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My Favourite Teacher

I would like to say some words about my favourite teacher. It was my first English teacher Kira Alexeevna Bondarenko.

Many years ago when I was at the 5^th form I started studying the English language, and I could hardly think that English would become my profession. At that time specialized schools in teaching foreign languages just began to appear in Moscow. It was very prestigious to study at such a school, only the best pupils were selected.

As our secondary school was reorganized in a specialized school, we had to study hard to catch up the program. At first it was rather difficult for me to learn all those letters, new vocabulary and to pronounce the words and read different texts with proper intonation.

Once Kira Alexeevna asked me to come up to her study after the classes and gave me a couple of lessons in English. And suddenly I realized that it was really interesting and I could do my best to become a good student. That how it was.

Later when I was teaching English I came across some of her books for little kids, and I was very proud that the author of these books was my first English teacher Kira Alexeevna Bondarenko.

I will never forget my first English teacher.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DEAR Kira Alexeevna!

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Class size, teacher's payment and spending: which countries spend the most and pay the least in education?(The Guardian)

If you have a child in school in the developed world, there's only one place you can get comprehensive data on how their education is different to that in other OECD countries. It's called Pisa and it's published today. See how the UK, US, Germany, France and more compare.

Unless you're an academic or an educational expert, you may never have heard of Pisa. But, if you care about education, the Education at a glance report offers an unrivaled set of educational indicators that tell you not so much about how students achieve (although it does include that data) but how education systems differ across the developed world.

And this year covers the financial crisis which hit in 2008 - with data going up to 2009.

There is a tonne of information and data in there - we've extracted the key ones for you.

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As a percentage of GDP spending across all levels of education is up in the UK, from 3.6% in 1995 to 4.5% in 2009 in the UK, from below the OECD average to a level now higher than the latest figure of 4.0%. No country saw a steeper increase in spending on further and higher education than the UK.

Also, despite a decline in GDP between 2008 and 2009, expenditure on education grew by 10.5%-points, 2.2%-points more than the OECD average

Interestingly, the UK had one of the highest enrolment rates in early childhood and primary education among four-year-olds - but annual spending per pre-primary student is less than the OECD average.

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