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Tuesday September 2 2008

Editors' picks
My message: 'Anybody can learn'

Let's adopt the teaching methods of legendary language guru Michel Thomas, a new book pleads. Anthea Lipsett finds out why

Crib sheet

Toddling to the front of the line | NUS highlights inequality of university fees | What we learned this week

Why the delay in launching database?

Government blames glitches, but critics say whole system could put children in danger. Janet Murray reports

Closure plans reveal low-grade thinking

For this proportion of high grades to be reached in every school, there would have to be a much fairer distribution of pupils of high and low abilities between schools, says Peter Mortimore
Letters

Stay at home | All you need is love | A question of care
The £100 paper bag

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Multiple choice

Does your school have an after-school club?
The least we can expect is for our voices to be heard

Janette Owen on what the new term brings for governors
Learning to let go

Spare a thought for those suffering on the first day of term - parents and newly qualified teachers

The write stuff

Children's writing won't improve without special training for teachers, hears Debbie Andalo

Ready for the crunch?

The last recession brought adult learners flocking to college desks. This time nothing seems so simple
Efficient erosion of expertise

A market-oriented approach to further education is seeing the status of lecturers being degraded

Unwrapping training

Reforming skills supply won't create demand, says Michael Davis
College voices

Annie Ostapenko-Denton's job helped her to survive
Worth their weight in gold

Our Olympic medallists are the best advert yet for the new advanced sporting apprenticeships

From soft skills to hard job offers

It's not enough to be clever, students are now told. You must be employable. Well, Max certainly is
Congestion and its comeuppance

Medicine does not lack for studies about how to attack nasal congestion, writes Marc Abrahams

The road to university

Our step-by-step guide to the application process
The art of packing for university

Before you pack for university you have to think about image
Zero tolerance on the law of averages

Statistics can play mean tricks, says Jonathan Wolff

Can money get you into Oxbridge?

Admissions procedures are becoming fairer all the time, but there is room for improvement. By Elfi Pallis

The insiders

Marilyn Roberts, school-home support worker in south-east London
When schools are in the front line

School nurses can be key when pupils have mental-health issues. A new project trains them to help students

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