Malthus was appointed Professor of Political Economy at the East India College, Haileybury in 1805. The talk was part of the celebrations of the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth. Malthus was born in 1766 and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was elected a Fellow in 1797. The following year he published An Essay on the Principle of Population. It prompted considerable public debate...
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Departing on 29th March, the team will play two high-profile games at the Atlanta Life University: one against the USA Eagles U18 'A', the other against the full U18 USA Eagles. As part of the selection process, Greg represented the Southern IS Barbarians against the Rosslyn Park Academy in London, before being asked to captain the full England Barbarians' XV against the Irish Exiles at Uppingham School...
Year 9 students have been conducting research into the global fashion industry, and how fibres and fabrics have a large impact on the world we live in. Logos and straplines have been designed to increase the awareness of the main issues and these have been printed onto t-shirts. The initiative also involved an exciting visit from training organisation 'Project Textiles'. They developed computer-generated...
Following a chance meeting in the 1960s whilst Clement was working at the BBC, the pair began working together, building their reputation primarily on four iconic TV series: The Likely Lads, Whatever happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Their list of credits is impressive and includes films such as The Rock (with Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage), The Commitments, Goal! and...
Last year's scholarship student, Rebeka from Slovenia (pictured), went on to achieve great success and gained A* grades in all her GCSE exams. Find out about her school experiences on the Bell Bedgebury website. The Frank Bell Scholarship is funded by the Bell Educational Trust in memory of their founder. Following his experiences as a prisoner of war, where he set up and ran a secret university for his...
These new ‘Almond Scholarships’ have been devised by the new headmaster, Mr Peter Hogan, who successfully introduced a similar scheme at his former school, Llandovery College, last year. These new, means-tested scholarships are worth up to £24,000 per child a year (from aged 12 upwards), and are on top of the School’s current scholarship and bursary programme which provides...
The stamp shows a group photograph with a stunning mountain backdrop, and is worth 10 ngultrum (the Bhutanese national currency). In December 2005, 17 pupils and three members of staff from Dauntsey’s School made the history books by becoming the first ever school group to visit the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. They spent two weeks in the Land of the Thunder Dragon, exploring the country’s...
The fast-paced 'street' version of Romeo & Juliet was a massive production that wowed its audiences from start to finish. The Croft Hall at Burgess Hill School was transformed into 'Verona Housing Estate', complete with original graffiti artwork from professional artists, choreography by a London-based choreographer who has danced with Madonna, and the most up-to-date lighting and soundtrack. The...
During his lifetime he is documented as having saved over 52,000 Jewish people of Romanian citizenship from the clutches of the Nazis against opposition from his own government. On record it is stated that he was profoundly influenced by the humanistic education he received in England. On Tuesday 6th January 2009, Framlingham College held a Commemoration Service in their Chapel to remember and honour...
Everyone was taught the finer points of this particularly British acting genre, practising such famous lines as 'He’s behind you!', discovering that boys play the Dame and girls play the hero, and learning some of the typical jokes. Every boarder at the Derbyshire school was then put into a group to act out a well-known fairy story pantomime-style. Some hitherto-unknown talent was discovered when...
The first IB students will start their courses in September 2009, opening an exciting new era in Cobham Hall’s history. Cobham Hall has a well-established reputation for producing confident, articulate young women and students come to study here from all over the world, attracted by the very special ethos. The school has been a member of Round Square for over 40 years, and this ethos perfectly...
Mr Peter Hogan, Loretto’s new headmaster, is a pioneer and leading advocate of personal finance teaching in schools. Peter has been a Head of Business Education and Marketing, Head of Economics and a teacher of Economics. When nationalised industries were being privatised and everyone wanted a slice of British Gas and British Telecom, Peter Hogan was running a paper-based stock market game for his...
Partitions and lowered ceilings in the practice rooms have been stripped out to reveal the original rooms and ornate ceilings from the late 19th Century at the School’s Culford Hall. Two superb performance rooms and two classrooms with interactive whiteboards and modern teaching facilities have been created. Rooms are also being restored on the first floor to ensure they are better sound-proofed and...
includes new classrooms, secure play areas and footpaths, and a boarding house. It also takes advantage of the outstanding facilities and world-class tutors of the senior School, enhancing SJS pupils’ academic, music and arts opportunities. Further, it has provided on-site access to more extensive sports facilities, including numerous playing fields, an astro turf pitch, indoor pool and armoury. For...
The collection of pictures provided by A-level and GCSE students from Saint Felix School, Southwold are featured in a 2009 calendar which is now on sale. It provides a mix of scenes from kite flying in China and snow covered mountains in France to a forest scene in Dunwich woods. The arts committee at the James Paget University Hospital, at Gorleston, Norfolk, awarded a prize for best photograph to...
The Pulse is the first student publication of its kind, and aims to provide an accessible insight into the medical advances that are increasingly relevant to everybody's lives in the 21st century. The journal has been created by these aspiring medical students in order to fill a gap in local reading material aimed at young people interested in science. As medicine has become one of the most competitive...
The pupils were taken on a tour of the whole building, including the House of Lords and the House of Commons, during which they learnt about the history and traditions of the Palace of Westminster, as well as the various past prime ministers and monarchs of Great Britain. The sixth-formers were even fortunate enough to have highly prized tickets for Prime Minister’s Questions at the House of...
Christine Gilbert, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, recently wrote to the School offering her warmest congratulations on achieving a ‘very high standard of practice’. Representatives from Ratcliffe will be invited to attend a special event to mark the achievement, along with other outstanding providers in the Midlands region. Headmaster, Peter Farrar, said: ‘We are delighted to...