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Social issues Overview (September 2011)

Social issues Overview (September 2011)

23/09/11
Each month the Department of Social Issues Strategic Analysis Centre offers a selection of information, innovation and experimentation from elsewhere.

It does not pretend to cover the news so exhaustice international social or contibuer to implement them in the context hexagonal. It consists of subjective choices deliberately made by official representatives of the department as part of their research and their meetings. These raise the membership like this, caution or rejection, their vocation is to help lead the debate on the future of social models.

  • The curiosity of September: UK

Education

The College Crown Woods, the UK, reopened in May 2011. The novelty is that there is no one, but three institutions. Students are divided according to their results at the end of primary school. Those who are most successful are sent to Delamere and wear a purple badge on their blazers, others go to Ashwood (blue shield) and Sherwood (red flash). Each school has about 450 students. There are no lessons in common and are not shared infrastructure. For the director of Crown Woods, this system helps attract talented children, their parents would not have sent a public college
without the assurance of a custom operating and protector. However, this system allows little mobility of students from one institution to another, even if changes in school performance have occurred. In addition, some detractors fear that the experience students do internalize too quickly the message: "if you are Delamere, students of Ashwood and Sherwood you are inferior."

Source : The Guardian, 25/07/11

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