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 Daily news from the Canaries and the islands' biggest English language newspaper on-line Junior doc Fast-tracking Lanzarote school By Karl McLaughlin Lanzarote’s British school has made the UK headlines thanks to the success of one of its former pupils. 
The publication of her Lanzarote background prompted a flurry of media calls to the school, where staff are delighted at her success because it underlines not just the high standard of teaching but also its flexible approach, which has seen many bright pupils like Faye fast-tracked by being allowed to skip a year or two. Faye completed the first nine year-groups of schooling in just six years because her phenomenal rate of learning was soon identified as being 50 per cent faster than the normal outstanding pupil. School head Roger Deign told Island Connections the fast-tracking is ‘something we do a lot’ and the practice has merited attention from, among others, the Times Education Supplement (TES) which ran a feature a few years ago on the achievements of pupils like Faye and her colleague Cecil Remmler, who got 12 GCSE’s at grade C or above at the tender age of just 13. “In addition to the youngest doctor I think we can also claim Britain’s youngest qualified vet, who left here in 2000 to study at Bristol University” says Deign, who is extremely proud of the Hispano Británico’s record of channelling its pupils to top UK universities well ahead of time. Recent examples include Julian Kadow who entered Bath University to study Chemical Engineering when he was still 16 years of age. Julian was also awarded a certificate by Cambridge for obtaining the highest mark in the Spanish region for his exam in German Literature. Deign is equally proud of the achievements of non-English mother tongue pupils who more than make the grade. “One young lad from the local fishing village here had never set foot outside Lanzarote in his life before heading to Oxford University” recalls the head of the 287-pupil school, whose make-up has changed considerably in recent years. As Deign explains, “the British population has been decimated with the taming of timeshare, the all-inclusive hotels strangling the bars and the recent financial crisis. This year’s enrolment was 47 per cent Spanish, 26 per cent British, and the rest German, Irish, Indian, etc”. Still, there have to be some downsides to early achievement. Faye Hill’s first bid to enter university was blocked on age grounds and she had to look for a traineeship with the Health Service to put her time to good use until she turned 17, when she was accepted on her five-year degree course at Manchester, although she soon found that some places were out of bounds: licensing laws meant she could not use the student’s union during her first year and her young age also caused problems with her first mobile phone contract.
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