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Uni boffins’ house of the future

8:00pm Thursday 26th August 2010

ESSEX University researchers have joined forces with academics and companies in Germany, France and Greece to find a way of making technology work more efficiently with our everyday lives.

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Two into one does go at Clacton Coastal Academy

8:00pm Thursday 26th August 2010

The Clacton Coastal Academy was established last September, by merging the under-achieving Colbayns High School with the struggling Bishops Park College, which had come out of special measures just weeks earlier.

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Neat way for teens to get vital training

9:00pm Tuesday 27th July 2010

A COUPLE of years ago another annoying bit of Government jargon sneaked into the English language and became a buzzword among politicians.

Why institute is still a draw for arts masters

9:30pm Tuesday 25th May 2010

WHEN most students graduate from their courses they move on to pastures new.

Masterclasses for musical prodigies

9:10pm Tuesday 25th May 2010

IT’S the school of rock, pop, jazz and pretty much any other musical genre you might care to study.

It’s never too late to get back into learning

9:00pm Tuesday 25th May 2010

RECEPTION, infant, junior and secondary school, college and then maybe even university. That is the educational journey is set in motion for many from the age of just four.

Classes are teaching babies to talk before they can speak

9:00pm Wednesday 24th March 2010

Sign language classes for toddlers are helping them communicate with their parents...before they can speak.

Essex academy schools: Are they working?

1:00am Wednesday 24th February 2010

THE growth of school academies has been a hallmark of the New Labour years and there are now five in Essex. How effective are they?

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£2m for temporary classrooms at Philip Morant

7:00am Wednesday 10th February 2010

TEMPORARY classrooms costing £2million will be built at a Colchester secondary school, just years before it gets a £27million upgrade.

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School extends its China curriculum to Year 8 girls

4:59pm Monday 8th February 2010

ORIENTAL folk dancing and calligraphy were some of the classes pupils at a Colchester school got to grips with as part of a China Day.

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