Fleming and co-writer Tiffany Paulsen has set the story firmly in 2007, but their Nancy Drew is an anachronism who dresses in tweedy skirts, preppy knits and penny-loafers, and whose prim sense of right and wrong (she drinks milk and knows CPR) quickly marks her as a social outcast when she moves from provincial Riverside Heights to a new school, Hollywood High.

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Based on the report of the Provincial Education Service (PES), parents in the school communities suggested that many of the upgraded teachers trained in the NTU program perform better than some of their counterpart pre-service teachers trained from the teacher training colleges.

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This week parliament also began work on a bill to overhaul the school system, decentralising much of the responsibility to the provincial and district level.

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The number of weeklies and monthlies published partly or fully in Kurdish has risen from two to five, and the provincial government, which used to frown on out-of-school Kurdish classes, paid for 2, 500 Kurds to learn to write in their native language last summer.

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His high school then expelled him for publishing a press article in favour of Picasso and he fled provincial Medellin for good.

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Mrs Tseladimitloa shows forms that the provincial education department has sent to all schools in Gauteng requesting information about the number of orphans in each school - this makes her hopeful that the government is taking notice of the huge number of orphans who are in need.

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