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Want to properly plug the UK’s north-south divide? Look to Germany | Larry Elliott

05-03-2023 12:04

Boosting spending power, increasing public funding for science and tech skills, R&D and infrastructure could workBritain has been struggling to find a solution to its north-south divide since the staple industries of the Industrial Revolution – textiles and coal – started to decline in the early 20th century.It is not a unique problem. Every sizeable country has richer and poorer regions, and from the US rust belt to what was once East Germany, geographical inequality is easy to

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Panic not. ChatGPT will help you write better but won’t take your job – yet | Torsten Bell

05-03-2023 11:00

Despite fears that AI will replace workers, research shows that in real work situations humans still have the edgeArtificial intelligence is getting everyone excited. It’s going to end or improve the world, depending on your optimism/pessimism. The latest hullabaloo was triggered by the release of ChatGPT – the progression of so called generative AI, which doesn’t just analyse data but actually creates new content (in this case written text).There’s been lots of speculati

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Heads warn parents not to back pupil protests spreading via TikTok

05-03-2023 11:00

Teachers condemn family support for trend in England and Wales that leads to school ‘stampedes’The TikTok videos show pupils throwing bins, tables and even urine. Across England and Wales, a handful of schools have been hit by protests against rules such as banning trips to the toilet during lessons or regulations against rolled up skirts.Schools admit they are extremely worried about the copycat protests that have erupted in the last two weeks, typically sparked by videos shared on

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Students at top London university urged to ‘snitch’ on striking lecturers

05-03-2023 09:00

Queen Mary accused of ‘turning students into spies’ to gather data on academics who did not reschedule missed teachingA prestigious London university has become the first in the country to use a “student snitch form” to encourage students to report striking staff, while threatening to dock full pay for 39 days if those named fail to reschedule missed teaching.Queen Mary University of London was branded the “worst university employer in the UK” by the Universit

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Urgent calls to end compulsory unpaid internships as students forced to quit due to cost of living

05-03-2023 00:30

Australia’s students ‘burnt out and disillusioned’ in vocational degrees, with hundreds of hours of unpaid work leading to high dropout ratesFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAcademics are calling for students to be compensated for compulsory internships to stem high dropout rates amid a cost-of-living crisis.Ruby Partland, a masters student in social work at RMIT, is required to co

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