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Cost of living: schools struggle to keep children fed
A survey due out next week from a teaching union will reveal the impossible financial choices headteachers are facing.
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GCSE results: North-South divide widens
After two years of teacher assessments due to the pandemic, this year’s GCSE results day brought a predicted drop in the proportion of pupils getting top grades.
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Roe v Wade: Protests as Supreme Court overturns right to abortion
It was a decision that America knew was coming.
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Disabled actor to play Richard III at RSC
It is the first time the company has cast a disabled actor in a lead role.
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Tens of thousands of children absent from England’s schools, children’s commissioner says
Tens of thousands of children in England are persistently absent from schools, according to a new report from the Children’s Commissioner, including some who haven’t returned after the pandemic lockdowns.
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Government’s decision on exams is the right one, says education committee chair
We spoke to the chair of the education select committee, Conservative MP Robert Halfon.
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GCSEs and A-Level exams in 2022 to be graded more generously
Exams across Britain will be graded more generously this year to take account of the disruption to education caused by the pandemic.
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Credit Suisse boss resigns after breaching Covid rules
Novak Djokovic isn’t the only person in the world of tennis to fall foul of Covid rules.
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Vulnerable children left at risk of harm for too long, say Ofsted
Too many vulnerable children have been left at risk of harm for far too long, according to Ofsted Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman.
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Jamie Oliver on schools meals crusade again
15 years after his first crusade to improve school meals, Jamie Oliver is again warning that too many schools are dishing out junk food, fizzy drinks and sweets, while levels of child obesity are on the rise.
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Students at all-female Cambridge college to be given fertility lessons
Students at an all female Cambridge college will be given lessons on fertility – after the college’s new president said she wanted to stop young women “forgetting to have a baby” until it was too late.
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Anti-vaccine campaigners targeting secondary schools after jabs go-ahead for 12-15s
New figures show that one in 20 young people at secondary school in England are estimated to have had coronavirus last week.
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Freshers week: How students and universities are coping after Covid disruption
We were joined by Professor Peter Slee, the vice chancellor of Leeds Beckett University, and by Stephanie Macaulay, a third year student in the business school at Leeds Beckett.
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Universities reopen their doors after Covid causes worst disruption since WW2
Over the next two weeks in Leeds, more than 70,000 students will arrive at the city’s five separate universities.
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Drive to tackle inequality ‘put off track a bit’ by pandemic, education minister says
We spoke to Education Minister Gillian Keegan and began by asking how much confidence there should be in today’s results.