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Education

Bad and getting worse: for students like me, the loan system is the disaster that never ends | Rohan Sathyamoorthy

06 February at 12:01 PM, via The Guardian

The current situation in England and Wales is akin to generational warfare – Martin Lewis is right when he takes ministers to task

As someone who receives close to the maximum student loan from the government each year, I try my best not to think too hard about the crushing financial burden I am going to carry into my postgrad years. After all, for those of us who need a degree to enter their...

Rising Send costs will ‘bankrupt’ eight in 10 English local authorities, leaders say

05 February at 20:24 PM, via The Guardian

Councils call on ministers to write off special educational needs and disability deficits that are predicted to reach £14bn in 2028

Eight in 10 English local authorities will be in effect bankrupted by rising special educational needs spending unless the government introduces significant reforms to the system, council leaders have said.

Councils have called on ministers to write off special...

Tesco sorry for putting up Welsh bilingual signs in Cornwall

04 February at 21:12 PM, via The Guardian

Campaigners say they appreciate attempt to use Cornish but mistake points to need for more access to language

Shoppers in Cornwall could have been forgiven for feeling bemused after a supermarket put up bilingual signs – in Welsh.

A branch of Tesco in Helston – about 200 miles from south Wales by road – pointed shoppers towards pysgod, which is Welsh, not Cornish, for fish. It also labelled...

Greenwich and Kent announce merger to become UK’s first ‘super-university’

04 February at 10:00 AM, via The Guardian

Formal approval given for new university group to operate from August, with both institutions keeping their names

The universities of Greenwich and Kent have confirmed they have been given formal approval to merge into the UK’s first “super-university”.

The merged entity will be the third-largest higher education institution in the UK, the universities said, and is consulting on being named the...

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