It is now run as an academy by the education charity E-Act and caters for some 120 children aged between four and 11 and hopes to expand to 420 by 2017.
To accelerate capacity building and skills development, Microsoft has established the Afrika Academy, an education platform leveraging online and offline learning tools, to help Africans develop both technical and business skills for entrepreneurship and improved employability.
They will have academy status with an education provider to be selected by Devon County Council and the secretary of state for education.
Kim Lesley Popratnjak, principal of the North Birmingham Academy, for services to education.
He cited companies like Udacity and Coursera and Khan Academy that are working on education but sees Glass as adding a whole new layer to education.
It mirrors our own objectives for education at Khan Academy.
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At the free online-education provider Khan Academy, for instance, students get a "Great Listener" badge for watching 30 minutes of videos from its collection of thousands of short lectures.
He and father Alan, mum Lindsay and sister Danielle had switched to the Laurencekirk area from Muthill, after which he attended Fettercairn Primary School and Mearns Academy before completing his secondary education at Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen.
Khan Academy has the potential to disrupt education as we know it today.
What Salman Khan and his Khan Academy did for elementary and secondary education, offering world-class instruction online for free, will soon be replicated throughout academia.
Over the holidays, I belatedly discovered what may point the way to the future of education the Khan Academy.
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The academy, backed by the Department for Education and Skills, is intended to reach 6, 200 pupils by September next year.
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With the support of the French Education Ministry and the French Academy of Science, the three academics launched their scheme.
The school became an academy in November and was formally opened by Education Secretary Michael Gove the following month.
Local councils' roles in education have been cut under the academy programme.
Attempts to cajole primary schools in Lancashire to accept academy status could adversely affect children's education, the leader of Lancashire County Council has said.
And we in Government can help put in place the new Academy in Liverpool or the ground-breaking Education Village in Darlington which I have visited recently.
Examples of longer hours and terms from the Department for Education include the David Young Community Academy in Leeds which operates a seven-term year starting in June.
Ms Palmer said campaigners against the closure were applying to the Department for Education to turn the school into an academy.
Kenneth Gordon McKenzie . principal teacher of Guidance, Northfield Academy (Aberdeen) - For services to Education and School's Sport in Aberdeen.
Only two grant-maintained schools were established in Scotland and one, Dornoch Academy in Sutherland, has since returned to the education authority framework.
Colin Andrew David Baillie , assistant rector, Millburn Academy (Inverness) - For services to education and to Schools' Rugby in the North of Scotland.
But heads say that academy "brokers" employed by the Department for Education (DfE) are using unsavoury methods to push primary schools into opting out of their links with local authorities.
Amara, a nonprofit crowd source subtitling platform that engages volunteers from around the world to translate online videos, has been adopted by two leading online education providers, Coursera and Khan Academy, to make academic videos globally accessible.
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The Khan Academy is leading the way in the evolution of the Education Genome.
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Several Tennessee-based members of the National Academy of Sciences worry that the bill would weaken science education in the state.
Representatives from government institutions, NGOs and development partners including the Royal Academy of Cambodia, National Language Institute, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, UNESCO, UNICEF, CARE Cambodia, and International Cooperation for Cambodia (ICC), shared their research findings, field experiences, and lessons learned.
Alexander John Lindsay supervisory technician, Mackie Academy (Inverurie, Aberdeenshire) - For services to education.
Ahmad Naser Sarmast, the academy's director, said he is confident that music education will survive.
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