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A portrait of a young Theresa May: the ‘enigmatic’ student who wanted to roll back socialism
Even when Theresa May was at the local school she told fellow pupils that she wanted to be Prime Minister.
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Fees will be frozen at £9,250 a year, and that next year’s planned rise to £9,500 will be abandoned.
Across the country, half a million people are preparing to start their undergraduate degrees. On average, one in 10 UK undergraduates will drop out of university before their second year of study. But in some institutions, that figure is as high as one in four. FactCheck looks at which universities – and which subjects –…
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The government has announced a £1.3bn plan to expand the mental health workforce with a “challenging” recruitment drive. The aim is to help the NHS care for an additional one million patients by 2020-21, according to the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt. We put his claims to the FactCheck test.
It’s been 20 years since Tony Blair first introduced tuition fees. Since then, students have been lied to, misled and betrayed by politicians and political parties. FactCheck uncovers the long history of broken promises and political U-turns.
Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of U-turning on a pledge to scrap student debt. It follows a comment made during the election campaign, saying he would “deal with it”. But the context is important.
With a new crop of MPs entering the House of Commons, the media has celebrated “the most diverse Parliament yet”. There are now record numbers of women, ethnic minorities and openly LGBT MPs in the Parliament (although there is still under-representation of these groups). But how about other things, like education and occupation? Do our MPs’ social…
Even when Theresa May was at the local school she told fellow pupils that she wanted to be Prime Minister.
The headline is that we will be pulling out of the EU’s Single Market and will not remain a full member of the Customs Union either.
Britain’s biggest prison, HMP Parc, runs a groundbreaking reform programme reinforcing inmates’ links with their children to prevent re-offending. Channel 4 News has been given unprecedented access.
David Cameron is calling for reforms in prisons to combat high levels of violence, self-harm and re-offending.
Black graduates earn a quarter less than their white peers, new figures suggest. Rampant racism – or something more complex?
Students protest in London against a student loans system that already costs them some £40,000 over three years, and is set to become even more expensive, especially for those on low incomes.