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  • Curriculum audit branded a 'whitewash'
    24 May 2012

    AN audit to find out how ready Scottish secondary schools are to deliver controversial new exams has been dismissed...

  • College to cut jobs and courses
    23 May 2012

    A COLLEGE in one of the most deprived parts of Scotland is cutting courses and jobs following Government funding...

  • Fixed-term teaching plan
    23 May 2012

    SCOTTISH teachers should get five-year fixed-term contracts as part of moves to drive up school standards, the...

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  • Spanish miners protest at cuts
    24 May 2012

    oviedo: A miner stands in front of burning barricades on the A-66 motorway, on the first day of a strikes to protest against the government's spending cuts in the mining sector, in Pola de Lena, near Oviedo, northern Spain.

  • Farm worker guilty of Terre'blanche murder
    23 May 2012

    A South African court has found a black farm worker guilty of murdering Eugene Terre'blanche, a white supremacist prominent during the dying years of apartheid, after a dispute over wages.

  • Niagara 'suicide' man survives
    23 May 2012

    ONTARIO: A man survived a plunge of at least 180ft over Niagara Falls in an apparent suicide attempt – only the third person known to have lived after going over the falls without a safety device.

  • 24 killed in Indian rail disaster
    23 May 2012

    At least 24 people were killed and dozens injured when a passenger train rammed into parked freight wagons and caught fire in southern India yesterday.

  • Sober ceremony after fatal blast
    23 May 2012

    Yemeni leaders led a sombre ceremony yesterday to mark the country's National Day, scaling back celebrations a day after a suicide bombing killed nearly 100 soldiers in a rehearsal for a military parade.