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BBC News - League Tables - The school league tables for primary and scondary schools, alongside the educational news and issues that affect them.

Centre for the Study of Comprehensive Schools - A charitable trust, based at the University of Leicester. It has membership in 2,000 schools, or half the secondary school population. Promoting good practice through training, conferences and a newsletter.

The Independent Schools Guide - Directory of independent schools and special schools from Gabbitas educational consultants. Includes an 'ask the expert' feature and FAQs.

Ofsted - The official body for inspecting schools. Provides links to school reports and official publications as well as a FAQ and contact details.

Which Boarding School - Company providing free advice on choosing a boarding school. Includes an online enquiry form.

The Boarding School's Association - The BSA represents over 500 boarding schools. Lists standards, publications, school search and contact details.

The Council of British Independent Schools in the European Communities. - Membership association of British Schools of quality in Europe, with suitable schools from elsewhere in the world as affiliate members. Includes a list of CORBISEC schools.

De La Salle Schools - Offer Christian education in a Christian community. Explains the aims of the founder and their projects in the developing world, and lists schools

Girls' Day School Trust - Provides information about 25 independent girls' schools. In addition the trust provides management services to schools and a scholarship and bursary scheme.

The Good Schools Guide - Guide to independent and state schools with mapping and searches by name, age groups and religion. Includes tabulations of examination data, contact details and links to Ofsted reports.

Hobson's Guide to UK Boarding Schools - A searchable database and A-Z list of schools, each with a description, photographs and links. Also an order form for school prospectuses.

A Guide to Independent Private Boarding Schools - A searchable guide on how to find the boarding school that best suits your child.

Independent Schools Council - The official site for schools belonging to the Independent Schools Joint Council - about 1,300 of the 2,000 plus independent schools. Includes search facilities.

The Independent Schools Directory UK - Covers 2000 plus independent schools. Offers basic information.

Independent Schools of the British Isles - Independent schools, day, boarding and STABIS schools. Search all 3,200 independent, fee paying and residential special needs schools.

Montessori Education UK - A guide to Montessori education and a list of accredited schools.

Joh Catt's School Search - Database with information over 5000 schools: independent, international, language and special needs. Also has a guide to school suppliers.

UK School Search - Find and contact private schools, boarding schools, public schools and special education.

Schoolsnet - Illustrated guide to every school, library of over 20,000 books, educational news, university guide and educational resources.

State Boarding School's Association - STABIS provides information on state schools that combine boarding facilities with free state education.

Specialist Schools Trust - Manages the Department for Education and Skills' specialist schools programme. List of specialist schools and city academies.

TES Schools Directory - Searchable database of all 33,000 primary, secondary, middle, independent and special needs schools. Each listing includes a description, number on roll, Ofsted report, and league tables.

UK Private Schools Guide - Directory of independent private schools, categorised by region. A brief summary of each school is given, showing contact details, age range and size.

UK Schools Website Directory - Database of school websites and email addresses, searchable by county, plus statistics.

Emetis Independent Schools Guide - A guide to independent schools, includes a resource directory, search service and advice guide.

AllTheSchools UK Schools Directory - Directory of schools in the South West. Includes addresses, term dates, performance tables and OFSTED reports.

Asquith Court Schools - 10 independent schools around the UK. Includes school locations, curriculum, news and contact details.

UK Boarding Schools - A guide to boarding schools. Includes general information, advice and links.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Schools "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield Schools It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Schools "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Schools In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Schools May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Schools For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur Schools If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Schools "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Schools I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan Schools "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Schools Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken Schools "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Schools "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei Schools Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom Schools Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Schools You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire Schools "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Schools I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Schools "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words Schools The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. 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