They want a prime piece of undeveloped real estate to effect a sizeable expansion of the kingdom's school here known as the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) so as to enable it to enroll 1, 200 students.

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Oliver took on Huntington after successfully reforming the school meal system in the United Kingdom.

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At the same conference, in which representatives of the education systems in the United States and the United Kingdom were meeting in Washington, the UK's School Standards Minister, Estelle Morris, said that there were 530 schools which were not improving their GCSE results quickly enough.

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While distance seems an obstacle in the selection process, for many students on the east coast, the flight time to the United Kingdom is around the same as if they had chosen a school on the west coast.

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In the United Kingdom, there has been a decline in pupils walking, cycling or getting buses to school - with a corresponding rise in parents driving children to the school gates.

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And then we have some very special guests from the United Kingdom, our young ladies -- 12 of them -- from the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School.

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