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Cameron threatens benefit cut for truants’ parents
Parents whose children play truant risk having their benefits cut, the prime minister warns as he launches a tough approach in education.
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Steve Jobs in his own words
Steve Job’s motivational speeches are as famous as Apple’s products. One particularly well-documented speech given to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005 covered failure, mortality and hope.
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A-levels: Brian Cox, China, and the recession
More than 40 per cent more students took maths A-level this year than five years ago, but modern languages and general studies are in decline. Channel 4 News looks at why.
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Street riots: a crazy week of Britain’s worst and best
After the riots that shocked England, Channel 4 News Midlands Correspondent Darshna Soni reflects on a “crazy week” and asks was the behaviour really indicative of the breakdown of moral society?
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Students facing debts of £50,000
Students could leave university with average debts of more than £50,000 once higher tuition fees come into force, a new study finds.
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Student Loans Company took £22m in overpayments
The Student Loans Company took £22m last year from graduates who had already paid back their loan in full, Channel 4 News can reveal.
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Michelle Obama and school pupils visit Oxford
Michelle Obama takes school pupils to Oxford University to encourage them to aim high. But only just over 1 per cent of Oxford’s undergraduates are of black British origin, Channel 4 News learns.
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Spain’s protesters vow to continue demonstrating
On the sixth day of demonstrations against unemployment in Spain, protesters in Madrid and Barcelona tell Channel 4 News they will continue to protest despite a mooted ban.
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Tuition fees: row over places for wealthy students
The Government denies plans to let wealthy parents pay higher fees to secure their children a place at university, insisting that access must be based on “ability to learn, not ability to pay”.
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Tuition fees: will the system improve access?
Will more students from lower-income backgrounds be able to attend top universities under the new funding plans, despite maximum fees of £9,000? Channel 4 News checks it out.
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Up to 75 per cent of universities plan maximum tuition fees
Despite promises from the Government that English universities would charge the maximum tuition fee of £9,000 from 2012 only in “exceptional circumstances”, the opposite now appears to be the case.
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Most universities plan £9,000 tuition fees
As the deadline arrives for universities to tell the Office for Fair Access what tuition fees they aim to charge, a Channel 4 News map shows that the majority are looking at the maximum of £9,000.
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Mystery over murdered Brits killed in Florida
Police in Florida investigating the deaths of two young British men in a dangerous district say no drugs were found on the pair – but officers say they still don’t know “just why they were there”.
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Cable: ‘PM’s immigration rhetoric inflames extremism’
Business Secretary Vince Cable has criticised David Cameron’s rhetoric on cutting immigration, saying it risks “inflaming” extremism. His words have created a rift in the Coalition, says Gary Gibbon.
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Yale student dies in laboratory accident
As a chemistry student at Yale University is killed in a “true tragedy” while working alone in a laboratory at night, Channel 4 News looks at the safety rules for students at UK universities.