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It was an interesting spot in Moscow, and surely some of my subscribers remember the building of School No. 36, which operated until 2002 inside the Conception Convent on Ostozhenka. The school building went up in 1936 on the site of a demolished church, the only pseudo-Gothic cathedral of
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Deputy Nilov has stated that Russia may gradually move away from the Unified State Exam (EGE). According to him, the new format for assessing schoolchildren's knowledge will be based on the best aspects of the EGE, as well as of the Soviet and Russian education systems. Nilov stressed
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I wholeheartedly support the importance of grading behaviour at school. Let us remember that the task of the school is not only instruction but also upbringing. Grades for conduct were proposed last summer; the proposal was voiced at the Presidential Council for Human Rights. I would remind you that a
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Under the reform, higher education in Russia will consist of three levels: Basic higher education: study lasts from 5 to 6 years and replaces the bachelor's degree. Specialised higher education: the master's degree, residency or assistantship-internship, lasting from 1 to 3 years. Postgraduate study (aspirantura)
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Tolkien sketched Helm's Deep on a used examination paper. He wrote the epic The Lord of the Rings while already a professor of Anglo-Saxon language and literature at the University of Oxford
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We discussed the reception of "Anna Karenina" in France in class. Here, if you please, are some average reviews of the book: "Despite what the title leads us to suppose, this book is not only the story of Anna, a married woman who falls under the spell
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In the opinion of Gramota.ru, the word of the year is "vaib" ("vibe"), while in the individual categories the winners were "prompt" (IT), "podcast" (culture), "microRNA" (medicine) and "marketplace" (economics)
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Queen Camilla of England has become a Doctor of Letters of the University of London. The doctoral robe was placed on her shoulders by the Princess Royal, Anne. True, Camilla is patron of several organisations that maintain and promote literacy, visits schools, libraries and businesses to popularise these programmes, is
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"For most people the appearance of books matters more than the beauties of science. Some go so far as to extol and praise the bookbinders more than the authors. They boast that, thanks to their efforts, this craft has attained in the Academy the greatest perfection, while on the
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French schoolchildren waiting for their weekly dose of cod liver oil, 1948. Photo by Robert Doisneau. I honestly don't know whether I have a genuine memory of being given cod liver oil at nursery school too, or whether it is a memory slot imported from my parents'