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Teaching News and Events (1/12/12) Posted: 01 Dec 2012 02:00 AM PST Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: Schools: Too many children are starting school lacking the basic skills needed to access full-time education, Ofsted has warned. Too few schools in England are fully adhering to the admissions code governing how pupil places are allocated, their watchdog has said. Families’ chances of having a good local school depends too much on which part of the country they live in, warns England’s education watchdog Ofsted. The teaching of Christianity can be “incoherent” or “too stereotypical”, an academic leading a project to improve lessons in English schools has said. Any attempt to present as fact the view that God made the world could lead to new free schools losing their funding under government changes. Britain's top companies are failing to recruit enough skilled engineers because of a dire shortage of highly-trained graduates, Sir James Dyson has warned. A shortage of capacity for four and five-year-olds remains one of the biggest problems facing education authorities across England, it has been revealed. This video from the BBC compares the very different education systems of Finland and South Korea, both of which have topped an international league table. Hundreds of state secondary schools are entering pupils for two English qualifications at the same time in a bid to secure good grades and boost their standings in league tables. Academic standards at Burnage Media Arts College, Manchester, have soared since pupils were forbidden to use mobile phones. Next week's Teaching Events include: 1st December – World Aids Day 1st to 2nd December - Tree Dressing Day 1st to 21st December – Wallace and Gromit’s Great British Tea Party 3rd December – International Day of Persons with Disabilities 6th December – St. Nicholas Day 8th December – Bodhi Day

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