More than a quarter take maths and chemistry while 12 per cent take physics. Nationally only 4.9 per cent of female A-level entries were for maths, 4.6 per cent for chemistry and just 1.5 per cent for physics.However, David Hart, of the National Association of Head Teachers, dismissed Mrs Hall’s arguments as “propaganda” and said her views were “outdated and old-fashioned”.. Kenneth Eugene Iverson, mathematician and computer scientist: born Camrose, Alberta 17 December 1920; Assistant Professor, Harvard University, 1955-60; scientist, IBM 1960-80; married (four sons); died Toronto, Ontario 19 October 2004. These languages enabled programmers to solve problems in an easy-to-use, high-level notation instead of the binary codes that computers used directly. Only a score of them achieved a permanent place – Kenneth Iverson’s APL was one of them.Kenneth Eugene Iverson was born on a farm in Alberta, Canada, in 1920.

He was educated in a one-room school house and taught himself a great deal of mathematics. During the Second World War, he served in the Canadian Royal Air Force as a flight engineer. At the end of the war, he took an undergraduate degree in mathematics at Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ontario.He then became a graduate student at Harvard University, where he completed a PhD under the supervision of Howard Aiken, a pioneer in the field of automatic computation. The head of the Girls’ School Association (GSA) provoked controversy yesterday when she claimed that mixed education may be “perilous” for girls as they feel intimidated by “domineering” boys in their choice of subjects.
Cynthia Hall, headmistress of the prestigious School of St Helen and St Katherine and president of the GSA, said she was infuriated by headteachers who claimed educating boys and girls together was “natural”.At the association’s annual conference, she released the results of a survey of 5,300 girls in 104 private girls’ schools which found that pupils at GSA schools were almost twice as likely to study physics or chemistry A-levels than the national average for girls.

Driving to the top of a mountain over open ground is inevitably going to cause damage to the countryside.”And when viewers see a man like Clarkson doing this it encourages them to try to do similar things. It is wrong for the BBC to promote such hare-brained and reckless behaviour.”John Mackenzie, the Earl of Cromarty and president of the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, said: “Top Gear turned down the land we offered them because it already had tracks. The former Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil today confirmed he has been appointed chief executive of The Spectator, whose editor Boris Johnson was sacked as Tory arts spokesman this weekend following publicity about an alleged affair. It was not calculated to encourage others to perform stunts.”The BBC has had to pay a Somerset council compensation after a truck smashed into a 30-year-old chestnut tree as Mr Clarkson watched. He also left a new Bentley stranded on a Devon beach, and Vauxhall demanded he apologise for his damning review of its Vectra.. This sets a precedent and it is going to encourage even less-disciplined individuals to act irresponsibly.”A Land Rover spokesperson said the vehicle was on an estate where off-road driving is frequently necessary, and special measures, such as hi-tech matting and metal frames, had been used to minimise damage to the hillside.