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Bexhill College
Bexhill College is a sixth form college in the south-east of England. The college is based in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex and is located on Penland Road, north-east of the town centre. The college is rated ''Outstanding'' as of its latest Ofsted report, which took place in 2024. History Bexhill College is the direct successor of the County Schools for Boys and Girls, opened on 5 October 1926. In 1945 following the Education Act, the schools became Grammar Schools. The Boys' and Girls' County Grammar Schools merged on 26 September 1970 and became a sixth form college in 1977. The college was initially located on Turkey Road in Sidley, but relocated officially to Penland Road in late c2006. General information As of 2018, the college enrolls nearly 2000 students with the majority of the day students aged 16–19. The main college buildings are located all on one site, with a wide range of facilities catering for the 80 plus courses available. The college also runs an adult l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixth Form College
A sixth form college (pre-university college in Malaysia) is an educational institution, where students aged 16 to 19 study typically for advanced post-school level qualifications such as GCE Advanced Level, A Levels, Business and Technology Education Council level 3 (BTEC), and the International Baccalaureate Diploma, or school-level qualifications such as General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations and BTEC level 2 qualifications. In many countries this type of educational institute is known as a junior college. The municipal government of the city of Paris uses the phrase 'sixth form college' as the English name for a lycée (high school). In England and the Caribbean, education is currently compulsory until the Year 13, the school year in which the pupil turns 18.Previously in England, education was compulsory only until Year 11 before August 2013 and until Year 12 between August 2013 and 2015. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelsea FC
Chelsea Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham, West London, England. The club was founded in 1905 and named after neighbouring area Chelsea. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football, playing their home games at Stamford Bridge. Since 2022, the club has been owned by BlueCo. Chelsea won their first major domestic honour, the First Division championship, in 1955. Domestically, Chelsea have won six top-flight league titles, eight FA Cups, five League Cups, and four FA Community Shields, making them the fifth-most successful club in English football. At international level, Chelsea won their first trophy in 1971, when they won the European Cup Winners' Cup. After winning another Cup Winners' Cup in 1998, they went on to win their first UEFA Champions League in 2012, a feat they repeated in 2021. Chelsea have also won the UEFA Europa League twice, in 2013 and 2019. After winning the UEFA Conference League in 2025, Che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Baccalaureate Schools In England
International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The Three Degrees album), 1975 *''International'', 2018 album by L'Algérino Songs * The Internationale, the left-wing anthem * "International" (Chase & Status song), 2014 * "International", by Adventures in Stereo from ''Monomania'', 2000 * "International", by Brass Construction from ''Renegades'', 1984 * "International", by Thomas Leer from ''The Scale of Ten'', 1985 * "International", by Kevin Michael from ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * "International", by McGuinness Flint from ''McGuinness Flint'', 1970 * "International", by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark from '' Dazzle Ships'', 1983 * "International (Serious)", by Estelle from '' All of Me'', 2012 Politics * Internationalism (politics) * Political international, any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charity Wakefield
Charity Wakefield is an English actress. Her appearances include roles in ''Sense & Sensibility'' (2008), ''Casualty 1900s'' (2008–2009), ''Wolf Hall'' and ' (2015), '' Close to the Enemy'' (2016), ', ''Genius'' and ''Bounty Hunters'' (2017), and as Georgina Dymova in ' (2020–2023). Early life and education Charity Wakefield was born in Tunbridge Wells. Her first taste of acting was in an amateur dramatics school production of ''Sleeping Beauty'' in 1987. Wakefield attended a three-year acting course at Oxford School of Drama graduating in 2003. Besides acting, Wakefield plays the violin and has a strong soprano singing voice. Career Wakefield made her screen debut in 2004, in ''(Past Present Future) Imperfect''. She starred in a BBC1 production of ''Rapunzel'', in which Rapunzel is a young tennis star, and also appeared in ''Casualty 1907''. Her theatre credits include '' Yesterday Was a Weird Day'', a production about the 2005 London bombings, Constance in ''The Three Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Robinson
Francis Christopher Rowland Robinson CBE, DL, FRAS (born 23 November 1944 in Barnet) is a British historian and academic who specialises in the history of South Asia and Islam. Since 1990, he has been Professor of History of South Asia at the University of London. He has twice been president of the Royal Asiatic Society: from 1997 to 2000, and from 2003 to 2006. Early life and education Robinson was educated at Bexhill County Grammar School for Boys and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he completed his Master of Arts, MA and Doctor of Philosophy, PhD degrees, the latter in 1970. Academic career Robinson's research interests have focused on the Muslim world, with particular emphasis the Muslims of South Asia, Muslim responses to modernity, learned and holy families, and religious and political change. He has written several books on the Islamic World, including ''Atlas of the Islamic World Since 1500'' (1982), ''Islam and Muslim History in South Asia'' (2000), ''The Ulama of Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pitman (journalist)
John Pitman (18 November 1939 – 14 February 2018) was an English journalist, television producer and documentary filmmaker. He began his on-screen career as a researcher on ''Braden's Week'' but later became known for his reporting work on the BBC2 documentary series '' Man Alive''. Biography Pitman was born in Whitecroft, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, to Maudie (née Morse) and William Pitman. He attended Bexhill-on-Sea and then Cirencester Grammar Schools. He began his career in journalism with the ''Gloucestershire Echo'' and ''Brighton Argus'' newspapers before moving to the ''Daily Mail'' and then on to the BBC. His first on-screen role was as reporter on ''Braden's Week'' with Bernard Braden and Esther Rantzen. He was also known for reporting for the series '' The Big Time'', an edition of which launched the career of the singer Sheena Easton and he presented a follow-up programme ''Sheena Easton - the Making of a Star''. The programmes helped to make her int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayley Okines
Hayley Leanne Okines (3 December 1997 – 2 April 2015) was an English author and activist who was a sufferer of the extremely rare aging disease progeria. She was known for spreading awareness of the condition. Although the life expectancy for those with the condition is 13 years, Okines was part of a drug trial that had seen her surpass doctors' predictions of her projected lifespan. She died on 2 April 2015 at the age of 17, having lived four years beyond doctors' initial predictions. Okines was diagnosed with progeria at the age of two, and doctors put her projected lifespan at thirteen years. She frequently travelled to Boston in the United States to receive new treatments. In 2012, her autobiography, titled ''Old Before My Time'', was published; it was co-authored by Okines, her mother Kerry, and contributor Alison Stokes. Television appearances Okines was the subject of television specials in both Europe and North America. Discovery Health aired a special titled '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stella McCartney
Stella Nina McCartney (born 13 September 1971) is an English fashion designer. She is a daughter of English singer-songwriter Paul McCartney and American photographer and animals rights activist Linda McCartney. Like her parents, McCartney is a supporter of animal rights and environmentalism, and uses vegetarian and animal-free alternatives in her work. Since 2005, she has designed an activewear collection for Adidas. Early life Stella Nina McCartney was born on 13 September 1971, at King's College Hospital in Denmark Hill, Camberwell, London. She is named after her maternal great-grandmothers (both of Linda's grandmothers were named Stella). Her mother, Linda Eastman McCartney, was of Jewish ancestry. As a girl, McCartney travelled the globe with her parents and their group Wings, along with her siblings: older half-sister Heather (who was legally adopted by Paul), older sister Mary, and younger brother James. According to her father, the name Wings was inspired by Stel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McCartney
James Louis McCartney (born 12 September 1977) is an English musician and songwriter. He has released several recordings in his own name and contributed to albums by his parents Paul and Linda McCartney. Early life James Louis McCartney was born at Avenue Clinic in St John's Wood, London on September 12, 1977. He is the son of songwriter and former Beatle Paul McCartney and his first wife Linda McCartney. He was named after both his paternal grandfather Jim McCartney and his father, whose full name is James Paul McCartney, as well as Linda's late mother, Louise Sara (née Lindner) Eastman. His mother was Jewish, meaning that he and his siblings are Jewish, but his father is the son of a Catholic mother of Irish descent. He spent the first two and a half years of his life on the road while his parents toured with their band Wings. After the band broke up in 1980, the McCartneys settled in Rye, East Sussex. He attended the local state secondary school, the Thomas Peacocke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Leadbitter
Michael Andrew Leadbitter (12 March 1942 – 16 November 1974) was a British writer, researcher, magazine editor, and a leading authority on blues music, who had an important role in the revival of interest in the blues, particularly in the UK in the 1960s and early 1970s. Biography Mike Leadbitter was born in Simla, India, but grew up in Bexhill-on-Sea, England. He attended Bexhill Grammar School, and began buying rock and roll and rhythm and blues records and magazines in his mid teens, often on import from the US. In 1962, with his friend Simon Napier, he formed the Blues Appreciation Society, which the following year led to the publication of a magazine, '' Blues Unlimited'', the first English-language blues periodical. He took on the role of reviews editor, and was particularly responsible for compiling discographies of major blues artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, and John Lee Hooker. Following his first research trip to the US in 1967, he compiled, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821), are published by Times Media, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' were founded independently and have had common ownership only since 1966. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. ''The Times'' was the first newspaper to bear that name, inspiring numerous other papers around the world. In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as or , although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. ''The Times'' had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020; in the same period, ''The Sunday Times'' had an average weekly circulation of 647,622. The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Hillman
Gordon Hillman (20 July 1943 – 1 July 2018) was a British archaeobotanist and academic at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He has been described as "a pivotal figure in the development of archaeobotany at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, hothrough his research, publications and teaching had a major influence on the field worldwide." Early life and education Hillman was born in Hailsham, East Sussex to Joyce (née Connett) and Albert Hillman on 20 July 1943. He was interested in plants from an early age; his father owned Knights, a local plant nursery. After leaving school, he worked as a field studies assistant at Alston Moor, Cumbria, and then at the Natural History Museum in London from 1960 to 1965. After studying agricultural botany at Reading University, in 1969 he went to Mainz in Germany to study archaeobotany with Maria Hopf. Fieldwork Hillman's research was underpinned by long periods of botanical and archaeological fieldwork. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
