The Times Higher Education World University Rankings employ 13 separate performance indicators, which it says makes it the only world rankings to examine all the core missions of the modern global university - research, teaching, knowledge transfer and international activity.

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As Ms Churchman explains, modern maths teaching focuses on the key concepts, and a renewed emphasis on mental methods and strategies as opposed to recall.

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Pope Benedict argues that the Council represents continuity, not a radical revision of Church teaching for modern times.

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Thus, while Christian teaching draws deeply on the mysticism in the religion of Israel, the modern expression of Judaism has been influenced by patterns of thought which come from the secular or post-Christian West.

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As if the only way a modern young woman would buy into this market would be if she had no woman teaching her better?

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But the government's ambitions to extend language teaching to younger pupils will depend on tackling a shortage of modern languages teachers.

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