telegraph Group Limited, London
Britain has the best schools in the world. They produce highly-educated pupils who go to the best universities in the world, which also happen to be in Britain. Put that way, you wonder what all the fuss was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brave new schools born on YouTube; Disillusioned with inadequate state schools, parents across the country are planning their own, report Zoe Brennan and Jack Grimston</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zoe Brennan and Jack Grimston
1174 words     Publication date: 18 October 2009
Source: The Sunday Times     Page: 9
(c) 2009 Times Newspapers Limited. All rights reserved
This is possibly the first revolution to have started over lasagne and salad. It&#8217;s certainly the first revolution ever to have affected Acton, in suburban west London, one warm September evening.
Over nibbles at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TESCO CHIEF SLAMS &#8216;WOEFUL&#8217; SCHOOLS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
By STEVE HAWKES Business Editor
410 words       Publication date: 14 October 2009
Source: The Sun          Page: 23
(c) 2009 News Group Newspapers.  All rights reserved
THE boss of Tesco yesterday slammed the Government&#8217;s record on education &#8211; saying school standards were &#8220;woefully low&#8221;.
Sir Terry Leahy said teachers were drowning in red tape and firms were &#8220;left to pick [...]]]></description>
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