Reversing last year's fall in the English pass rate, there was a rise of nearly four percentage points in those obtaining a C or above in English language this year, coupled with a slight improvement in those awarded A grades.
-- Rodger Bingham, "Survivor" "They shall, if possible enjoy conditions of food and hygiene which will be sufficient to keep them in good health, and which will be at least equal to those obtaining in prisons in the occupied country".
The reason: all those obtaining their driving licences after that date are prohibited for a year from driving at night unless accompanied by someone over the age of 25.
The gap in performance between poorer pupils and their better off peers – in terms of those obtaining five A* to C grades including maths and English – is 26.1 percentage points at the country's biggest 300 schools.
But a good deal of Part I of the book is about the government's method of investing in research universities before and after World War II and the sometimes tense relationship that exists between the values of research universities and those obtaining in American industry.
Coleridge now conceived the design of circumventing the disastrous violence that had destroyed the idealism of the French Revolution by establishing a small society that should organize itself and educate its children according to better principles than those obtaining in the society around them.
