The Department of Education has said the grammar schools cannot draw on their normal budget to pay for the tests, but has confirmed that the schools are entitled to use the money raised from parental contributions.

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What's the benefit of education if something much more important is missing - the possibility to have normal, peaceful life.

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He added that education at the school could now "get back to normal".

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As the price of e-readers approaches zero, it opens up more opportunities for people who have been left on the wrong side of the digital divide to access the same wealth of information, entertainment and education as people with normal vision and average-or-better income.

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Parents who teach at home are deeply involved in their children's education, and the children of such parents do well in normal schools, too.

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Scope said a combined approach by health, social services and education bosses would mean children getting the equipment they need to live a normal life.

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But Mr Hardwick said that although the "mechanics" of the prison service had coped so far, it had inevitably become harder to maintain normal prison regimes, with education programmes suffering.

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