On your marks, get set, recruit

Article Abstract:

Schools and colleges are now competing strongly for 16-year-olds, who can bring them 2,000 pounds sterling each. They are particularly keen to ensure that recruitment targets are met now that their income can be reduced in the following year if they fail to do so. Schools are offering new vocational courses to encourage pupils to remain there rather than go to college, and are also seeking to attract pupils with new sixth forms. There have been cases of schools preventing pupils from obtaining information about college courses and persuading pupils to remain in school against their best interests.

Analysis, School management and organization, School administration

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Britain lines up to fight for the soul of the countryside: the hunting lobby fires the first shot in what promises to be a bitter battle

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The UK's new Countryside Alliance is hoping to demonstrate that there is widespread opposition among ordinary people to a Private Member's Bill which would ban fox hunting. It is expected that a mass rally to be held in Hyde Park, London, England, on Jul 10, 1997, will attract at least 60,000 people who wish to see hunting retained. The alliance has invested around 50,000 pounds sterling in newspaper advertising. This sum has been exceeded by anti-hunting groups, which have joined forces to create the Campaign for the Protection of Hunted Animals.

Nature Parks and Other Similar Institutions, Recreational Hunting, Public opinion, Fox-hunting, Fox hunting, Hunting

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He was caught smuggling drugs. Now he's a computer whizz

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The work of the learning centre at Wormwood Scrubs prison, England, is discussed. Students must take a basic literacy and numeracy test and must demonstrate that they lack the skills required to take a GCSE.

Management, Education of prisoners, Correctional education

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