At the other end of the table nationally was another County Durham school - Ferryhill Comprehensive.

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Fowler set up Durham University's Cricket School of Excellence in 1996 in an effort to boost the quality of English cricket.

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Retired history teacher David Gould took nearly 2, 000 ninth-graders over the years on retreats to Turtle Island from Durham Academy, a prep school.

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Ferryhill Business and Enterprise College, near Durham, is the first school in the north-east of England to introduce the system to combat truancy.

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An outdoor activity centre for school children in County Durham could be closed because of council cuts.

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Vickery, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine, in Durham.

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Oxford and Cambridge take the top two places, with four other UK universities also in the global top ten: the London School of Economics (LSE), Durham, University College London (UCL) and Manchester.

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The new guidance, announced at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, makes clear the legal obligations under Title IX of any school, college or university receiving federal funds to respond promptly and effectively to sexual violence.

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In County Durham one campaigning family are paying for a private nurse to inspect children at their local school.

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