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Top English schools take in half as many Send pupils as average comprehensive

24 March at 02:01 AM, via The Guardian

School leaders believe some deploy a deliberate strategy to boost grades and improve finances, new research suggests

The top 500 secondary schools take in half as many disadvantaged pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) as the average comprehensive, in what is believed may be a deliberate strategy to boost grades and improve finances.

New research from the Sutton Trust...

Six students challenge Home Office visa ban on four countries

23 March at 20:00 PM, via The Guardian

Sudanese and Afghan students with offers to study in UK say government’s ‘emergency brake’ is discriminatory

The women banned from studying in Britain

Six students from Sudan and Afghanistan have accused the home secretary of racial discrimination and launched legal action to try to overturn a ban on them taking up university places in the UK.

The students – five from Sudan and one from...

‘The UK is saying the same thing as the Taliban’: the women banned from studying in Britain

23 March at 20:00 PM, via The Guardian

The Home Office has blocked new study visas for applicants from Afghanistan, Sudan, Myanmar and Cameroon. It means many women will miss out on life-changing opportunities – as five female academics explain

Six students challenge Home Office visa ban on four countries

Shahira Sadat was thrilled. She had received an invitation to interview for the prestigious Chevening scholarship. “I cannot...

‘Audiences told us we didn’t show enough teacher sex’: how we made Waterloo Road

23 March at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

‘In series one, it was bullying, drugs and alcohol. Twenty years on, it’s vapes, cyber-bullying and bloody energy drinks’

I was working on women’s prison drama Bad Girls when the idea for Waterloo Road came up. Bad Girls creators Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus had a fiery belief in social justice and did rigorous research. Those are often the foundations of successful serial drama. Ann had...

Study links children’s social media use with anxiety and depression in teenage years

23 March at 02:01 AM, via The Guardian

Researchers say lack of sleep could be a factor among young people interacting online for more than three hours a day

Children who are on social media for more than three hours a day are more likely to develop depression and anxiety as teenagers, according to research.

Experts said the impact was likely to be linked to a lack of sleep caused by using social media late at night, and that the...

Student debt eats away home deposit savings to tune of £2,000 a year, says Barclays

23 March at 02:01 AM, via The Guardian

Repayments also affect financial stability of nearly half of graduates, according to report by UK bank

People with student loans who are working towards a home deposit save almost £2,000 less per year than those without the debt, according to a new report by Barclays.

The bank also found that 44% of student loan holders claim that repayments limit their ability to build long-term financial...

Should the bank of mum and dad pay university debts?

21 March at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Those planning for uni in England and Wales this autumn can apply for student loans from Monday. Here are the options for families worried about debt

Our child is heading to university soon – should we try to pay their tuition fees upfront so they are not saddled with a debt for decades?

Our child is a recent graduate and their student loan debt is ballooning – should we help pay off some or...

‘Something I’ve never felt since Covid. It was scarier’: the shock and pain of Kent’s meningitis outbreak

21 March at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

How infections linked to a nightclub escalated into a public health incident requiring a national response is a puzzle experts are still grappling with

Tyra Skinner had already been violently sick three times when doctors at Kent’s William Harvey hospital realised something was badly wrong. The 20-year-old was rushed into critical care, racked with a pounding headache, a stiff neck and...

The Kent meningitis outbreak: what is happening and why?

20 March at 13:42 PM, via The Guardian

What causes meningitis, what the public health response has been and how the situation differs from Covid

The deadly outbreak of meningitis in Kent has fuelled concerns about how far the disease will spread and seen the return of people wearing masks and queueing for vaccines. The scenes are reminiscent of the Covid crisis, but meningitis is very different. Here we look at how the outbreak...

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