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TES (Times Educational article) Published: in the Times Education Supplement dated 20 January 2006

www.specialistschools.org.uk
Your first stop for information about the Trust. Find out how to become a specialist school, affiliate to the Trust, or become a sponsor.

www.schoolsnetwork.org.uk
The Academy Networks directorate has been set up within the SSAT to support the government’s academies programme. Academies are independent, all-ability, state schools supported by sponsors. They replace one or more existing schools facing challenging circumstances or are established where there is a need for additional school places.

www.dfes.gov.uk
The Department for Education and Skills was established with the purpose of creating opportunity, releasing potential and achieving excellence for all. Here you can read information specifically about the Department including our departmental reports and our strategy. You will also find information about our Ministerial team , a Who's Who chart and details about how to contact us.

www.nebpn.org
Education Business Partnerships were active in some parts of the country nearly twenty years ago, the real impetus for the movement came in the early 1990's and by 1995 almost every part of the country had an EBP servicing its local schools, college and business community.

www.rsc.org
Welcome to the RSC, the largest organisation in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences.

www.nagty.ac.uk
NAGTY membership is open to secondary-level students between the ages of 11 and 19, who are both resident and being educated in England, and who can demonstrate that they are working in, or have the potential to work in, the top 5% of the national ability range. The eligibility criteria have been amended for 2006-07 and include updated guidance on the identification of students on the basis of talent. Schools normally nominate students for membership using our identification form, which is part of the guidelines for schools/nominating bodies, by providing the most suitable evidence for each candidate, from the range of eligibility criteria shown. Independent applications are also possible.

www.schoolsnet.com
Schoolsnet: The No1 schools guide for parents, and by parents!

www.lincoln.ac.uk
The Department of Forensic and Biomedical Sciences is located on the Brayford Pool Campus in Lincoln. The Department offers single and joint honours undergraduate courses of study across a range of exciting and challenging science subjects. Teaching is supported by high quality scientific research and scholarship with modern, well equipped laboratories on the Brayford campus and a crime scene house at the Riseholme campus. Courses offered at undergraduate level include BSc Honours degrees in Forensic Science, Biomedical Science and the 1 year Certificate in Health Science. The Forensic Science degree course offers a varied but well balanced combination of subjects which includes crime scene investigation techniques, advanced chemical analysis techniques and specialist areas such as forensic entomology and forensic anthropology.

www.teachers.tv
Teachers TV Associates gives you the chance to get more involved with the channel, attend special events, gain access to exclusive content and sneak previews of new programme, and it's all free!

www.forensic.gov.uk
The Forensic Science Service is a trading name of Forensic Science Service Ltd., which is a UK Government owned company (GovCo). The market leader in the supply of Forensic Science Services to police forces in England and Wales, as well as being a source of training, consultancy, and scientific support for overseas and private sector customers. Employs a stringent quality management system, compliant to international quality standards ISO9001 and ISO17025. The FSS is accredited to carry out a range of scientific tests and processes under a multi-site Group Accreditation by UKAS and registered as compliant to relevant standards by BSI based upon independent external audit. FSS dealt with 130,000 cases, attended approximately 1,800 crime scenes, and appeared as expert witnesses in court on 2,500 occasions in 2004/05 and invests in scientific research through its Research & Service Development unit, which is recognised as being at the leading edge of research into forensic science techniques.

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www.tees.ac.uk
Teesside was the highest placed modern university in North East England and gained a top 20 score in The Times Higher Education Supplement for overall student satisfaction. The University received above national average ratings for overall student satisfaction among its students studying Art and Design, Computer Science, English-based Studies, History, Law, Mechanically-based Engineering, Media Studies, Psychology and Social Work.

www.ucas.co.uk
UCAS is the central organisation that processes applications for full-time undergraduate courses at UK universities and colleges. If you have received decisions from all of your choices and declined any offers you may have, you can use UCAS Extra to apply for other courses that still have vacancies.

www.forensic-science-society.org.uk
If you are a forensic professional of any kind or have a personal interest in forensic science you will find a wealth of information here. You can obtain information about jobs, careers, details of forthcoming meetings, download booking forms, read back issues of the Society newsletter (Interfaces), and if you are not already a member, you can find out how to become one.

www.aafs.org
A professional society dedicated to the application of Science & Law. The American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) has served a distinguished and diverse membership. Its nearly 6,000 members are divided into ten sections spanning the forensic enterprise. Included among the Academy's members are physicians, attorneys, dentists, toxicologists, physical anthropologists, document examiners, psychiatrists, physicists, engineers, criminalists, educators, and others - representing all 50 United States, Canada, and 55 other countries worldwide.

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