In Northern Ireland, the assembly government recommends two hours of PE for secondary school pupils.
The laptops were bought for secondary school pupils taking part in the Welsh government's iLearnWales programme.
There are only a few months to go before parents must apply for secondary school places starting in September 2011.
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Addressing leading head teachers and literacy experts, he questioned whether the present target for 11-year-olds was challenging enough to help prepare them for secondary school.
In a statement, the Department for Education said there was a "severe need" for secondary school places in Slough and the Arbour Vale site was "just one option" it was considering.
And the figures still show 50-odd per cent of pupils at the age of 11 are not by your own light properly equipped for secondary school in reading, writing and particularly in arithmetic.
The decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove will mean that computing will count as a science in the English Baccalaureate for secondary school league tables from January 2014 - alongside physics, chemistry, biology and pupils taking double science.
Slough Sikh Education Trust has secured a site for Khalsa Secondary School in Stoke Poges.
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The council says 67% of parents and residents who responded to a consultation on plans for the secondary school were in favour of them.
Wilshere continued to play for his secondary school - The Priory in Hitchin - until joining Arsenal permanently as a 15-year-old in 2007 and completing his studies alongside the likes of Henri Lansbury, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, Sanchez Watt and Emmanuel Frimpong.
Mr Gove met parents and residents who had campaigned for a new secondary school on their estate.
There has been a long-running campaign for a Catholic secondary school in the area, with local Catholics saying their children had to travel out of the borough to attend school.
The UNESCO Global Microscience Experiments Project aims to provide a practical approach to experiencing science for elementary and secondary school students (and in some countries, students in their first academic year), using kits designed especially with a textbook illustrating the various experiments.
In addition, Hillview pupils interviewed some of the 60 head teachers who were visiting the school for a conference on the new secondary school curriculum.
Francis Gilbert, a secondary school teacher for 20 years, agreed permission and insurance paperwork could often put teachers off organising school trips.
The education ministry estimates that it needs to provide enough university places for 40% of secondary school students rather than today's 11.5%.
He came to Jersey in 1979 and worked at Les Chenes School, and was also head teacher at Grainville Secondary School for eight years.
The tests are the same for both primary and secondary school teacher trainees, who must also have achieved a grade C or above in GCSE maths and English.
Councillor Matt Deegan, executive member for community regeneration for Wokingham Borough Council, said the sale would help fund a new state-of-the-art secondary school planned for the Arborfield Garrison site five miles away.
Secondary School for Arts and Technology in Queens.
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The disc, which goes by the title Antarctic Waves, works on both PCs and Macs and will be made available for free to every secondary school in the UK that teaches GSCE or A-level music.
Across the region as a whole, girls make up less than 50% of students at school and university, though they account for more than 50% of the top-scoring secondary-school-leavers in all countries for which data is available.
However, challenges remain at the upper secondary level, where there are enough school places for just 47% of girls and 49% of boys of upper secondary school age to enrol, according to the Digest.
Since 1967, Nebraska has subjected admissions costs (except for those to elementary and secondary school events) to its sales tax.
Their remit includes the question of how well the final years of secondary school provide for those who are not going to university, and how employers could better support the transition into work.
At the start of this academic year, it was introduced for children in their first year of secondary school, and will be rolled out year-on-year until it is implemented for all secondary years.
It is compulsory for all from the start of secondary school to the second year of university.
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The IoE report recommends more emphasis on ensuring that "high achieving school-children in England manage to keep pace with the highest achieving pupils in secondary school via, for instance gifted and talented schemes".
Battersea, a London borough on the south bank of the Thames, for example, lacks sufficient state secondary school places to meet demand, and children must either leave the area or their parents pay to send them to private schools.
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