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5 unusual facts about An Education


Big Dam Film Festival

Friday night hosted locally produced short " A night in Woodlawn" and critically acclaimed An Education as the feature presentation.

Floyd Cramer

("On the Rebound" was later featured during the opening credits of the 2009 Oscar-nominated film An Education, which was set in England in 1961).

Lone Scherfig

In 2009, An Education, Scherfig's most critically lauded film, was released.

Lone Scherfig (born 2 May 1959) is a Danish film director who has been involved with the Dogme 95 movement and who has been widely critically acclaimed for several of her movies, including the Oscar-nominated film An Education.

Paul Englishby

He most recently wrote the score for "An Education", which debuted at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and for the Peep Show produced feature "Magicians" in 2007.


Bristol 404 and 405

A pristine maroon 405 is featured prominently, almost as a character itself, in the 2009 independent film An Education, directed by Lone Scherfig, which is a period film set in 1961 in the London suburbs.


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Akkaraipattu Muslim Central College

AMC College, an education provider for Muslim Community was founded in 1948 in the Green City of South Eastern Sri Lanka, Akkaraipattu.

Alexander Darnes

After the war and emancipation, Darnes gained an education; he earned his undergraduate degree at Lincoln University and earned his medical degree from Howard University in 1880.

Alexander del Mar

He lived for a short period of time in the United Kingdom with his uncle Manuel del Mar and there received an education in humanities from a private tutor, Arthur Helps (later knighted, becoming Sir Arthur Helps).

Andrea Pino

In response, Pino approached UNC alumna, Annie E. Clark, who also was allegedly mistreated, and began to research Title IX, a federal legislation which grants students the right to an education without sex discrimination, and the Clery Act which grants protections for sexual assault victims on college campuses.

Angier Biddle Duke

After a misspent youth, which included an education at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, he dropped out of Yale University in 1936.

Anna Ottendorfer

She contributed $40,000 to an educational fund, built the women's pavilion of the German Hospital, New York City, at a cost of $75,000, and gave $100,000 for the German Dispensary.

Anthony Burns

With proceeds that came from his biography, combined with a scholarship, Burns received an education at Oberlin College in Ohio.

Aurelio Saffi

He received an education in jurisprudence in Ferrara, but began political activity in his native city, protesting against the bad administration of the Papal legates.

Ayelet Shaked

In the army she served as an education coordinator in the Golani brigade.

Big History

An education project founded by philanthropist Bill Gates from his personal funds was launched in Australia and the United States, to offer a free online version of the course to high school students.

Bruce Dawe

He joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1959, initially as a trainee telegraphist but re-mustered as an education assistant.

Charley Trujillo

Charley was able to pursue an education through the G.I. Bill and working part-time jobs.

Ciarán of Saigir

Already a Christian, and of royal Osraige blood, he had determined to study for the Church; hence, he secured an education at Tours and Rome.

Cornell Notes

The Cornell note-taking system is a note-taking system devised in the 1950s by Walter Pauk, an education professor at Cornell University.

David Jay Reed

In 1975, he was hired as an education officer for the Art Gallery of Western Australia and worked full-time until 1988 when he went part-time to became an adjunct lecturer for the Department of TAFE (now Central Institute of Technology).

David Nobbs

Following an education at Marlborough College and Cambridge University, Nobbs wrote for many of Britain's comedy performers over the years, including Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howerd, Les Dawson and The Two Ronnies.

Deborah Kass

Her My Elvis series speak to gender and ethic identity by replacing Warhol’s Elvis with Barbra Streisand from Yentl: a 1983 film in which Streisand plays a Jewish woman who dresses and lives as a man in order to receive an education in the Talmudic Law.

Education in Scotland

In 2003, work began on an education reform program, to produce a new Curriculum for Excellence that would replace existing guidance on the school curriculum.

Edward Young-min Kwon

Prior to his career as a culinary chef, he had received an education at Gangneung Yeongdong College.

Élie Faure

Will Durant included Faure's 4-volume History of Art on his list of 100 Best Books for an Education.

Frank Atha Westbury

He grew up in the home of his foundry worker grandfather, William Bleasby but later told his family that he attended Tadcaster Grammar School near Leeds, an education that normally would not have been available to the son of a factory worker.

Gann Academy

Gann also makes use of FirstClass, an education email and communication program that facilitates communication between students and faculty and communication through conferences for class discussions.

Hiberno-Latin

St Gildas, the Welsh author of the De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, is also credited with the Lorica, or Breastplate, an apotropaic charm against evil that is written in a curiously learned vocabulary; this too probably relates to an education in the Irish styles of Latin.

Joseph B. Murdock

After an education in public schools in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, from the 4th Congressional District of Massachusetts on 26 July 1866.

Kahootz

Kahootz is an education multimedia construction toolset created by the Australian Children's Television Foundation.

Lakeside International Raceway

The fast and challenging nature of the circuit was an education for a generation of Queensland racing drivers and riders, from Will Power, Dick Johnson, Tony Longhurst and five time world motorcycle champion Mick Doohan.

Leon Gellert

After an education at Adelaide High School, he embarked on a teaching career; first as a student-teacher at Unley High School then at the University of Adelaide's Teacher Training College.

Loum N. Neloumsei Elise

She is a recipient of an Education Testing Certificate (International Testing and Training Programs) from Princeton, New Jersey.

Mario Barth

After finishing an apprenticeship as telecommunication electrician at Siemens in Berlin he started an education as actor, which he also finished successfully.

Mathland

Mathland was among the math curricula rated as "promising" by an Education Department panel, although subsequently 200 mathematicians and scientists, including four Nobel Prize recipients and two winners of the Fields Medal, published a letter in the Washington Post deploring the findings of that panel.

Military Use of Schools

Under Additional Protocol II, applicable during non-international armed conflicts, it is a "fundamental guarantee" that children shall receive an education, in keeping with the wishes of their parents.

Moothakunnam

Hindu Matha Dharma Paripalana (HMDP) Sabha operates an engineering college (SNM IMT), an arts and sciences college (SNM College, Maliankara), an education college (SNM B. Ed College), a teacher training center (SNM TTC, Moothakunnam), an industrial training center (SNM ITI, Moothakunnam), and a higher secondary school (SNM H.S, Moothakunnam), all within three kilometers of the village.

Nick Laird

In a January 2006 appearance on The Leonard Lopate Show, Laird explained how travelling out of Northern Ireland for an education in Cambridge had expanded his horizons and opened him up to opportunities that he believes would have otherwise been closed to him: "I met a Jewish person for the first time. I met a black person for the first time."

Nikita Zotov

Lindsey Hughes, a 20th-century historian, has criticized Zotov for giving Peter an education that did not teach what a future tsar ought to know.

No Crystal Stair

Fighting racism and sexism, Marion schools her girls in manners, English poetry and the need for an education; her elegant neighbour and rival (both women are in love with railway porter Edmund Thompson) teaches the children the ways of the street and their black cultural heritage.

Patrick Kennison

He co-founded Union Underground who played on Ozzfest 2001 and released an album An Education in Rebellion which sold 350,000 copies.

Penny University

As, indeed, wide-ranging conversations ensued therein, from the commercial (leading to the founding of, in London, Lloyd's of London, and in New York, the New York Stock Exchange) to the political, and the purely intellectual; the idea that one could acquire an education for the price of a cup of coffee, that is, a penny, took hold of the poetic imagination.

Peter Housden

After graduating in 1973, Peter Housden began his career as a comprehensive school teacher in Shropshire and worked as an education officer in three county LEAs before being appointed as Director of Education in Nottinghamshire in 1991.

Preston Lea

After receiving an education at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Preston Lea went to work for his father at the age of eighteen.

R2T

Race to the Top, an education initiative announced in 2009 by Secretary Arne Duncan

Ramón E. López

When he was a child his father gave him a telescope as a birthday present, and the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969 inspired him to seek an education in the field of Space Physics.

Sigri Mitra Gaïni

She has also studied Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, but finally she finished an education as school teacher.

Song Yoo-geun

Yoo-geun was offered an education by two of the most prestigious universities in Korea, namely the Pohang University of Science and Technology and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

SOS Hermann Gmeiner College

SOS Hermann Gmeiner College Dhaka is an education project of SOS Children's Villages, which is active in 132 countries and territories worldwide.

Teimoc Johnston

His father believed Judo, Kendo, Aikido, and Kyudo were essential parts of an education, so at age of 6 he began his lifelong study of Judo.

University college entrance program

A University College Entrance Program (UCEP) is an education program in Canada, designed for adults who were unable to successfully complete Grade 12 level courses, but wish to go into a post secondary education.

Winton Dean

After an education at Harrow and Cambridge, he became notable as a writer on music, particularly after World War II, when he published several works concerning the compositions of Bizet.