Education | Record test results by black teenagers close education gap

By Sarah Cassidy, Education CorrespondentPublished: 27 October 2006
Black schoolchildren have started to close the gap in educational performance on their white classmates by doing better than ever in tests for 14-year-olds.
But they failed to narrow the gap at GCSE despite a £1.7m government drive to improve the performance of black students.
An independent analysis of the [...]

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Study on Sabbath: Part 1

The whole issue of what Sabbath is and who it is for has been a source of intrigue and dispute within Christianity. For those who will say it is the only commandment that is no longer binding (what is that about?) to those who don’t understand the difference between a high day sabbath, i.e. one [...]

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Help!!!!!

Ok it’s half term. I have my kids and my niece and nephews for three days.It ain’t gonna be cheap but heck, I am looking forward to it.

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Congrats Mr and Mrs Ball

Welcome Baby Ellie to this world
Well done guys. Well proud of you!

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Phlebotomy

(Came across this word, yesterday!)
The removal of blood from a vein. Phlebotomy may be used to obtain blood for diagnostic tests or to treat certain conditions, for example, iron overload in hemochromatosis.

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Black History Month. Who cares?

October is Black History Month in the UK. Whilst pockets of the African/Caribbean communities in the UK have always celebrated their history, it wasn’t until 1987 that the formal celebration of black history month came around. It has been something that I have been very passionate about, to educate not just the black community, but [...]

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Phone Upgrades

Went into a phone shop to look to upgrading my phone. After my post here. My friend Ewan who knows most there is to about mobiles helped me a long with a post here on his blog.
Well I am convinced that I will get a Blackberry Pearl. I just love it.Have you seen it?

Watch this [...]

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All I Want 4 Christmas….

..Just in case you were asking

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Good News from Sudan

I have an RSS feed to some of the good news stories from around the world. Makes such a change from the depressing stuff we get fed through to us, 24-7. Anyway. Have a read of this article.
Hajja Suaad, 55, is a displaced woman from Tawila, in Darfur, Sudan. Living in a relief camp with [...]

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Liberation Theology

I have always been intrigued with liberation theology. Liberation theology is thought to have started with Dietrich Boenhoffer, one of my favourite Christian activists and scholars. For those who don’t have a clue what I am talking about let me give a quick breakdown of what it is about by quoting from wikipedia
liberation theology explores [...]

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