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Sleepy Teens, Early Classes: Your Comments
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Last week, we talked about the conflict between sleepy teenagers and early morning classes. Many people commented on our website and Facebook page.For example, Damla Ece in Turkey wrote: I agree with the idea of starting lessons later so teenagers can feel better in the morning. 

But sleeping more than seven hours can be wasting time for students.
Tran in Vietnam disagreed: I think teenagers, on the average, need eight to ten hours of sleep everyday. It's useless trying to force them to concentrate while they can't concentrate.





School arts to be hit by cuts
The government's axe on arts spending will have a devastating effect on culture and creativity in schools.By the time Dan Evans started secondary school, he had already been in trouble with the police for arson. For him, school was a "boring place where you sat down and looked at boring textbooks", and his attendance suffered as a result. "I didn't think I'd amount to much," he says.Ten years on, he works part-time as a dance instructor, has an offer of a place at university, and dreams of starting his own performing arts company. Discovering a passion for the arts changed everything, says Evans, who is now 20. While he displayed a natural aptitude for dance, until he started at Brockhill Park school, in Hythe, Kent, he had never had the opportunity to explore that interest.



University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the third oldest surviving university and the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Although the exact date of foundation remains unclear, there is evidence of teaching there as far back as the 11th century. The University grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. In post-nominals the University of Oxford was historically abbreviated as Oxon. (from the Latin Oxoniensis), although Oxf is nowadays used in official University publications.
After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled north-east to Cambridge, where they established what became the University of Cambridge. The two "ancient universities" have many common features and are often jointly referred to as Oxbridge. In addition to cultural and practical associations as a historic part of British society, the 


two universities have a long history of rivalry with each other.

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