Prior to the meeting, field trips to the Katmandu Valley, Kaski District (Pokhara) and Kapilvastu District Bhairahawa will enable participants to observe first-hand school conditions and to meet the relevant education authorities, teachers, students, and members of school management committees.
Their teachers have told them that he has come to look at their north-west London secondary - which belongs to the government's flagship academy scheme - to see at first hand a school that symbolises the government's current thinking on raising education standards.
Parents, teachers, and general practitioners see at first hand how schools act as mixing fields for the transmission of the common infections of childhood.
I have witnessed such dishonesty and immorality at first hand in secondary school.
The UNICEF team saw the devastation first hand in a school at Zokok Laddeo.
When the Jerusalem Hand in Hand school was first created there was a major protest from the surrounding middle class neighborhoods -- from Arabs and Jews.
As one of his deputy heads, I saw at first hand that much of the school's successful development was due not only to Robert's vision but to his commitment to effective teamwork and administration.
"I am afraid," said Newby, in the genuinely heartfelt tones of a man apologising for being a class traitor in Stalin's Russia, "that I have deplorably little first hand knowledge of the Viennese school of linguistic philosophy".
I teach English in a London secondary school and see first hand, daily, the adverse effect an unsettled home life can have on a child's education.
Magic Bus by Rory MacLean 288pp, Viking, £16.99 Rudy, a 60-something Englishman with a pierced ear and a bandana, bought his first vehicle in 1966 - a second-hand Barnstaple school bus with no suspension and dodgy brakes.
Having attended a parochial elementary school myself, I've seen these successes first hand.
