This achievement gap has not been closed by the time youngsters are ready to leave secondary schools - with August-born teenagers 20% more likely to be in vocational rather than academic study after school.
Asked about the plan, UK Education Secretary Michael Gove - who was born and brought up in Scotland - said the Scottish Conservatives should be allowed to "choose their own destiny".
For now this self-described "boring couple" say they look forward to the day their children would be born and raised in a post-DOMA world.
Ana Tiwary, a filmmaker in her early 30s who lives in Sydney, moved to the city from the United States to be with her Australian-born husband in 2007.
Much the same can be said of Asian women born in South-East Asia, a category that includes refugees from Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia.
No longer would you need to be a first-born male in a wealthy family, in many cases descended from nobility, it order to inherit property and financial security.
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Two years later, 2013 is shaping up to be that fateful time in the Canadian-born star's career.
Recent history suggests it will be an Amazon-like upstart born in a garage.
Jambo was the first male silverback gorilla to be born in captivity, the first to be mother-reared and was one of the most prolific breeding silverbacks.
If enacted, the Grassley bill will encourage companies to place more engineers and other skilled foreign nationals abroad, where more investment dollars will flow, which will not be good for U.S.-born professionals in the technology field.
But cultural norms dictate that in Malawi the first-born should be delivered at home.
Meanwhile the Bristol-born back-row could be out for several weeks after aggravating a shoulder injury picked up earlier in the season in Sunday's 22-5 win at fellow struggler Leeds Carnegie.
The perpetrator, Major Malik Nidal Hasan, appears to be a devout American-born Muslim, who grew up in Virginia.
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"Surrogate births may still be relatively uncommon - there are probably around 100 born in this way each year, but the number is growing, " he said.
Mr. Shvo, who was born in Israel, worked his way up to be a top-selling broker at what is now Douglas Elliman before founding his own brokerage, SHVO, in 2004.
It is true that in most countries a foreign-born leader would be hard to imagine.
Goetze, born in Bavaria, could face his soon-to-be teammates in the Champions League final at Wembley in May since Dortmund and Bayern are both in the semifinals.
But it will be harder for the foreign-born descendants of Canadians to become citizens: in future, only the first generation would be able to do so automatically.
Perhaps the most obvious man the US will be looking to blame is the Saudi-born millionaire Osama Bin Laden, now in hiding in Afghanistan.
Many people here believe in the cycle of birth and rebirth - that a human can be born again as an animal, or an animal as a human.
As for economic leadership, this is now a collaborative effort and should be celebrated as a victory for liberal economics (born in Britain) rather than some short-sighted national tragedy.
If children are born into and raised in a conflict zone, they are more likely to be de-sensitized to violence.
Born in 1942 in Palestine, Mr Vardi started his career in fields that would be called low-tech today.
Keith, who played snobbish aristocrat Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in the sitcom To The Manor Born, will be joined by Flog It!
Born in Ilford in north-east London, Ball left school at 14 to be a clerk in an advertising agency and started taking trumpet lessons.
In practice, this means some start soon after their fourth birthday and could be in a class with children almost a year older than them - the September-born children.
"Our family was born to be working in the business, our father gave us no choice, " chuckles Sy-Coson (known as Tessie to her friends), who first worked part-time as a cashier in an sm store while a college student.
The researchers said uncertainty remained about suggestions repeated ultrasound exposure was linked to an increase in the number of left-handed babies born, but said the connection could be "nothing more than chance".
It may be a tactic born out of necessity rather than belief but the truth is that the Greek people - in significant numbers - have turned against austerity in exchange for EU loans.
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