Learning for life, and life for learning
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Many UK schools are involved in community service projects. Some 83 schools with such projects have received awards from the Barclays New Futures competition, run by Barclays Bank and Community Service Volunteers. The competition aims to improve awareness of the fact that community service projects can be a valuable way of improving academic skills such as literacy and communication. Winning schools included Beacon Community College in Crowborough, England, which has a scheme under which pupils will teach younger pupils from 10 nearby primary schools about the environment.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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Beyond good and evil
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The UK should devise a national moral code which could be used by schools to instruct pupils in the difference between right and wrong, according to Dr Nick Tate, the government's chief curriculum adviser. Many teachers today are unwilling to give pupils any moral guidance at all for fear of damaging their self-esteem, and morality has become no more than a matter of taste. However, others feel that it is unfair to expect teachers to take on the role of instructing children in morals, especially as the government has reduced the teaching profession to a very low status.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1996
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