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UK Kids Caught in Materialistic Trap: UNICEF

The research shows that the parents lose out on time due to working schedule and this causes a distress among children. In a bid to make up with their children, parents buy expensive gadgets, gifts and branded cloths for them

Turkish Hackers Deface Major Websites, Tweet They Did So for Fun

Cyber attacks on the rise globally
A number of major sites have had their DNS settings hacked today and many visitors redirected to a Turkish hacker's Web site.The hacked Web sites include The Daily Telegraph, UPS, Vodafone, National Geographic and The Register among others. All the hacked Web sites are currently experiencing disruption according Zone-H, a site that monitors Web site defacements.The hackers responsible told The Guardian in an email interview that they were expert in exploiting web vulnerabilities and ...
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Clearing 2011

A-Level Results 2011: All the Latest UCAS Clearing Information

Tens of thousands of UK students who have not made the grade for their chosen university now face a scramble to get a place at university in September.Clearing matches students who have not received any offers, or been turned down by their original choices due to lower than expected grades, to other available courses.
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Student Summer Ball Makes Loss of £100,000

A student summer ball made an estimated loss of more than £100,000 after a lower than expected turnout failed to offset expensive headline acts, reported Felix Newspaper.
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Coalition Government braced for summer of Strikes

Over 750,000 civil servants are set for strike action in support of the teacher's strike which will cause disruption to a million school children. The strike planned by teachers which now has the full support of civil servants is planned for Thursday June 30, with the dispute over public sector pensions.
NUT and ATL vote to strike

Teaching Unions Vote overwhelmingly for Strike Action

Members from both the National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers have voted overwhelmingly to take strike action in a row with the government over pensions. Union leaders said they were outraged by Government demands for a 3.4 per cent increase in pension contributions by 2014.
UNITED KINGDOM

Government accused of keeping students in the dark over tuition fee rises

The Government and academic institutions have been accused of keeping parents and students in the dark over the 2012 tuition fee increases. From 2012, universities will have the power to charge a maximum of £9,000 for academic courses - a treble in fee increases. When the legislation was passed by parliament last year, students were told they would receive clear information over the rises but the coalition government has been found wanting. One in three teenagers admits knowing little or nothing...
Is Twiiter compromising too much on private details?

Twitter user tweets updated list of super-injunction names

After Twitter recently announced its willingness to hand over user information, the ongoing injunction and super-injunction debate has seen another dramatic turn, as yet another Twitter user has published information regarding 14 privacy injunctions.
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Interview: Are free schools the way forward?

IBTimes interviews Jeanne Allen, the President of The Center for Education Reform, about education in Great Britain and the United States and about the rise of charter schools in the US and of academies and now free schools in Britain.