domestic science
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Have we made a dog's dinner of teaching children how to cook?
; I'll never forget my first domestic science lesson. We made a cup of tea. The...curriculum at least twice a term, domestic science was shown the door, and the art of...cent of schools currently offering domestic science, now rebranded food technology, will...
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washday.(News)
; Royds Hall Grammar School believed that domestic science was not exclusively the domain of the girls, and here a boy gets his hands sudsy in the electric washer, watched by Mrs R Bamforth, senior mistress, and Mrs R Lockwood, domestic science mistress
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People DETECTIVE: Lost address has led to a 30-year search; Terry's hunt for friend from college.(Features)
; ...WHITLEY DOES anyone know Gwenda, the domestic science teacher from Bangor? If they do, Teresa...when they both entered the S L Calder Domestic Science College in Liverpool. Terry, who now...college days. Initially, she taught domestic science in Liverpool for three years, before...
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Letter: Your Say - Learning to cope ; In association with POST OFFICE
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Kitchen link?(Arts)
; RECENT work by Caroline Taylor is being displayed at the University of Glamorgan in Pontypridd. Domestic Science runs until December 14. For further details, ring 01443 482568.
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Letter: Your Say - Learning to cope; In association with POST OFFICE.(Letters)
; ...Mail, February 21) highlights the problem of lack of domestic science lessons in education. Linda Coley needs help in coping...cooking and budgeting I learned from my mother and in domestic science lessons at school. There are many Linda Coleys in society...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Dear Gerrie: Reader's letter.(Features)
; Byline: W E Leeder MY mate got a degree in Domestic Science. Actually it was a third degree - his wife came home and found he hadn't done the washing up. W E Leeder Sudbury, Suffolk
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Last night I had a terrible nightmare, one so vivid that I sat up,drenched in sweat. My bad dream took me back to the school domestic science block, where a row of terrified eleven-year-olds stood quaking in front of the cookery teacher.
; ...of baking fillsthe air, let me recount the reality of my domestic science hell.. When I first stepped into the school kitchens in...joined, only the 'lower' streamed girls were allowed totake domestic science. Those in the top streamsmyself included would study Latin...
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Cooking up a storm
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Ditch the junk.(Features)
; ...surrounding the demise in schools of what used to be called domestic science that children today are likely to be experts on fresh food...buying ingredients and the difficulty of hiring qualified domestic science teachers, local education authorities dispensed with classroom...
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