http://www.ey3news.com/content/topic_000022_page.shtml Updated with the latest news for Education en-gb Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:01:34 EST Copyright: (C) Ey3News.com, see http://www.ey3news.com/terms_and_conditions.shtml for terms and conditions of reuse http://www.ey3news.com/ http://www.ey3news.com/images/icons/ey3news_logo_rss.gif http://www.ey3news.com STANDARD Grades are irrelevant and should be scrapped, education experts said yesterday, after it emerged fewer pupils than ever are taking the exams. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219609 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219609 2007-08-10 18:01:40 PEOPLE in Edinburgh have been hit by double the average amount of rainfall in the last couple of months. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219610 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219610 2007-08-10 18:01:40 A SERIES of open days are being held at the Telford College campus. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219611 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219611 2007-08-10 18:01:40 EDINBURGH University's record-setting fundraising campaign has passed the £200 million milestone. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219612 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219612 2007-08-10 18:01:40 COLLEGES are currently providing little more than social care for people with disabilities, according to an equal rights watchdog. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219613 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219613 2007-08-10 18:01:40 A MISTAKE in a letter sent to pupils by Scotland's exam body contributed to thousands of teenagers receiving their results late, it has emerged. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219614 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219614 2007-08-10 18:01:40 A MASSIVE £40 million project with the aim of helping scientists to better understand the human brain was announced today. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219615 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219615 2007-08-10 18:01:40 A CHARITY has been awarded more than £130,000 to provide a range of services for youngsters. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219616 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219616 2007-08-10 18:01:40 A LIFEGUARD trainer at a university sports centre has vowed to continue offering courses in lifesaving during expansion work at the campus. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219617 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219617 2007-08-10 18:01:40 THE principal of Napier University said today that she was "delighted" to appoint NHS Lothian's nursing director as a visiting professor. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219618 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219618 2007-08-10 18:01:40 EDUCATIONAL DVDs and videos which claim to enhance the cognitive development of infants may hinder rather than help their language skills, according to a study published today. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219619 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219619 2007-08-10 18:01:40 PUPILS are taking fewer Advanced Highers for the first time in four years, it was revealed yesterday as thousands of pupils across Scotland received their exam results. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219620 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219620 2007-08-10 18:01:40 A MATHS prodigy was celebrating this morning after gaining an A in his Highers at just 14. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219621 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219621 2007-08-10 18:01:40 SCOTLAND'S online exam results service is to be reviewed after thousands of teenagers failed to log on because they forgot their passwords. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219622 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219622 2007-08-10 18:01:40 STAFF at Edinburgh University are to receive awards from Prince Philip during a special dinner at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219623 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219623 2007-08-10 18:01:40 The nation’s high school seniors performed significantly better on the first nationwide economics test than they did on other recent national exams in history and science. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218410 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218410 2007-08-10 18:01:03 The space shuttle Endeavour lifted off, carrying pieces of the International Space Station and a living reminder of the loss of the shuttle Challenger two decades ago. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218411 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218411 2007-08-10 18:01:03 Should cash be used to spur children to do better on reading and math tests? http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218412 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218412 2007-08-10 18:01:03 The nation’s high school seniors received better scores than were expected on the first nationwide economics test. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218413 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218413 2007-08-10 18:01:03 Advocates said that the practice of serving breakfast in cafeterias failed to attract most of the children who need it. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218414 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218414 2007-08-10 18:01:03 Eastern Michigan University said it would establish a warning system in its response to a report that found it had covered up the rape and killing of a student. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218415 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218415 2007-08-10 18:01:03 As the nation’s Muslim population grows, issues of religious accommodation are becoming more common, and more complicated. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218416 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218416 2007-08-10 18:01:03 Barbara R. Morgan, a former teacher, is about to fulfill a two-decade-old dream by becoming the first “educator astronaut.” http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218417 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218417 2007-08-10 18:01:03 A full scholarship has been offered to Jeremy Hernandez, a struggling former student who kicked open the back door of a tipping school bus with 50 children. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218418 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218418 2007-08-10 18:01:03 A Jewish émigré from Nazi-occupied Vienna, Raul Hilberg helped begin the field of Holocaust studies with his long, detailed 1961 study of the massacre of European Jews. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218419 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218419 2007-08-10 18:01:03 A 16-year-old was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in the shooting death of his high school principal. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218420 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218420 2007-08-10 18:01:03 In this stunning memoir, Ms. Lagnado gives us a deeply affecting portrait of her family and its journey from wartime Cairo to the New World. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218371 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218371 2007-08-10 18:01:01 Lesley Chamberlain brings some forgotten intellectuals back to life and argues that their banishment was a turning point in the road from revolution to Communist tyranny. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218372 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218372 2007-08-10 18:01:01 A new book on Italy’s political class has become a phenomenon, catching the wave of a widespread national malaise. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218373 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218373 2007-08-10 18:01:01 A certain canon of college-assigned summer reading is emerging: books that are readable, short, engaging, cheap. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218374 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218374 2007-08-10 18:01:01 BookVideos.tv is clearly intended not so much for readers but rather for "booklovers." But what I can't take my eyes off is someone named Santa Montefiore. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218375 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218375 2007-08-10 18:01:01 News: Poet and novelist Taslima Nasrin has been attacked at the launch of her book, Getting Even, in southern India. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218173 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218173 2007-08-10 18:00:51 Aug 9: A Polish writer is on trial for murder after writing a crime novel in which he closely detailed the facts of a real-life killing. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218174 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218174 2007-08-10 18:00:51 Aug 8: A French Harry Potter fan was arrested and held by police after allegedly posting a pirate translation of the young wizard's latest adventures on the internet. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218175 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218175 2007-08-10 18:00:51 Aug 8: A novelist and short story writer, she drew on her remembered Australian childhood. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218176 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218176 2007-08-10 18:00:51 Aug 7: Harry Potter author JK Rowling failed today in a legal bid to ban publication of a photograph taken in the street of one of her children. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218177 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218177 2007-08-10 18:00:51 Aug 6: Hugely influential female Arab poet. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218178 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218178 2007-08-10 18:00:51 Children are urged to go on a physics-based adventure at Butlins seaside holiday camps. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216807 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216807 2007-08-10 18:00:07 Primary school test results in England have shown a slight improvement in English, maths and science. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216808 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216808 2007-08-10 18:00:07 A Bristol secondary school rebuilt under a £120m private finance initiative is to halve the number of pupils it admits. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216809 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216809 2007-08-10 18:00:07 A missing letter in a web address causes problems for frustrated pupils seeking Scottish exam results. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216810 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216810 2007-08-10 18:00:07 Autistic children should have equal access to schools with academy status, says an autism campaigner. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216811 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216811 2007-08-10 18:00:07 The percentage of students passing Higher exams increases compared with last year. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216812 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216812 2007-08-10 18:00:07 THOUSANDS of youngsters logged on to receive their Scottish exam results a day earlier than normal today. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216144 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216144 2007-08-10 06:01:26 PUPILS from a city secondary school who took part in a drug and alcohol awareness project have received an award recognising their achievements. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216145 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216145 2007-08-10 06:01:26 THREE teenagers are to take part in a leadership course after winning funding from local Rotary Club members. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216146 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216146 2007-08-10 06:01:26 A FORMER MP has been appointed an honorary doctor of law at a city university. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216147 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216147 2007-08-10 06:01:26 TEENAGERS will be offered cut-price car insurance and the chance to take their driving theory test at school under plans being considered by the Scottish Executive. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216148 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216148 2007-08-10 06:01:26 A SENIOR college lecturer has hailed a scheme to help West Lothian youngsters find employment. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216149 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216149 2007-08-10 06:01:26 CHILDREN enjoying their school holidays took to Inverleith Park to take part in an It's A Knockout contest. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216150 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216150 2007-08-10 06:01:26 EDINBURGH University has recognised the research and teaching of three men by awarding them honorary readerships. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216151 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216151 2007-08-10 06:01:26 Parents are being urged to take a fresh look at vocational qualifications for their children. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215432 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215432 2007-08-10 06:00:06 A WAY of making tiny objects levitate by reversing a mysterious force of nature has been proposed by two physicists at a Scottish university. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214813 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214813 2007-08-06 18:01:32 SCOTTISH universities might give extra weighting to state school pupils when dealing with oversubscribed courses, education officials have admitted. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214814 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214814 2007-08-06 18:01:32 THOUSANDS of teenagers across Scotland have been switching on computers and mobile phones today to find out if they passed their exams. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214815 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214815 2007-08-06 18:01:32 RECORD numbers of young Scots are to receive their exam results from the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) this week. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214816 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214816 2007-08-06 18:01:32 A LOTHIANS school has won the prestigious green flag award to recognise its contribution to the local environment. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214817 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214817 2007-08-06 18:01:32 A 94-YEAR-OLD great-great-grandmother appears to be the world's oldest recipient of a master's degree, an official with Guinness World Records said yesterday. Phyllis Turner earned a medical science degree at Adelaide University. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214818 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214818 2007-08-06 18:01:32 As if university graduates didn't have enough to worry about... the trend for psychometric tests is bad news for Max Davidson. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214457 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214457 2007-08-06 18:01:14 Liz Lightfoot answers your queries. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214458 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214458 2007-08-06 18:01:14 Wendy Miller introduces our new columist, Pete Wedderburn. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214459 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214459 2007-08-06 18:01:14 In a new book, Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland of Project Zero — an arts-education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education — argue forcefully for the benefits of art education, while still defending their 2000 thesis. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213890 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213890 2007-08-06 18:00:57 Two Rider University officials and three fraternity members were charged in connection with the death of a freshman last March during a hazing ritual. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213891 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213891 2007-08-06 18:00:57 Tessa Hadley is eerily precise in her sketches of everyday people in upper-middle-class British settings. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213870 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213870 2007-08-06 18:00:55 In Dalia Sofer’s first novel, a father is separated from his Jewish family in Iran shortly after the revolution. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213871 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213871 2007-08-06 18:00:55 New books by Stanley Weintraub and Mark Perry cast light on the relationship of a commander in chief and his generals. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213872 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213872 2007-08-06 18:00:55 A Dickensian novel about a man’s search for his missing brother and the horrors of war. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213873 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213873 2007-08-06 18:00:55 A British family’s trove of documents provides an intimate view of the 17th century. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213874 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213874 2007-08-06 18:00:55 A Nobelist’s essays on 20 great writers of the 20th century. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213875 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213875 2007-08-06 18:00:55 The essays in the anthology “Why I Turned Right” offer a tantalizing clue as to how conservative pundit-intellectuals manage to connect so unfailingly with a mass audience. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213876 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213876 2007-08-06 18:00:55 This week, Chapter 13: Mike was dreaming about trouble at sea. For some reason, he had dismissed his crew and set sail alone on a long voyage, only to find himself in the middle of a storm. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213877 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213877 2007-08-06 18:00:55 Nicholas Kulish, the Berlin bureau chief for The New York Times, was embedded with the marines in 2003 while working for The Wall Street Journal, and he has brought home a story worthy of his literary idols. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213878 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213878 2007-08-06 18:00:55 A picture on July 22 with a review of “Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900,” by Jack Beatty, was published in error. It showed George Jay Gould, not his father, the financier Jay Gould. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213879 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213879 2007-08-06 18:00:55 A review on July 22 about “Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA,” by Tim Weiner, referred incorrectly to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, Gates was George H. W. Bush’s deputy national security adviser, not his “top intelligence adviser”; he did not became the director of central intelligence until November 1991. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213880 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213880 2007-08-06 18:00:55 Fifty years ago Jack Kerouac's dazzling novel On the Road became the blueprint for the Beat generation and shaped America's youth culture for decades. It influenced scores of artists, musicians and film-makers, but how does it resonate with young people today? http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213695 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213695 2007-08-06 18:00:45 Japan in 1946, bombed and brutalised, is the bleak setting for David Peace's Tokyo Year Zero, says Tim Adams. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213696 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213696 2007-08-06 18:00:45 Michael Tolkin's The Return of the Player goes back to the Hollywood game, says Killian Fox. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213697 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213697 2007-08-06 18:00:45 From chemistry sets to homemade face scrubs - following the success of The Dangerous Book for Boys comes The Great Big Glorious Book for Girls, with anthologies from children's classics Look and Learn and Ladybird on the way. What does the popularity of nostalgia lit tell us about ourselves today, asks Jenny Turner. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213698 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213698 2007-08-06 18:00:45 Virginia Woolf called Middlemarch 'one of the few English books written for grown-up people'. Anti-romantic, yet intensely passionate, it is one of the greatest novels of all, agrees AS Byatt. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213699 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213699 2007-08-06 18:00:45 In the 1960s, Amiri Baraka converted from Greenwich Village Beat poet to Harlem agitator, influencing a generation of young black writers. His work is still causing controversy. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213700 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213700 2007-08-06 18:00:45 Elizabeth Lowry on Elif Shafak's The Bastard of Istanbul and Maureen Freely's Enlightenment, two novels that bravely address the identity crisis of modern Turkey. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213701 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213701 2007-08-06 18:00:45 Terry Eagleton finds that politics is glossed over in AN Wilson's fictional take on Hitler and the Wagners, Winnie and Wolf. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213702 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213702 2007-08-06 18:00:45 Michael White's Galileo Antichrist depicts the struggle between science and faith, says Simon Callow. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213703 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213703 2007-08-06 18:00:45 Carolyn Steedman's Master and Servant puts servants back at the centre of working-class history, says Kathryn Hughes. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213704 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213704 2007-08-06 18:00:45 New A-levels designed to stretch pupils and recognise the highest levels of achievement are approved. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212851 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212851 2007-08-06 18:00:06 Thousands of children fear being bullied or becoming a victim of crime during the holidays, a charity warns. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212852 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212852 2007-08-06 18:00:06 CHILDREN of asylum seekers who have been in Scotland for more than three years are set to have their university tuition fees waived. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212237 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212237 2007-08-06 06:01:23 A NEW head of engineering and physical sciences has been appointed at one of the city's universities. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212238 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212238 2007-08-06 06:01:23 AN exhibition of youngsters' artwork dealing with issues such as fear and freedom is to go on display. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212239 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212239 2007-08-06 06:01:23 NURSERY children were learning to play music on recycled instruments today after a visit from a junk percussion duo. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212240 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212240 2007-08-06 06:01:23 NHS Lothian's director of nursing has been given the title of visiting professor at Napier University. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212241 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212241 2007-08-06 06:01:23